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Dutton's nuclear plan a 'heroic', cherrypicked 'recipe for higher energy bills', experts say
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1 week, 3 days ago

Dutton's nuclear plan a 'heroic', cherrypicked 'recipe for higher energy bills', experts say

ABC  

Some of the nation's top energy analysts have criticised the Coalition's nuclear plan, saying it will be more expensive, burn more carbon, result in a smaller economy and be more disruptive than Peter Dutton claims. "Economic models are interesting, valuable and some say essential, but they don't tell you what's going to happen until you try and build this kit," …

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NTPC in talks with EDF, Rosatom, Westinghouse to develop small modular reactors in India
2 weeks, 5 days ago

NTPC in talks with EDF, Rosatom, Westinghouse to develop small modular reactors in India

Live Mint  

New Delhi: State-run power generator NTPC Ltd is in discussions with EDF of France, Rosatom State Corp. of Russia and Westinghouse Electric Corp. of the US to build small modular reactors in India, two people aware of the matter said. The government and public sector energy companies have been keen on developing SMRs, as nuclear power is seen as key …

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Russia woos Namibia to mine uranium, sparking water safety fears
3 weeks, 5 days ago

Russia woos Namibia to mine uranium, sparking water safety fears

Al Jazeera  

Russian company Rosatom is trying to drill for uranium in Namibia. “Should uranium mining be allowed, it could render the water in the southeastern region of Namibia unfit for human and animal consumption, effectively bringing agriculture to a total and permanent standstill in the area,” said former Namibia Agricultural Union president, Piet Gouws, speaking to the Namibian Sun in 2022. …

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How Nuclear Power Could Be A Game Changer For Puerto Rico
2 months ago

How Nuclear Power Could Be A Game Changer For Puerto Rico

Huff Post  

This story is the third installment of a three-part series on Puerto Rico’s energy transition. Alexander Kaufman/HuffPost It may be time, Ciordia said, to reconsider one of Puerto Rico’s most universal political taboos: nuclear energy. Nuñez planned to conduct a second study into the economic benefits of nuclear power for Puerto Rico, but in 2021, the Energy Department halted funding …

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Nuclear power plant proposal: Kerala State Electricity Board seeks study on potential sites
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Nuclear power plant proposal: Kerala State Electricity Board seeks study on potential sites

The Hindu  

The Kerala State Electricity Board has reportedly requested the National Institute of Advanced Studies to carry out a feasibility study on potential locations for a nuclear power plant in Kerala. In July this year KSEB chairman and managing director Biju Prabhakar had held talks with the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited on the feasibility of setting up a nuclear …

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Do UFOs ‘target’ high-speed planes, warheads and nuclear reactors? Experts weigh in
5 months, 2 weeks ago

Do UFOs ‘target’ high-speed planes, warheads and nuclear reactors? Experts weigh in

Hindustan Times  

Experts have weighed in on why they believe UFOs target high-speed planes, warheads and nuclear reactors. Investigative journalist George Knapp has told History.com now, “All of the nuclear facilities — Los Alamos, Livermore, Sandia, Savannah River — all had dramatic incidents where these unknown craft appeared over the facilities and nobody knew where they were from or what they were …

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Coalition could push on with nuclear even if host communities oppose it, despite previous calls for 'consent'
6 months ago

Coalition could push on with nuclear even if host communities oppose it, despite previous calls for 'consent'

ABC  

In short: The Coalition says it is prepared to make "tough decisions" to build nuclear reactors, even if local communities oppose them The Coalition says it is prepared to make "tough decisions" to build nuclear reactors, even if local communities oppose them Shadow Energy Minister Ted O'Brien previously said nuclear should only be progressed on the condition of community support …

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Coalition reveals its nuclear energy policy
6 months ago

Coalition reveals its nuclear energy policy

ABC  

TED O'BRIEN, SHADOW MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY: This is the natural next step for us as a nuclear nation. SARAH FERGUSON: Ted O'Brien is the Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change. SARAH FERGUSON: Well, let me ask you this because in April Peter Dutton said that Rolls-Royce could build, he claimed, a small modular reactor for between …

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Energy experts and investors say the Coalition's nuclear plan is 'virtually impossible' without taxpayer funding
6 months ago

Energy experts and investors say the Coalition's nuclear plan is 'virtually impossible' without taxpayer funding

ABC  

In short: Energy executives, fund managers and investors do not think nuclear energy is financially viable in Australia. When asked if nuclear would form part of his company's investment portfolio should the Coalition win the next election, he said: "We don't see nuclear as really a part of the energy transition going forward." "I'm technology agnostic, I simply want to …

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Does nuclear power have a future in Australia? These numbers will help cut through the debate
6 months, 1 week ago

Does nuclear power have a future in Australia? These numbers will help cut through the debate

ABC  

As the shift away from fossil fuels gathers pace, the Coalition has turned to an emissions-free technology that has a long and contentious history — nuclear fission. "We did a lot of work to determine what nuclear power would cost in Australia," Paul Graham, the chief economist of the CSIRO's energy business unit, said. But he said that even taking …

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The nuclear reactors that could power bases on the Moon
8 months ago

The nuclear reactors that could power bases on the Moon

BBC  

The nuclear reactors that could power bases on the Moon Getty Images Astronauts living on the Moon will need lots of power – but they can't take fuel supplies with them. "We have confidence because we have used nuclear technology on prior space missions like Pioneer, Voyager and Cassini, where the systems far exceeded their original design life," says Shatel …

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Small nuclear reactors may be coming to Texas, boosted by interest from Gov. Abbott
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Small nuclear reactors may be coming to Texas, boosted by interest from Gov. Abbott

Raw Story  

"Small nuclear reactors may be coming to Texas, boosted by interest from Gov. Nuclear power isn’t new to Texas, where four large reactors have fed the electric grid for decades. Small reactors could provide consistent power for data centers or ramp up and down as needed on the state’s ever-growing electric grid, said Jimmy Glotfelty, a state public utility commissioner …

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Chris Bowen says the average time to construct a nuclear plant in the United States has been 19 years. Is that correct?
9 months ago

Chris Bowen says the average time to construct a nuclear plant in the United States has been 19 years. Is that correct?

