LLNL Scientists Report Fusion Breakthrough
On Dec. 5, a team at Lawrence Livermore National Lab’s (LLNL) National Ignition Facility (NIF) conducted the first controlled fusion experiment in history to reach fusion “ignition,” which is believed
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Giving Thanks & Getting
anksgiving isn’t typically a time for making investment decisions . . . but it should be. Americans give thanks in many ways, notably through the national holiday we call “Thanksgiving.”
Celebrating A Nuclear Win and the Village that Created It
Diablo Canyon has been saved—for now! Rather than allowing this clean energy producing power plant to be wastefully decommissioned by those who simply dislike nuclear power, the California legislature, under
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California Legislators Vote To Save Diablo Canyon
California’s legislature, by nearly unanimous votes in both the Assembly and the Senate, agreed with Governor Gavin Newsom, to extend the operating life of Diablo Canyon. This was the result
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EU Taxonomy to Include Nuclear Energy
The EU Parliament ruled in a majority vote to keep nuclear energy in the Complementary Delegated Act for the EU’s sustainable Taxonomy. Set to enter into force on January 1,
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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10 EU countries call on Brussels to label nuclear energy as green source
With the eyes of the world watching, French President Emmanuel Macron led an effort, joined by nine other European nations, to call on the European Commission to recognise nuclear power
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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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France will spend 30 billion Euros to build small nuclear reactors
French President Emmanuel Macron announced that France will “pour 30 billion euros, or $34.6 billion, over the next five years into nuclear reactors, semiconductor plants and other strategic investments aimed
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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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