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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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Nuclear Enters 2021 With Buoyant Global Outlook for Small Modular Reactors

GreenTechMedia

and Canada, three major nuclear markets, all signaled growing support for SMRs in the closing weeks of 2020. Canada, for example, launched a 27-point SMR national action plan to demo and deploy the technology, update regulations, create employment and exploit foreign market opportunities. NuScale is intending to bid for 2.5

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? Copper’s the new gold rush #184

Climate Tech VC

It’s a superior electricity conductor, which makes it fundamental to power cables and wires, transformers and inverters, electrical motors, and photovoltaic cells.  🚗 Snap-E Cabs , a Kolkata, India-based electric cab service provider, raised $2m in Seed funding from Inflection Point Ventures.

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? 2023’s Most Headliney-Headlines #178

Climate Tech VC

🔋 Renewables + storage turned out to be price competitive against fossil fuels after Lazard’s Levelized Cost of Electricity analysis included intermittency costs for the first time. Proterra, the dominant electric bus maker, was just one high profile example. ☢️ US nuclear power saw mixed results.

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? US clean investment cleans up with $239bn #187

Climate Tech VC

Clean electricity generation received the most (39%), followed by distributed energy resources (24%), EV purchases (18%), manufacturing (16%), then emerging climate technologies (<1%). Confounding factors like interest rates, permitting and interconnection kept clean electricity deployment rates at their lowest since 2018. 

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? Uranium prices go nuclear #181

Climate Tech VC

Just last week, the UK Government laid out its plan to quadruple nuclear power by 2050 and China approved construction for four new reactors. 🛵 LAND , a Cleveland, OH-based electric battery manufacturing, raised $3m in Series A funding from Nunc Coepi Ventures. Can’t get enough deals? Although 1.5% of the U.K.’s

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? Ammonia goes from fertilizer to fuel #180

Climate Tech VC

See full listings and deal analytics on Sightline Climate Request a Sightline Climate demo In the News Hertz announced plans to sell a third of its U.S. Meanwhile, nuclear demand heightened with the UK Government laying out its plan to quadruple nuclear power by 2050 to 24GW and China approving construction for four new reactors.