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Impressive Milestones Achieved on Chinese Advanced Nuclear Power Projects

POWER Magazine

6 that China’s independently developed high-temperature gas-cooled modular pebble bed (HTR-PM) reactor demonstrator had commenced commercial operation. The HTR-PM project was constructed […] The post Impressive Milestones Achieved on Chinese Advanced Nuclear Power Projects appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Fish clogging in cooling tunnels threatens power station safety

Envirotec Magazine

Hinkley Point Nuclear Power Station in Somerset, and the proposed construction site of Hinkley Point C, in February 2016 (image credit: jgolby / Shutterstock.com). This technology, developed by Fish Guidance Systems, is presented as best practice and is already installed at a nuclear power station in Belgium.

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European scientists group urges ban on new natural gas boilers

Envirotec Magazine

“The coming decade is decisive for keeping climate change in check, but fusion is still in its infancy, and neither CCS nor new nuclear plants based on current or small modular reactor technology can be built quickly enough.

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No, the Fukushima water release is not going to kill the Pacific Ocean

Envirotec Magazine

TEPCO subcontractors collect sea water samples near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in 2013 (image credit: IAEA Imagebank , CC BY-SA 2.0 Based on our collective professional experience in nuclear science and nuclear power, we have reached the same conclusion. In the Pacific Ocean there is 7.4

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Nuclear war would be more devastating for Earth’s climate than cold war predictions – even with fewer weapons

Envirotec Magazine

With the largest possible nuclear exchange between the US and Russia, new models suggest the ocean would cool so profoundly that the world would be thrust into a “nuclear little ice age” lasting thousands of years.

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Lost Decade: How Shell Downplayed Early Warnings Over Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

Lovelock’s main concern was not warming caused by the greenhouse effect, however, but the prospect of a precipitous drop in temperatures caused by the localised cooling influence of atmospheric pollution. But the authors theorised that localised cooling caused by air pollution might counteract the greenhouse effect.