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Emirates Nuclear Energy Corporation
The Emirates Nuclear Energy Company (ENEC, مؤسسة الإمارات للطاقة النووية) is the entity responsible for the deployment and ownership of Nuclear power plant, nuclear energy plants in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). ENEC was established by decree in December 2009 by the UAE President Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to address the country's growing demand for electricity while diversifying the nation's energy supply and delivering greater energy security. The organization is constructing the country's first nuclear energy reactors in Barakah nuclear power plant, Barakah, in the Western Region of Abu Dhabi, and by 2020, the site will be home to four APR-1400 nuclear energy plants. Unit 1 is scheduled to enter commercial operations in 2020, with one additional reactor coming online each year until 2020 - pending regulatory approvals. Construction for Unit 1 began in July 2012 following the first pouring of nuclear safety concrete, and for Unit 2 in May 2013, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Financial Times
The ''Financial Times'' (''FT'') is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic Current affairs (news format), current affairs. Based in London, the paper is owned by a Japanese holding company, Nikkei, Inc., Nikkei, with core editorial offices across Britain, the United States and continental Europe. In July 2015, Pearson plc, Pearson sold the publication to Nikkei for Pound sterling, £844 million (US$1.32 billion) after owning it since 1957. In 2019, it reported one million paying subscriptions, three-quarters of which were digital subscriptions. In 2023, it was reported to have 1.3 million subscribers of which 1.2 million were digital. The newspaper has a prominent focus on Business journalism, financial journalism and economic analysis rather than News media, generalist reporting, drawing both criticism and acclaim. It sponsors an Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award, annual book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DESCON Engineering
Descon ( ) is a group of companies headquartered in Lahore. It operates in the engineering, power and chemical sectors. Descon is active in UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman, Iraq, and South Africa. History It was founded in 1977 by Abdul Razak Dawood as Design Engineering and Construction Services (Descon) with an investment of . It received its first contract when Attock Refinery asked to set up a small refinery in 1978. In 1981, it received a four-year project of National Refinery which helped the company to expand. In 1982, Descon expanded to regional countries, where it helped a Saudi company and afterwards got a small project in Abu Dhabi. In 2007, Descon was included in the ''Engineering News-Records list. In 2018, Descon expanded its footprint into South Africa by acquiring 26 percent of Plant Design and Project Services (PDPS), an engineering firm there. List of companies Listed companies * Altern Energy Limited * Descon Oxychem Limited (founded 2004) U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu Dhabi Polytechnic
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Khalifa University
Khalifa University () is a research, innovation and enterprise-intensive public university located in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Khalifa University's current president, Professor Ebrahim Al Hajri, was appointed in July 2024. The university has 5,000 students. As of 2023, faculty and staff come from over 70 countries, and its student body is internationally diverse and co-educational. Campuses Khalifa University has two campuses in Abu Dhabi – the Main Campus and the Sas Al Nakhl Campus. The KU Main Campus is located on Abu Dhabi Island. At Main Campus, the central administration for the University is located and all general education courses are taught. It has 135,000 square meters and houses 105 laboratories, including aerospace and underwater robotics labs, 72 classrooms, sports center, retail and food outlets, and multi-story parking. A campus extension was completed in 2016 with a new building that won the award for best Cultural and Institutional Project at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AREVA
Areva S.A. was a French multinational group specializing in nuclear power, active between 2001 and 2018. It was headquartered in Courbevoie, France. Before its 2016 corporate restructuring, Areva was majority-owned by the French state through the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (54.37%), Banque publique d'investissement (3.32%), and Agence des participations de l'État (28.83%). Électricité de France, in which the French government has a majority ownership stake, owned 2.24%; the Kuwait Investment Authority owned 4.82% as the second largest shareholder after the French state. As a part of the restructuring program following its insolvency, Areva sold or discontinued its renewable energy businesses and sold its reactors subsidiary Areva NP (which has reverted to its original name, Framatome) to EDF. Its nuclear propulsion and research reactors subsidiary Areva TA (now TechnicAtome) was sold to the Agence des participations de l'État and its nu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Techsnabexport
