Kirsty Gogan
Kirsty Gogan is the founder and managing partner of TerraPraxis, is an internationally sought-after advisor to governments, industry, academic networks and NGOs. Kirsty is an expert who has traveled the
Category: Nuclear competitiveness
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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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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Will Nuclear finally be “in the Green” with Bitcoin?
Nuclear’s detractors like to argue that nuclear’s 100% carbon-free energy is not clean and so cannot be accepted as a “renewable” energy source since its fuel requires the mining of
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Nuclear-Powered Research Superyacht
Earth 300 is envisioned to be a nuclear-powered gigayacht with 22 state-of-the-art laboratories and a 13-story “science sphere,” that will be used as a research and exploration vessel, designed to
Sec. Granholm affirms critical need for nuclear
Jennifter Granholm, the Secretary of Energy, gave a keynote speech at the start of the Annual ANS meeting this week. Her words to an audience of tens of thousand were
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Wyoming explores replacing coal with advanced nuclear
Wyoming Governor, Mark Gordon, together with a broad coalition of high-ranking federal, state and industry partners, announced that Bill Gates’ advanced nuclear venture, TerraPower, selected Wyoming to be the state
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