Welcoming new members of the nuclear family
Belarus and the UAE both started producing nuclear energy for their citizens for the first time in 2021. Belarus’ Ostrovets station saw its first reactor enter service, with a second
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Boris Johnson’s green plan puts advanced nuclear in top three
Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister, penned an oped in the Financial Times calling for a 12 billion-pount, 10-point plan to effect Britain’s green recovery. Johnson wants to create 250,000
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DOE announces funding for three advanced reactor builds
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
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US agency ends ban, will now finance advanced nuclear projects abroad
The US International Development Finance Corporation has ended a ban on financing nuclear power projects and “will prioritize the support of advanced nuclear technology in emerging and frontier markets,” the
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Lagarde puts fighting climate into agenda of European Central Bank’s bond program
Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, wants to use the €2.8tn asset purchase scheme in the fight against climate change. This marks the first time that the ECB
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Advanced nuclear energy primed for private investment
Rod Adams’ Atomic Insights blog published a piece in 2018 that asked an important question: “How do we match the ingenuity and enthusiasm of atomic innovators with the large magnitude
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Obama launched the Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear
Nuclear power generated 60 percent of carbon-free electricity in 2014 and the Obama Administration was committed to combating climate change using all means, including nuclear. The continued development of new
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Obama hosts White House Summit on Nuclear Energy
President Barack Obama hosted a White House Summit on Nuclear Energy just prior to his trip to Paris, France for the UNFCCC’s COP 21, the Paris Conference of the Parties,
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Khosla on technological black swans
Vinod Khosla, the famed tech venture capital investor, spent a considerable amount of time reflecting on the climate challenge and twenty years ago wrote the following on his blog, which
The First Atomic Age: A Failure of Socialism, by Rod Adams
This article was written in 1995 by Rod Adams, now a Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, who, at the time was the founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., having just
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