Tech Billionaires Rally around Nuclear
Billionaires are rallying around nuclear, according to a recent report from Pitchbook on venture investments in 2021. Notably, some of these billionaires, Elon Musk and Marc Andreessen, have spoken out
Category: Nuclear financing
NuScale to go public via SPAC
NuScale, a company that has developed an advanced and innovative form of light water reactor that provides clean, reliable power through a series of smaller modular cores, announced that it
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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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
Woke Nuclear
Author Maureen T. Koetz explores nuclear’s history and how air emission credits were the economic birthright of the nuclear industry since the passage of the 1990 Clean Air Act (CAA)
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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