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Category: Nuclear R&D

Investments in nuclear energy could help solve the economic and climate crises

February 10, 2021February 27, 2021 by admin

Biden can solve multiple problems facing the U.S. by investing in clean energy climate solutions, according to Todd Allen and Suzy Hobbs Baker—and he appears on track to do so.

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Bill Gates’ Green Premium

February 8, 2021February 15, 2021 by admin

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

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Stimulus deal provides $11 billion in new funding for nuclear

December 29, 2020December 29, 2020 by admin

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

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Boris Johnson’s green plan puts advanced nuclear in top three

November 17, 2020November 20, 2020 by admin

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

October 21, 2020October 22, 2020 by admin

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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Making Nuclear Energy Cool

October 17, 2020October 27, 2020 by admin

Kärnfull Energi is a new, hip and very climate-focused Swedish utility that recently launched offering Swedes a 100% nuclear energy option. They are neither building nor generating new nuclear power,

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US Senate passes Nuclear Energy Leadership Act but reconciliation remains

July 27, 2020July 27, 2020 by admin

The Nuclear Energy Leadership Act (NELA, S.903) which had 22 bipartisan co-sponsors, was introduced as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 (NDAA, S.4049) by

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Nuclear ‘Power Balls’ May Make Meltdowns a Thing of the Past

June 30, 2020August 8, 2020 by admin

Wired Magazine dives deep on TRISO pebble fuel, which consists of particles of an alien-looking fuel with built-in safety features that will safely power a new generation of high-temperature reactors.

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Advanced nuclear history is made by Oklo

June 15, 2020February 3, 2021 by admin

Oklo’s combined license application, the first ever (non-light water) advanced fission technology, was accepted by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The application was submitted to the NRC in March

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Christine King named Director of Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear

January 23, 2020March 21, 2021 by admin

Christine King, a member of the Nucleation Capital team, was selected to serve as the director of the Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) initiative, effective Feb. 17. As

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