Techsnabexport (), internationally known as TENEX, is an overseas trading company owned by Russian state-owned company Rosatom. Techsnabexport is an exporter of enriched uranium and a supplier of nuclear fuel cycle products. History In 1949, a Soviet technology export enterprise Technoexport, under the Soviet Union's Foreign Trade Ministry, created a special working group to supply equipment to uranium mines in Eastern Europe. In 1952, the working group was used as a platform to create the Technical Supply Office of Technoexport, whose customers included the Soviet-German joint venture Wismuth, the Jáchymov mines in Czechoslovakia, Quartzite in Romania, Kowarskie Kopalnie in Poland, and the Soviet-Bulgarian Mining Company. In 1955, Technoexport was reorganized and the Technical Supply Office was transferred to an export enterprise called Mashinoexport. On 17 July 1963, Techsnabexport was established as an export and import bureau. It supplied equipment to uranium mining com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rio Tinto Group
Rio Tinto Group is a British-Australian multinational company that is the world's second largest metals and mining corporation (behind BHP). It was founded in 1873 when a group of investors purchased a mine complex on the Río Tinto, in Huelva, Spain, from the Spanish government. It has grown through a long series of mergers and acquisitions. Although primarily focused on extraction of minerals, it also has significant operations in refining, particularly the refining of bauxite and iron ore. It has joint head offices in London, England and Melbourne, Australia.Suburbs & Postcodes " City of Melbourne. Retrieved 5 April 2010. Rio Tinto is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
URENCO
The Urenco Group is a British-German-Dutch nuclear fuel consortium operating several uranium enrichment plants in Germany, the Netherlands, United States, and United Kingdom. It supplies nuclear power stations in about 15 countries, and states that it had a 29% share of the global market for enrichment services in 2011. Urenco uses Zippe-type centrifuge, centrifuge enrichment technology. Urenco, headquartered in Stoke Poges, England, is owned one third by the UK government, one third by the Dutch government, and the final third equally by two major German utilities, E.ON and RWE. Group structure Ownership Urenco is owned in three equal parts by Ultra-Centrifuge Nederland NV (owned by the Politics of the Netherlands, Government of the Netherlands), Uranit GmbH (owned equally by German energy companies E.ON and RWE) and Enrichment Holdings Ltd (owned by the Government of the United Kingdom and managed by UK Government Investments). The company was set up in 1971, pursuant t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uranium One
Uranium One is an international group of companies, part of the management circuit of the TENEX Group of Rosatom State Corporation. Since 2013, it is a wholly owned subsidiary of Moscow-based Uranium One Group, a part of the Russian state-owned nuclear corporation Rosatom. History The company was established as Southern Cross Resources Inc. on January 2, 1997, in Toronto, Canada. It was listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange on August 25, 1997. In 2005, Southern Cross Resources Inc. reverse merged with South African Aflease Gold and Uranium Resources Ltd. under the name SXR Uranium One Inc. After merger, the company received secondary listing on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Aflease Gold and Uranium Resources Ltd. became a subsidiary of SXR Uranium One and was renamed Uranium One Africa Ltd. The main uranium asset of Aflease was the Dominion mine. The gold assets of Aflease were divested by 2008 and Uranium One Africa was sold in 2010 to Gupta family. In 2007, Uranium One Inc. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ConverDyn
ConverDyn is a general partnership between American multinational firms General Atomics and Honeywell that provides uranium hexafluoride (UF6) conversion and related services to utilities operating nuclear power plants in North America, Europe, and Asia. The company is the sole marketing agent of UF6 produced at the Honeywell Uranium Hexafluoride Processing Facility in Metropolis, Illinois. History From 1970 to 1992, there were two operating uranium hexafluoride conversion facilities in the United States. These included Allied Signal's Metropolis Works Facility and General Atomics' Sequoyah Fuels Facility in Gore, Oklahoma. Facing low conversion prices and the implementation of the Megatons to Megawatts Program, both companies recognized the forthcoming struggles surrounding excess market supply of conversion services. In 1992, Allied Signal and General Atomics agreed to close the Gore, Oklahoma facility and take joint and equal ownership of profits from Allied Signal's pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
KEPCO Nuclear Fuels , a power supply manufacturer in New York
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KEPCO may refer to: * Kansai Electric Power Company, a Japanese power provider * Korea Electric Power Corporation, a South Korean power provider **KEPCO E&C, a nuclear power design and engineering company, and subsidiary of the Korea Electric Power Corporation *Kepco Power Kepco, Inc. is a power supply manufacturer located in Queens, Flushing, New York City. It was founded in 1946 by physicists working on the Manhattan Project after World War II to design and develop electronic equipment for commercial and defense ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
