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
Continue readingAmazon, Ikea and others commit to zero-emission shipping by 2040
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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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
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 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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California faces a very tough choice. Politicians and many environmental advocates would like to solve the need to eliminate emissions by building renewables as much as possible, and allowing natural
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China’s most recent five-year plan aims to increase Chinese nuclear power generation capacity to 70 gigawatts by 2025, up from 50 gigawatts. It appears that Chinese leadership has begun to
Bill Gates discusses what he calls the Green Premium, which is the extra costs that it takes for us to transition all the way to clean energy, from dirty energy
Congress has moved to fund clean energy—including $11 billion for nuclear energy and $6 billion for CCUS—and phase out a class of potent planet-warming chemicals and provide billions of dollars
Continue readingStimulus deal provides $11 billion in new funding for nuclear
The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected two teams—one led by TerraPower in partnership with GE Hitachi, building a 345 MWe sodium fast reactor with a molten salt energy
Continue readingDOE announces funding for three advanced reactor builds