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Coalition reveals nuclear policy costings

ABC

Samantha Donovan: After months of speculation about the expense, the Federal Coalition has finally unveiled the economic modelling for its nuclear energy policy. Luke Radford: The costings of the Coalition's nuclear policy have been eagerly anticipated and today the moment finally arrived. Luke Radford: The Coalition says under its plan Australia's first nuclear reactor would come online in 12 years' …

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Coalition releases nuclear costings

ABC

Samantha Donovan: Hello, welcome to PM. Luke Radford: The Coalition says under its plan Australia's first nuclear reactor would come online in 12 years' time, in 2036, with more to follow leading up to 2050. David Estcourt: Professor Maria Rost Rublee from Melbourne University says there's another problem with the Coalition's costings for its nuclear policy. David Sparkes: So the …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Meta to build $10 billion AI data center in Louisiana

Deccan Chronicle

Facebook-parent Meta said on Wednesday it plans to invest $10 billion to set up an AI data center in Louisiana, in what would be the tech company's largest data center in the world. The hyperscaler data center, which is planned in Richland Parish, is designed to process huge amounts of data required to support digital infrastructure, including artificial intelligence workloads. …

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1 month ago

German Greens accused of spending £200,000 on ‘biased’ nuclear study

The Telegraph

Germany’s Green party has been accused of spending £200,000 of taxpayers’ money on a biased study against nuclear energy, with the conclusion determined before the research began. Despite claims from senior Greens that the study was commissioned in good faith, internal documents published in a public enquiry show that the expected “message” was explicitly that “nuclear energy is not sustainable …

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1 month ago

AI is giving us a nuclear renaissance: Can it help solve the climate crisis too?

Live Mint

Nuclear energy was the artificial intelligence of the 1960s. Despite its known dangers—Hiroshima and Nagasaki were quite recent back then—there was great optimism over how nuclear technology could change the world with abundant cheap energy, and free humanity from the tyranny of fossil fuels. Capturing this zeitgeist, US president Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered his famous ‘Atoms for Peace’ speech at …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Putin his place: Moment smug Vladimir tries to catch out his subordinate by pointing out an 'error' on a map…. before the brave official politely corrects the Kremlin supremo

Daily Mail

This is the moment a smug Vladimir Putin is taken down a peg by one of his top energy officials in a dispute during a tense discussion about Russia's Arctic infrastructure projects. Director General of Russia's state atomic energy corporation Rosatom Alexei Likhachev yesterday visited the Kremlin where he delivered a presentation about the company's performance and ongoing projects under …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Nuclear Power Referendum in Kazakhstan: A Legacy of Soviet Weapons Testing

Hindustan Times

Kazakhstan faces a referendum on nuclear power, confronting the country's legacy of Soviet weapons testing. The proposal, backed by the government and the country's president, aims to boost the country's energy security by building the country's first nuclear power plant. However, the use of nuclear materials remains a controversial topic, with critics drawing attention to the project's high costs and …

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3 months ago

President Biden to deliver a ‘decisive’ speech on climate

The Independent

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3 months, 1 week ago

Country expanding nuclear energy's share in power generation

China Daily

Aerial view of a nuclear power station under construction in Ningde, Fujian province, in July. According to Zhang, China's operational nuclear power units have consistently maintained a high level of output in recent years, fully serving their role as a reliable baseload power source. Nuclear power generation reached 433.4 billion kilowatt-hours last year, making China the second-largest generator globally and …

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3 months, 2 weeks ago

India, UAE broaden strategic partnership

Hindustan Times

India and the United Arab Emirates on Monday concluded agreements for the long-term supply of liquefied natural gas and civil nuclear cooperation as Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Khaled bin Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan explored opportunities to broaden cooperation to new areas such as AI and critical minerals. Prime Minister Narendra Modi welcomes Abu Dhabi's …

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5 months ago

Hyderabad Startup Launches 'Tabletop Nuclear Reactor' Using Cold Fusion to Generate Clean Energy

News 18

Can all our energy needs be met through nuclear energy? A Hyderabad-based start-up, Hylenr, says it has come up with a low-energy nuclear reactor that can be kept on a tabletop and can produce enough energy to meet a household’s needs. The company says that it’s the world’s first cold fusion technology to generate clean energy. The product was launched …

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5 months, 1 week ago

Russia will be ‘largest contributor’ to India’s energy security: Diplomat

Hindustan Times

New Delhi: Russia is committed to being the “largest contributor” to India’s energy security after accounting for more than a third of the country’s oil purchases and is giving priority to long-term contracts for crude, coal and fertilisers, a senior Russian diplomat said on Wednesday. Charge d’Affaires of Russia in India Roman Babushkin India and Russia on Tuesday set a …

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9 months ago

Russia launches sweeping attack on Ukraine’s power sector, a sign of possible escalation

LA Times

Russia unleashed one of its most devastating attacks against Ukraine’s electric sector on Friday, an aerial assault it said was retaliation for recent strikes inside Russia and which could signal an escalation of the war just days after President Vladimir Putin cemented his grip on power in a preordained election. “It is important to understand the cost of delays and …

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1 year ago

Democrats And Industry Clash Over Controversial Energy Plan

Huff Post

A cooling tower at Nine Mile Point nuclear power plant in Oswego, New York. “We like the IRA,” Sanjiv Lamba, chief executive of Ireland-based hydrogen producer Linde Group, recently said, noting that the American law is simpler and easier to understand than the EU’s policies. “Being super restrictive is definitely not going to be the thing that is going to …

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1 year, 1 month ago

U.S. to announce global nuclear fusion strategy at COP28

The Hindu

The U.S. will lay out the first international strategy to commercialize nuclear fusion power at the upcoming UN climate summit in Dubai, U.S. Special Envoy on Climate Change John Kerry will say on Monday, two sources familiar with the announcement said. "I will have much more to say on the United States’ vision for international partnerships for an inclusive fusion …

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1 year, 2 months ago

US aims to create nuclear fusion facility within 10 years, Energy chief Granholm says

Associated Press

VIENNA — The Biden administration hopes to create a commercial nuclear fusion facility within 10 years as part of the nation’s transition to clean energy, U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said Monday. Calling nuclear fusion a pioneering technology, Granholm said President Joe Biden wants to harness fusion as a carbon-free energy source that can power homes and businesses. “It’s not …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Could Kazakhstan’s Uranium Exports to the US Increase?

