As a first step toward enhancing cooperation under WECAN, the USA and Japan announced a partnership with Ghana to support Ghana's ambition of being a first mover in SMR deployment in Africa and establishing itself as an advanced nuclear technology hub.

U.S. Rig Count is down 3 from last week to 768, Canada Rig Count is up 2 from last week to 212.

While US fuel now makes up 40% of Europe’s liquefied natural gas imports, it will only offset a fraction of the deficit from Russia next summer,

Lower Russian supplies sent European gas prices to all-time highs in late August though prices have come down sharply as storage sites across the EU were filled to close to capacity.

NuScale and Prodigy have been collaborating since 2018 under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) aimed at bringing a competitive North American SMR marine facility to market – a product that can generate safe, affordable, and reliable electricity at grid-scale at any coastal location worldwide.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories increased by 2.6 million barrels to 439.9 million barrels.

The Darlington New Nuclear Project will be a 300 MWe small modular reactor (SMR), which is to be built next to OPG's existing Darlington nuclear power plant in Clarington, Ontario.

In March 2021, scientists at DIII-D released a new concept for a compact fusion reactor design they said could help define the technology necessary for commercial fusion power.

U.S. Rig Count is up 2 from last week to 771, Canada Rig Count is down 6 from last week to 210.

The new agreement builds on the teaming agreement signed in November 2021 under which Hyundai E&C will perform the detailed design of the balance of plant and prepare the full plant construction specification for the SMR-160, which Holtec has been developing since 2010.

U.S. commercial crude oil inventories decreased by 1.7 million barrels to 437.4 million barrels.

“Working with Canadian entities, such as Laurentis Energy Partners, will allow us to learn from the first planned BWRX-300 deployments in the world, to accelerate project development in Poland.”

Wheeler River, in northern Saskatchewan, is host to the high-grade Phoenix and Gryphon uranium deposits which were discovered by Denison in 2008 and 2014, respectively.

UK seeking to build on its established fusion research and resources and help make fusion energy a reality within the next few years.

U.S. Rig Count is up 7 from last week to 769, Canada Rig Count is up 1 from last week to 216.