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What’s the Role for New Nuclear Power in the Fight Against Climate Change?

GreenTechMedia

Small modular reactors (SMRs) — nuclear reactors using novel technologies to fit into much smaller and mass-producible packages than the behemoth nuclear power plants of today — are presented as a way of rapidly decarbonizing the grid in the face of an ever more pressing need to meet climate targets.

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Renewables overtake fossil fuels in 2020 as Britain's power grid enjoys 'greenest year' yet

Business Green

Nuclear power, meanwhile, provided 17.5 per cent of Britain's power last year, while imports accounted for just under seven per cent. per cent of Britain's electricity in 2020, rising to 56 per cent when nuclear power is included. per cent of Britain's power supplies, with coal supplying just 1.6

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A Firsthand Account Of Phoenix’s Record-Breaking Heatwave

R-Squared Energy

El Niño Plus Climate Change Why is this happening? The simple answer is climate change, and here in the desert I feel like we are getting a preview of things to come. But I still have friends who don’t accept that manmade climate change is real. power plant. power plant.

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'Falling like dominos': Renewables records continue to topple across Europe

Business Green

On April 30th, Spain's renewable generation reached a record 74 per cent share, an increase of 23 percentage points on the annual average that resulted in nuclear power output being dialled down to make room for peak renewable power generation.

Europe 101
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EIB invests nearly half a billion euros in major German grid expansion plan

Smart Energy International

According to the EIB, there has recently been a significant increase in the renewable energy available in the northern parts of Germany near the North Sea and the Baltic Sea, while several thermal and nuclear power plants in Bavaria have been shut down. 9th loan from EIB to TenneT. Signing of the loan. Courtesy R.Harris/EIB.

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Canadian LNG Will Stall Asia’s Shift to Renewables, Energy Experts in Asia Say

DeSmogBlog

That’s because current market dynamics in the country “motivate the fossil fuel generators to continuously construct new plants and delay the phaseout of those that contribute little to the power grid,” Gyuri Cho of Solutions for Our Climate said last year. This could have dire health impacts.

Asia 95
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'Slight tension': From coal mines to nuclear, new Business Secretary hints at delicate decisions at heart of UK's net zero ambitions

Business Green

Kwarteng conceded there was a "gap" in policies needed to meet the UK's fourth and fifth carbon budgets for the late 2020s onwards, but insisted the government was "working closely" with the independent advisory body the Climate Change Committee (CCC) to flesh out new policies to be introduced over the coming year.