the Nuclear Fuel Working Group’s Strategy to Restore American Nuclear Energy Leadership,

Compared to the two countries, the U.S. has also fallen behind on global sales of nuclear technology. “Civil nuclear reactor vendors from the United States have competed poorly in recent decades in the global new build market,”

The recommendations are meant to address growing concern in Washington that the United States has ceded its global leadership in nuclear technology in recent decades, and to boost domestic nuclear power producers and uranium miners suffering from a lack of investment.

The U.S. oil industry was already struggling to satisfy investors unhappy with weak returns, even as the United States surged to become the world’s largest oil producer in the last few years.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI dropped 2.44% to end at 23,650.44 points, while the S&P 500 .SPX lost 1.79% to 2,823.16.

The project (4,560 MW), when fully operational at the end of 2022, will not only create the largest power plant in American but the largest generator of carbon-free power in the country as well.

Energy efficiency is critical for the benefit of utilities, end energy users, and the environment.

U.S. Rig Count is down 73 rigs from last week to 529, Canada Rig Count is down 5 rigs from last week to 30

U.S. petroleum demand declined to 19.4 million barrels per day (mb/d) in March, which was a 4.6% decrease from February

The U.S. renewable energy sector has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, with more than 106,000 U.S. workers losing their jobs last month,

the pan-European STOXX 600 index rose over 1% in early trade, spurred by a drop in the virus death tolls in both Spain and Italy and reassuring statements from two of the continent’s big budget airlines about their survival prospects.

U.S. total industrial production fell 5.4 percent in March, as the COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019) pandemic led many factories to suspend operations late in the month.

"США, Канада, Норвегия и другие страны-производители нефти исходя из тех заявлений, которые сделали министры энергетики других стран, их общее сокращение с мая по июнь может составить от 15 до 20 млн баррелей в сутки", - сообщил глава Минэнерго России.

Crude oil production from the major US onshore regions is forecast to decrease 183,000 b/d month-over-month in April from 8,709 to 8,526 thousand barrels/day, gas production to decrease 869 million cubic feet/day from 84,027 to 83,158 million cubic feet/day .

The Australian dollar rose 0.7% to $0.6432, the New Zealand dollar firmed 0.6% to $0.6131 and the pound added 0.4% to $1.2562 - their strongest since mid-March.