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Italien kehrt nach über 20 Jahren zur Atomkraft zurück
zurückNach mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten kehrt Italien wieder zur Atomkraft zurück. Die italienische Regierung werde in dieser Legislaturperiode mit dem Bau mehrerer moderner Atomkraftwerke beginnen, kündigte der Minister für wirtschaftliche Entwicklung, Claudio Scajola, heute vor dem Arbeitgeberverband Confindustria an.
Eine Rückkehr zur Atomkraft sei unvermeidbar, sagte Scajola. Die im April neu gewählte Rechtsregierung von Ministerpräsident Silvio Berlusconi hatte im Wahlkampf angekündigt, wieder Atomkraftwerke bauen zu wollen.
Es sei an der Zeit, dass Italien zur Atomkraft zurückkehre, da das Land in seiner Energieversorgung zu sehr vom Ausland abhängig sei, sagte die Präsidentin des Arbeitgeberverbandes, Emma Marcegaglia. Im Jahr nach dem Unfall im Atomkraftwerk von Tschernobyl in der Ukraine im April 1986 hatte Italien per Referendum die Abkehr von der Atomkraft beschlossen und seine vier AKWs vom Netz genommen.
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22 May 2008
Japan's Toshiba Corporation expects orders for at least 33 nuclear power reactors by 2015, and plans to expand all its nuclear businesses over the period to 2020, according to the company's president.
The predictions were made earlier this month in Strategies for Growth 2008, the company's outline of the business directions planned for all its divisions. In a question and answer session, the company said that 33 units could be a conservative estimate, adding "we believe it is possible that the number of orders might increase." The Toshiba presentation does not say where it expects the orders for 33 units to come from but highlights the US, China, South Africa and the UK as countries with plans for new projects and where it is making sales efforts. The company plans to more than double its current annual sales target for the nuclear division, to ¥1 trillion ($9.6 billion) in 2020.
In a presentation by Toshiba president Atsutoshi Nishida the company claimed that it has already received orders for ten AP1000 units – four in China and six in the USA, plus being named as prime contractor in an Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for the construction of two ABWR units at South Texas Project in the USA. (In fact, the six US AP1000 "orders" are an EPC contract for Southern Co's two units at Vogtle, plus orders for long lead time materials for a further four units.)
Early construction work on the Chinese AP1000 units is already under way, but none of the US units referred to in the Toshiba presentation has yet received a construction go-ahead. In total Combined Construction and Operating Licence (COL) applications have been lodged with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for ten AP1000s and two ABWRs, with a further six AP1000 applications currently planned. Toshiba says that it also expects the number of ABWRs planned to increase.
On the back of the expected orders, Toshiba says it should be able to shorten the time taken to pay off the debt from its 2006 acquisition of US nuclear company and reactor builder Westinghouse to 13 years instead of the initially anticipated 17 years.
The company's presentation outlined the expansion measures it is taking within its nuclear energy businesses to support the anticipated growth. These include expanding the Isogo Nuclear Engineering Center, mergers and acquisitions to reinforce its engineering operations, and a reported ¥50 billion ($480 million) capital investment to enhance its manufacturing and construction capacity through Keihin Operations.
The company also says it intends to expand its activities at both the front and back ends of the nuclear fuel cycle, including accelerating expansion into uranium production and enrichment, and developing its reprocessing activities both at home and overseas.
ich lass das mal kommentarlos stehen... :)
Auch Italien war mal strikter Gegner der Atomkraft (und ist etwas schnell nach Tschernobyl ausgestiegen).
Der Anstieg der Energiepreise, Benzin, Heizen, Strom, Lebensmittel - hat in Italien zu einem UMDENKEN geführt.
Berlusconi hatte schon VOR der Wahl das zurück zur Kernenergie angekündigt - und ist damit glatt wieder gewählt worden.
Auch in Deutschland schwindet mit jedem Cent Anstieg der Benzinpreise die Mehrheit in der Bevölkerung gegen die Kernenergie.
Die Bundesregierung WEISS das und muss einfach nur abwarten, den Ausstieg verzögern. In allerspätest 2 Jahren ist der Ausstieg KEIN THEMA mehr in Deutschland, vermutlich eher früher.....(siehe Merkel).
Atomkraftsbetreiber, solche, die es (wieder) werden und die entsprechenden Länder MÜSSEN sich jetzt langfristig die Versorgung sichern. Forsys, Powertech, Uranerz und andere werden davon stark profitieren. hier heisst es einfach weiter starr fest halten und sich nicht vom auf und ab verrückmachen zu lassen.
We also watch the financing markets very closely and had noted the recent financing news was regarding cancelled offerings and those which came in lower than expected or on unfavorable terms. When we saw companies willing to go shopping for competitors we knew something was up, and it seems to be a rising tide. Currently we have Frontier Pacific (FRPMF.PK) as the target of a buyout and Khan Resources (KHRIF.PK) attempting a takeover of Western Prospector (WEPGF.PK). In Australia, where there are numerous uranium explorers with market caps under A$20 million, many companies have been selling stakes at or above 10% of the shares outstanding to outside investors.
Theinvestar's Canadian Uranium Average is up strongly since early May with strength from all segments, but the largest gains coming from the near-term producers and beaten down juniors. The index has held support recently and just broke out of overhead resistance with yesterday's stellar returns.
