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Kemmerer 1 Breaks Ground: A Look at TerraPower’s Natrium Fast Reactor Nuclear Power Plant

POWER Magazine

Bill Gates’ nuclear innovation firm TerraPower has broken ground on the non-nuclear portion of Kemmerer Unit 1, a 345-MW Natrium sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR) power plant.

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Ensuring A Safe Future For Nuclear Power

R-Squared Energy

The world needs to expand global nuclear power generation to help curb global carbon emissions. We simply can’t have major nuclear incidents such as those that took place at Chernobyl, Ukraine and Fukushima, Japan. In the history of nuclear power, there have been few serious incidents.

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Innovation could spur the UK's nuclear renaissance

Business Green

As part of its approach to dealing with energy security concerns, the UK government has turned to nuclear power. While near-term targets look at expanding existing forms of nuclear power, the UK also has a strong commitment to developing the next generation of civil nuclear technologies.

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Fourth Generation Nuclear Reactors Take A Big Step Forward

R-Squared Energy

In 2019, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released Nuclear Power in a Clean Energy System , which highlights the importance of nuclear power in decarbonizing the world’s energy sector. To be clear, nuclear power will face headwinds as long as the public perceives that such risks still exist.

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Crypto mining and data centres – the green challenge

Smart Energy International

Crypto mining operations and data centres are both in essence banks of IT systems – energy hungry with the demand for round-the-clock computation and the necessary cooling. Another approach growing in popularity is the use of waste energy, including nuclear and flared gas, for crypto mining. Have you read? Waste energy use.

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Tracking Progress on 100% Clean Energy Targets

GreenTechMedia

According to a new report from the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation , 13 states, districts and territories, as well as more than 200 cities and counties have committed to a 100 percent clean electricity target — and dozens of cities have already hit it. DeShazo, director of the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation. Washington D.C.

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? 2023’s Most Headliney-Headlines #178

Climate Tech VC

❄️ Macro market cools climate tech venture. ☢️ US nuclear power saw mixed results.    ⚡ Powerside , an Alameda , California-based innovative power quality solutions developer, raised an undisclosed amount of Growth funding from Energy Growth Momentum.