ABC  

The claim Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy Ted O'Brien has floated a 10-year timeline for having a nuclear power plant up and running in Australia. The average build time of a nuclear power plant in the United States has been 19 years," he said. "A survey of nuclear projects built in the US since 1970 shows an average …

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Nuclear energy's six biggest myths busted as Australia seriously considers making the change - and why coal isn't necessarily the safe option
9 months, 1 week ago

Nuclear energy's six biggest myths busted as Australia seriously considers making the change - and why coal isn't necessarily the safe option

Daily Mail  

The fear of a scare campaign against nuclear energy has prompted one Coalition MP to debunk some myths about nuclear reactors - and warn even coal plants can be potentially dangerous. The prospect of a nuclear energy scare campaign has prompted a Coalition MP to debunk some myths about nuclear reactors and point out coal plants are also potentially dangerous …

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Coalition's plan to go nuclear puts five regions on the table as favoured locations for nuclear reactors
9 months, 2 weeks ago

Coalition's plan to go nuclear puts five regions on the table as favoured locations for nuclear reactors

ABC  

There are just a handful of regions in Australia shaping up as the most likely candidates for the Coalition's proposal to install nuclear reactors in Australia, as the party eyes retiring coal stations as a way to go nuclear. Speaking on Channel Seven on Tuesday morning, Mr Dutton confirmed the party was "interested" in replacing retiring coal plants with nuclear …

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Democrats And Industry Clash Over Controversial Energy Plan
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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Portugal’s Political Chaos Could Be Big For Nuclear Energy
1 year, 1 month ago

Portugal’s Political Chaos Could Be Big For Nuclear Energy

Huff Post  

A couple look out at the skyline of Lisbon, Portugal, from a public garden. “Nuclear is something that we don’t discuss in Portugal, but the energy transition could turn into one of the central points of the next election,” he said after the event. “Renewable energy, namely wind power plants and photovoltaic power plants, don’t solve the problem.” Portugal, he …

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Democratic Governors Block Bills For New Nuclear Power Plants
1 year, 2 months ago

Democratic Governors Block Bills For New Nuclear Power Plants

Huff Post  

Roy Cooper, left, and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, right, both Democrats, vetoed bills to allow construction of new nuclear power plants in their states over the past three months. “So Democratic governors in Democratic states are still finding it a little harder to support nuclear even from a climate and air-quality standpoint.” Another part of the problem, she said, was …

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We toured California’s last nuclear power plant. Take a look inside
1 year, 5 months ago

We toured California’s last nuclear power plant. Take a look inside

LA Times  

This story was originally published in Boiling Point, a newsletter about climate change and the environment. Tom Jones, a regulatory and environmental senior director at PG&E, leads a tour of Diablo Canyon’s turbine building. As we looked down at the plant from an area where PG&E stores canisters of spent fuel — no photos of the domes allowed from up …

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The Future Of Nuclear Energy Could Depend On This
1 year, 5 months ago

The Future Of Nuclear Energy Could Depend On This

Huff Post  

CAMDEN, N.J. ― On a bright, humid afternoon last September, Allen Hickman made the rounds on the floor of a factory that embodies the past, present and future of the nation’s atomic energy industry perhaps more than any other site in the United States. But it’s hardly the only party competing for a piece of what many in the industry …

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Germany to shut down final nuclear reactors. What's behind atomic energy exit
1 year, 8 months ago

Germany to shut down final nuclear reactors. What's behind atomic energy exit

Hindustan Times  

Germany has begun the closure of its remaining three nuclear reactors, despite the fact that several nations are experiencing atomic energy resurgences as a green energy source and the country itself is experiencing energy shortages as a result of natural gas supply disruptions caused by the Russia-Ukraine war. The last three nuclear plants were contributing 6% of Germany power requirement …

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Germany Shuts Down Its Last Nuclear Power Reactors
1 year, 8 months ago

Germany Shuts Down Its Last Nuclear Power Reactors

Huff Post  

Steam rises from the RWE nuclear power plant Emsland in Lingen, Germany, on Friday. “These three nuclear reactors in Germany produce more electricity than all Danish windmills and solar panels combined,” Sollid, who advocates for nuclear energy in Denmark, said by phone. Associated Press But the Fukushima disaster showed that “even in a high-tech country like Japan, the risks associated …

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Taiwan Is Retreating From Nuclear Energy. At What Cost?
1 year, 10 months ago

Taiwan Is Retreating From Nuclear Energy. At What Cost?

Huff Post  

NEW TAIPEI CITY, Taiwan ― Shrouded in late-morning mist and fenced in behind barbed wire, the facility looked at first glance like the sort of abandoned fortress where a mad scientist might carry out taboo experiments. And while the coal and gas that now provide most of Taiwan’s power depend on steady imports, nuclear reactors could crank for up to …

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Nuclear Plants Are 'well Protected' from All Types of Intrusions: Govt
2 years ago

Nuclear Plants Are 'well Protected' from All Types of Intrusions: Govt

News 18  

The government on Thursday asserted that nuclear plants in the country are “well protected” from intrusions including cyber attacks. Minister of State, Department of Atomic Energy, Jitendra Singh also said the government has entered into Inter-Government Agreements with the Russian Federation for setting up Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project. “I can assure this House that the nuclear plants are well protected …

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