The uranium equities did indeed turn on a dime in early May led by near-term producers such as Continental Precious Minerals (CTPMF.PK), Laramide (LMRXF.PK), Mawson Resources (MWSNF.PK), Powertech Uranium (PWURF.PK), UEX Corp. (UEXCF.PK), Ur-Energy (UREGF.PK) and explorers which were badly beaten down including JNR Resources (JNRRF.PK), Santoy Resources (SANRF.PK), and Universal Uranium (UULFF.PK). Denison Mines Ltd. (DNN) has performed quite well among the current producers with Cameco (CCJ) and Paladin (PALAF.PK) rising as well. True the sector was brutally beaten following the sub-prime mess as hedge funds sold physical stocks of uranium on the spot market pushing the price down and then fund after fund (hedge funds as well as mutual and other investment vehicles) dumped shares as the market trend took us lower and lower. The selling by these funds was illogical as the spot price was roughly 50% above where they began accumulating their investment positions in the equities and the funds which did not have margin requirements needing to be met (think mutual funds, etc.) sold because their positions were down. With the lack of volume it was easy to note where funds were liquidating positions in some of these thinly traded securities and according to our notes, some of these sales actually marked the lows for the securities being traded.
With money trickling back into the market now that the sub-prime crisis fears have largely been averted and investor confidence up, it seems that many of the speculative niche investment strategies of years past are heating up again. Solar stocks have seen a renewed interest after getting clobbered earlier this year and even the hated ethanol players are seeing some buying now. Oil is at all-time highs and the likes of Goldman Sachs and T. Boone Pickens have indicated that it should go higher this year with $141 and $200 being their price targets respectively.
We saw the number of reactors on order/planned rise by nearly 25% this year already with growth coming from across the world. We have the 'old money' of the world (the Western Nations- Canada, France and the U.S.) and the 'new money' (Asia, the Middle East and South America) both striving to add nuclear generating capacity with both anticipating plans for further reactor build-out.
The news is great for long-term investors, and by picking the stocks of companies with resources providing good opportunity for extraction investors could profit handsomely. We would caution those interested to always remember that stocks rise on what we call the 'hopes and dreams' factor and tend to fall on 'realization' factor. Even for those companies achieving their goals, sometimes it does not translate into amazing gains after the speculators dramatically exit. With that said, if the world does move away from fossil fuels powering the vehicle fleet, then one would have to imagine that uranium has a bright future based on its ability to generate large quantities of electricity output and its lack of CO2 emissions.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/78417-uranium-red-hot-yellow-cake
The box that has been such a confining feature of the Index action for so many weeks has been decisively broken, on the up side. The Index made a sharp upside move, and with significant volume action. All looks gung-ho for a good rally, maybe even a reversal of long term trend although that will still require much more work. However, let's calm down for a few minutes and see exactly what the charts and indicators are really telling us.
The Merv's Daily Uranium Index closed higher by 14.10 points or 4.81%. Even taking into account that yesterday was a holiday in Canada, where most of our stocks trade, that was a good day's work. There were 38 daily winners, 10 losers and 2 unchanged. Of the five largest stocks it almost goes without saying that they all closed higher. Cameco gained 3.0%, Denison gained 8.1%, First Uranium Gained 0.2%, Paladin gained 5.2% and Uranium One gained 9.5%. The best gainer was Fronteer Development with a gain of 22.8%. There were two others within a couple of decimal % of that. The worst performer was Altius Energy with a loss of 6.5%.
As mentioned above, the Index still has some ways to go to affect the long term but the intermediate term has continued its positive transformation. The Index is well above its intermediate term moving average line and the line has just turned into the up side. As the chart shows, the momentum indicator is pointing almost straight upwards but is still slightly below its neutral line in the negative zone. It is, however, well above its positive sloping trigger line. As for the volume indicator (not shown) it is moving higher at a rapid rate. It is just about to breach its previous high set during the late February action. All in all, despite the momentum not yet in its positive zone, the charts and indicators sum up to an intermediate term BULLISH rating for the first time since last November.
Both the short and immediate (or very short) term are confirming the latest positive information. On the short term the Index is above its positive moving average line while the momentum indicator is continuing to move sharply higher in its positive zone, above its positive trigger line. It is, however, getting close to entering its overbought zone at which point we could start to expect some reaction to the move. The day's volume action was the best in several weeks. The short term can only be rated as BULLISH .
As for the immediate term direction, that is up, up and away. Although the Stochastic Oscillator is the more aggressive momentum indicator that I use for my analysis it is still some distance from its overbought zone. Further away than the short term momentum from its overbought zone. On the other hand the SO has a habit of moving a lot faster than the RSI and may enter its overbought zone first, although it really doesn't matter which gets there first. The immediate direction of the Index continues to be to the up side.
It's times like this when the tables of technical information and ratings really come in handy to gauge which stocks may be the better upside plays. Tomorrow evening the daily version of the table gets posted. The short term info in the daily table may be used for short term action as it is quite accurate, at least as of the Wednesday data. In the weekly table one should not use the short term information for anything other than confirmation of the intermediate or long term trend. Using weekly data is not very good to get short term trading information. As I had mentioned when the daily table was introduced, the indicators are the same as those I use for my daily commentary.
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article4785.html
Nicht schlecht bis jetzt. Mal sehen was hier heute noch geht! Freu!
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