Amazon goes nuclear . . . !
Amazon has announced a signed agreement with Dominion Energy in Virginia to explore the development and construction of one or more small modular nuclear reactors to use to provide clean
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Big Banks Agree to Finance Nuclear
Fourteen of the world’s largest banks and financial institutions, including Bank of America, Citi, Parabas, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank, are pledging to increase their financial
Fossil fuels lose market share when electricity is done right
By Rod Adams, Managing Partner Mined hydrocarbons, also known as fossil fuels, have been the foundation of modern industrial society for several centuries. But most parts of society don’t depend
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Nuclear Tripling Pledge Announced
President Biden efforts to build a coalition pledging to triple the world’s production of nuclear energy by 2050 has succeeded! We’ve learned from several attendees at the COP 28 conference
Marc Andreessen’s Pronuclear Techno-Optimism
Marc Andreessen, Cofounder and General Partner of Andreessen Horowitz, a phenomenally-successful $35 billion venture capital firm dubbed “a16z,” has shared a litany of views of where humanity is and where
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Large Investors doubling down on Emerging Managers
Jessica Mathews, writing for the Fortune Term Sheet Newsletter, alerted us to the change just made by CalSTRS, one of the largest pension funds in the world. In “CalSTRS taps
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A Chat with ChatGPT
At the end of 2022, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT to the world and allowed anyone to sign up for a beta account and interact with this Artificial Intelligence. At that time,
Nuclear wins inclusion as “green” source for hydrogen
French energy minister Agnès Pannier-Runacher France appears to wins another round against Germany in the fight to have nuclear included as a clean energy source within EU Commission rules. The
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Menu of Nuclear Options Begins to Grow
Ontario Power Generation and partners signed a commercial contract to build a GE Hitachi-designed BWRX-300 small modular reactor (SMR). Several other groups are also looking at the BWRX-300, which at
X-energy pursuing public listing with $2B value
X-energy Reactor Co., a developer of small modular reactors, signed a definitive agreement to merge with Ares Acquisition Corporation (NYSE: AAC), a publicly-traded SPAC, to create a New York Stock
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