The Diplomat

The U.S. Congress is attempting to ban uranium imports from Russia to diminish U.S. energy reliance on the country. Moreover, if energy sanctions and bans on Russia occur, Kazakhstan’s uranium industry could ultimately be a big winner. Kazakhstan’s atomic company, Kazatomprom, has announced successful deliveries of uranium to Canada and Romania since the war commenced via the Trans-Caspian International Transport …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Over and out: Germany switches off its last nuclear plants

Associated Press

BERLIN — “Nuclear power, no thanks!” What was once a slogan found on the bumper of many a German car became a reality Saturday, as the country shut down its three remaining nuclear power plants in line with a long-planned transition toward renewable energy. As energy prices spiked last year due to the war in Ukraine, some members of German …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Germany ends nuclear era by shutting down last three power plants

Firstpost

Berlin: Reaching its final step in quitting nuclear power, Germany on Saturday pulled the plug on its last three nuclear power stations, ending the country’s nuclear era that began almost six decades ago. Germany’s Federal Minister for the Environment and Consumer Protection, Steffi Lemke, told CNN, “The position of the German government is clear: nuclear power is not green. At …

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1 year, 8 months ago

Ukraine’s coal miners dig deep to power a nation at war

Al Jazeera

Deep underground in southeastern Ukraine, miners work around the clock extracting coal to power the country’s war effort and provide civilians with light and heat. Coal is central to meeting Ukraine’s energy needs following the Russian military’s campaign to destroy power stations and other infrastructure, the chief engineer of a mining company in Dnipropetrovsk province said. “Today, the country’s energy …

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1 year, 9 months ago

Government plans £1bn per year for carbon capture technology

The Independent

The Government has announced a new plan to funnel around £1 billion a year into technology which can help capture carbon emissions before they are released into the atmosphere. The Chancellor will next week set out what he promises to be a “clean energy reset” with extra money for carbon capture and new promises on nuclear power. This plan will …

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2 years ago

Take claims of nuclear fusion breakthroughs with a grain of salt, Dutch expert says

NL Times

Marco de Baar, director of the Dutch institute for energy research DIFFER, is not sure about the claims of researchers in the United States who said they managed to achieve energy gains using nuclear fusion, which is a major scientific breakthrough. Atoms are fused together in nuclear fusion, which releases energy but without waste or carbon emissions. An industry that …

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2 years ago

U.S. reaches a fusion power milestone. Will it be enough to save the planet?

NPR

U.S. reaches a fusion power milestone. Unless there's an even larger breakthrough, fusion is unlikely to play a major role in power production before the 2060s or 2070s, says Tony Roulstone, a nuclear engineer at Cambridge University in the U.K., who's done an economic analysis of fusion power. At that rate, fusion power won't come soon enough for the Biden …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Poland looks to South Korea to build 2nd nuclear power plant

Associated Press

WARSAW, Poland — Polish and South Korean officials have signed initial agreements to develop a nuclear power plant in Poland, part of an effort by Poland to lower its carbon emissions and seek energy security. The signing of agreements in Seoul come days after Poland announced that it had picked the U.S. and Westinghouse to build the first nuclear power …

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Coalition reveals nuclear policy costings

Coalition releases nuclear costings

Meta to build $10 billion AI data center in Louisiana

German Greens accused of spending £200,000 on ‘biased’ nuclear study

AI is giving us a nuclear renaissance: Can it help solve the climate crisis too?

Putin his place: Moment smug Vladimir tries to catch out his subordinate by pointing out an 'error' on a map…. before the brave official politely corrects the Kremlin supremo

Nuclear Power Referendum in Kazakhstan: A Legacy of Soviet Weapons Testing

President Biden to deliver a ‘decisive’ speech on climate

Country expanding nuclear energy's share in power generation

India, UAE broaden strategic partnership

Hyderabad Startup Launches 'Tabletop Nuclear Reactor' Using Cold Fusion to Generate Clean Energy

Russia will be ‘largest contributor’ to India’s energy security: Diplomat

Russia launches sweeping attack on Ukraine’s power sector, a sign of possible escalation

Democrats And Industry Clash Over Controversial Energy Plan

U.S. to announce global nuclear fusion strategy at COP28

US aims to create nuclear fusion facility within 10 years, Energy chief Granholm says

Could Kazakhstan’s Uranium Exports to the US Increase?

Over and out: Germany switches off its last nuclear plants

Germany ends nuclear era by shutting down last three power plants

Ukraine’s coal miners dig deep to power a nation at war

Government plans £1bn per year for carbon capture technology

Take claims of nuclear fusion breakthroughs with a grain of salt, Dutch expert says

U.S. reaches a fusion power milestone. Will it be enough to save the planet?

Poland looks to South Korea to build 2nd nuclear power plant