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The US Needs A Marshall Plan For Itself, Not For The Developing World

October 17, 2024 admin batteries, carbon emissions, China, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Coal, Electric vehicles, Energy, Fossil Fuels, FRACKING, green economy, green jobs, investment, natural gas, nuclear energy, offshore wind energy, Oil, policy & politics, renewable energy, shale oil, Solar energy, usa, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 22:41:16 +0000

In the past couple of months, an idea has been percolating through Washington and entities dependent on the United States’ good will that the US should reach back into history and create a Clean Energy Marshall Plan for developing countries. This idea is US economic wunderkind Brian Deese’s brainchild, or … [continued]

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Amazon Backs Massive Nuclear SMR Deployment: 5 GW with X-Energy, Agreements With Energy Northwest, Dominion

October 16, 2024 admin advanced reactor demonstration program (ardp), amazon climate pledge, Business, carbon-free power, clean energy innovation, dominion energy, energy northwest, finance, full coverage, news, Nuclear, nuclear energy, small modular reactors (smrs), Technology, triso-x fuel, x-energy

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2024 15:01:58 +0000

In yet another major set of deals spearheaded by a tech giant in support of nuclear power development, Amazon will back the deployment of 5 GW of new X-energy small […]

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Criticisms Of LNG Export Emissions Study Don’t Withstand Scrutiny

October 9, 2024 admin air quality, boats, carbon emissions, clean power, clean transport, climate change, Energy, Europe, Fossil Fuels, FRACKING, green economy, grid, investment, lng, marine energy, natural gas, nuclear energy, renewable energy, Shipping, the breakthrough institute, usa, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2024 03:58:33 +0000

For the past year, a preprint paper has been undergoing one of the most public, rancorous and extensive peer-review processes in the history of US academics. Is it on race relations? Tax cuts for the rich? Hollywood starlets? No, it’s on liquified natural gas (LNG) emissions of greenhouse gases. The … [continued]

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Refurbished Three Mile Island Payment Structure Is Not Quite What It Seems

October 7, 2024 admin clean power, constellation energy, green economy, microsoft, nuclear energy, three mile island

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:35:12 +0000

Two weeks ago, the news was filled with reports that Reactor 1 at the Three Mile Island nuclear generating station, which was shut down in 2019, will be refurbished and put back into service for another 20 years or more. Its sole customer will be Microsoft, which needs a lot … [continued]

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US Data Center Owners Turning to Old Nuclear Power

October 4, 2024 admin nuclear energy, three mile island, us nuclear energy, us nuclear power

Credit to Author: US Energy Information Administration| Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 14:34:57 +0000

Last month, Constellation Energy announced a 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) to provide electricity to Microsoft data centers in the mid-Atlantic region from the Unit 1 reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania. Unit 1 had returned to operation in 1985 after the 1979 partial meltdown that affected the adjacent … [continued]

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Three Mile Island Redux — Nuke Will Be Restarted To Power Microsoft Data Center

September 24, 2024 admin AI, Artificial Intelligence, constellation energy, data centers, microsoft, nuclear energy, policy & politics, three mile island

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 01:18:25 +0000

The surviving nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island will be restarted to make electricity to power Microsoft data centers.

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Ship Owners Confused About Decarbonization

September 21, 2024 admin batteries, biofuel, boats, carbon emissions, cargo shipping, clean power, clean shipping, clean transport, Electric vehicles, Energy, Energy Storage, Fossil Fuels, green economy, investment, Logistics, natural gas, nuclear energy, Oil

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 03:30:13 +0000

For three years, the International Chamber of Shipping has been running a survey of ship owners, covering multiple domains, including biggest risks to shipping, changes in shipping patterns with initiatives like friendshoring and most relevantly for this discussion, decarbonization. Recently they dropped their 2023-2024 survey, and the results indicate ongoing … [continued]

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ACU Secures NRC Permit to Build Research Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor

September 19, 2024 admin acu, advanced reactors, construction permit, engineering, Fuel, full coverage, kairos, molten salt reactor, msr-1 system, natura resources, news, NRC, Nuclear, nuclear energy, nuclear innovation, r&d, Research and Development, research reactor, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 19:44:37 +0000

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has granted Abilene Christian University (ACU) a construction permit to build its Molten Salt Research Reactor (MSRR) facility on the university’s campus in Texas. The […]

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BWXT Secures Contract to Advance Domestic Uranium Enrichment Pilot Plant

August 28, 2024 admin advanced nuclear reactors, Business, bwxt technologies, centrifuge, doe advanced reactor demonstration program, engineering, Fuel, full coverage, microreactors, national security, news, nnsa, Nuclear, nuclear energy, project pele, Technology, triso fuel, uranium enrichment

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2024 00:12:31 +0000

BWXT Technologies has won a contract from the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to evaluate options for deploying a centrifuge pilot plant that could establish a new domestic uranium enrichment […]

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China Still Hasn’t Learned Nuclear Scaling Lesson With New Approvals

August 25, 2024 admin carbon emissions, China, clean power, climate change, green economy, green jobs, grid, hydroelectric, investment, Manufacturing, nuclear energy, policy & politics, Solar energy, wind energy

Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2024 12:44:33 +0000

My feeds have been somewhat overflowing with hot takes on China’s recent approval of another 11 nuclear reactors. While coal approvals get a lot of attention — but not the 775 GW of shelved plants — and renewables just keep accelerating their deployments, dwarfing nuclear, China has approved 10 reactors … [continued]

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