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The World Won’t Get To Net Zero Emissions Without Nuclear Power

R-Squared Energy

Any time I write about nuclear power, it evokes passionate responses from readers. That was certainly the case following my previous article, Nuclear Power Could Cut The World’s Carbon Emissions In Half. There is always a contingent who are convinced that all we need is solar power. Where is nuclear power growing?

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ComEd Bribery Scandal Clouds Picture for Exelon’s Illinois Nuclear Plants

GreenTechMedia

” At the same time, Crane noted the company is “in the middle of trying to work through legislative strategy in Illinois” that would offer its nuclear power plants in the state an alternative path to earning capacity market revenue that is seen as a critical component of their future financial viability.

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EU Scientists and Politicians Clash Over Gas and Nuclear as ‘Sustainable’ Investments

DeSmogBlog

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. Between March and July 2020, nuclear lobbies met with EU representatives twice as often as they did in 2018, according to the non-governmental organization Reclaim Finance.

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Small modular reactors are a high-risk and expensive pursuit

Business Green

It comes at a time in which private sector funding for larger nuclear power stations is proving to be extremely difficult. The Rolls-Royce design is a 470MW pressurised water reactor, which is bigger than one of the reactors at Fukushima in Japan that suffered serious damage in the 2011 tsunami.

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Cancer Alley Activist Sharon Lavigne Among Goldman Environmental Prize Winners for 2021

DeSmogBlog

Kimiko Hirata, 50, fought coal plant construction in Japan following the 2011 meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. This year’s Goldman honorees have claimed a wide array of environmental victories worldwide. “Right now, it’s just at a standstill,” Lavigne said.

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Power to the People. Action Plan for 2017 & Beyond.

Earth Gratitude

Anti-Nuclear Power Plant Rally on 19 September 2011 at Meiji Shrine Outer Garden. Power to the People! Support a ban on nuclear weapons. Support clean politics and will work, through the power of social media, to promoting truth, and exposing lies and deceit as quickly as possible.

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The Future(s) of Fossil Fuels - 2020

Mr. Sustainability

They are doubling down on oil and natural gas and investing what amounts to pocket change in innovative climate-oriented efforts like small nuclear power plants and devices that suck carbon out of the air. State interests also intervene with political ambition, though Norway and China appear to be setting the stage.