Green Party of Finland backs nuclear
The Green Party of Finland has voted to add several pro-nuclear points to their party manifesto which include support for existing reactors and SMRs. This is the first green party
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Newsom tells L.A. Times editors that he’s reconsidering the Diablo Canyon closure
Governor Gavin Newsom, a consumate politician, finally is willing to declare his support for Diablo Canyon, something he has long refused to do. As the L.A. Times reports in an
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Is the NRC hostile towards innovators?
Robert Bryce writing in Forbes, raises the question . . . though in not so many words. Comparing the NRC’s treatment of Oklo to the galloping progress that the Chinese
New Nuclear Capital reflects nuclear’s paradigm shift
Nucleation Capital founder and managing partner, Valerie Gardner, joined an impressive roster of virtual speakers at the 2021 New Nuclear Capital conference, December 8-9, 2021, focused on the financing necessary
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The costs of closing nuclear plants during a climate battle
Following the release on Nov. 8, 2021 by Stanford University and MIT experts of an independently funded assessment of the costs to California of the 2018 decision to prematurely close
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A plan to convert coal-fired power plants to advanced nuclear—efficiently
Bryden Wood has revealed plans to repurpose the world’s coal-fired power stations to house modular nuclear reactors as part of a ‘major initiative’ to decarbonize the energy sector. “Repurposing Coal”
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Nuclear—Best Climate Solution by Far
Opinion authors Andrew Fillat and Henry Miller are highly critical of how politicians have handled addressing climate change. Whether it is a lack of critical thinking among politician or whether
Amazon, Ikea and others commit to zero-emission shipping by 2040
An initiative organized by the Aspen Institute helped Amazon, Ikea, Unilever, Michelin and Patagoniz to pledge that they won’t use shipping companies which allow emissions by 2040. Shipping the world’s
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FT editors urge nuclear adoption to avert ‘hell on earth’
Anyone who read the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment’s Working Group 1 report, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis, found it very disturbing. The editors of the Financial Times editors used
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Bitcoin partners with nuclear for clean power
Bitcoin, which already uses more energy than all of Argentina and which has been found by researchers to cause $.49 in environmental and health impacts for every $1.00 in mined
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