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New US Energy Secretary’s Idiotic Press Release

February 8, 2025 admin batteries, chris wright, clean power, Donald Trump, elon musk, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, lithium-ion batteries, natural gas, nuclear energy, policy & politics, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 15:08:43 +0000

Elections don’t matter. They’re all the same. That’s the nonsense you hear far too often. Elections do matter, and they result in massive differences in policy and in the future. The new US Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, has signed his first Secretarial Order. It directs the US Department of … [continued]

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New US Energy Secretary’s Idiotic Press Release

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2025 15:08:43 +0000

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U.S. Nuclear Generators Import Nearly All The Uranium Concentrate They Use

February 1, 2025 admin nuclear energy, uranium, us nuclear, us nuclear energy, us nuclear power

Credit to Author: US Energy Information Administration| Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 03:10:19 +0000

In 2023, U.S. nuclear generators used 32 million pounds of imported uranium concentrate (U3O8) and only 0.05 million pounds of domestically produced U3O8. Imports accounted for 99% of the U3O8 they used in 2023 to make nuclear fuel. Foreign producers predominantly supply the U.S. front-end nuclear fuel cycle, but federal policies have been implemented … [continued]

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Lightbridge, Oklo to Explore Co-Located Advanced Nuclear Fuel Fabrication Facilities

January 28, 2025 admin advanced nuclear fuel, Business, Fuel, fuel fabrication, full coverage, haleu, lightbridge, news, Nuclear, nuclear energy, nuclear innovation, nuclear recycling, nuclear supply chain, oklo, Research and Development, small modular reactors (smrs), supply chains, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 17:15:30 +0000

Two much-watched advanced nuclear fuel technology companies—Oklo and Lightbridge—will consider co-locating their commercial metallic fuel fabrication facilities to explore synergies and potentially accelerate innovation across the nuclear supply chain. Under […]

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New Solar Plants Expected to Support Most U.S. Electric Generation Growth

January 26, 2025 admin clean power, Coal, Fossil Fuels, nuclear energy, short-term energy outlook (steo), Solar energy, us coal, us nuclear, us renewable energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: US Energy Information Administration| Date: Sat, 25 Jan 2025 04:58:07 +0000

In our latest Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO), we expect that U.S. renewable capacity additions—especially solar—will continue to drive the growth of U.S. power generation over the next two years. We expect U.S. utilities and independent power producers will add 26 gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity to the U.S. electric power sector in … [continued]

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NextEra Eyes Restart of Shuttered Nuclear Plant, Partners with GE Vernova on Gas Power Expansion

January 24, 2025 admin Business, duane arnold nuclear plant, electricity reliability, energy infrastructure, energy security, Energy Storage, fpl, full coverage, Gas, ge vernova, Markets, natural gas generation, news, news and notes, nextera energy, Nuclear, nuclear energy, power, Power Demand, renewable energy, supply chains, Technology, trends

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2025 18:47:19 +0000

Facing a projected surge in power demand across the country, NextEra Energy is taking steps to potentially restart its shuttered 615-MW Duane Arnold nuclear plant in Iowa as early as […]

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Santee Cooper Seeks Proposals to Complete AP1000 Units at V.C. Summer Nuclear Site

January 23, 2025 admin advanced manufacturing, ap1000 reactors, Business, carbon-free power, data center energy demand, dominion energy, engineering, full coverage, History, inflation reduction act, news, Nuclear, nuclear energy, nuclear project revival, power, Santee Cooper, SOUTH CAROLINA, Technology, trends, v.c. summer nuclear station, Westinghouse

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:39:08 +0000

South Carolina’s largest power provider Santee Cooper has issued a request for proposals (RFP) aimed at finding a buyer—or visionary—to take on what remains of the Virgil .C. Summer Nuclear […]

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U.S. Department of Energy Announces Selectees for $107 Million Fusion Innovation Research Engine Collaboratives, and Progress in Milestone Program Inspired by NASA

January 18, 2025 admin nasa, nuclear energy, nuclear fusion, policy & politics, university of tennessee, us department of energy (doe)

Credit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 22:00:33 +0000

New Awards from DOE Will Support Acceleration of Commercial Fusion Energy Toward Viability The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $107 million in funding for six projects in the Fusion Innovative Research Engine (FIRE) Collaboratives, and that several privately funded fusion companies have completed early critical-path science and technology … [continued]

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Decarbonization Requires Robust Decision Making Frameworks

January 18, 2025 admin carbon emissions, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, electric trucks, Energy, Energy Storage, ev batteries, Fossil Fuels, green economy, green jobs, investment, Manufacturing, nuclear energy, policy & politics, renewable energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:09:46 +0000

An accidental advantage I have with my somewhat ADHD career and interests is that I’ve established patterns and filters for how I view the world that have been tested in multiple domains, often to destruction. I’ve published on the set a few times, but it’s worth returning to them. Looking … [continued]

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Enron Egg Parody Stunt Shows Us How Ridiculous Nuclear Promises Can Be

January 12, 2025 admin enron, nuclear energy

Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2025 04:57:01 +0000

Recently, one of my kids came to me telling me about the Egg by Enron. He’s too young to remember the original Enron, and he didn’t know that the new Enron website is a parody (more on that here). So, when he saw a video announcing the Enron Egg, a … [continued]

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