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by wesoff 3y ago
From the long-awaited commissioning of Vogtle 3 to the NuScale pilot’s collapse, here are the biggest wins and losses for nuclear from this year.
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by wesoff 4y ago
Funny.
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by wesoff 4y ago
Headlines limited to ~70 characters.
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by wesoff 4y ago
This is not the dawn of the long-threatened nuclear renaissance — it’s more like the swan song of the conventional nuclear industry in the U.S.
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by wesoff 4y ago
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy just signed a landmark contract to construct a small reactor. NuScale and Holtec also aim to deploy small light-water reactors by 2030.
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by wesoff 4y ago
A small modular nuclear reactor just got US approval — a big milestone Modular reactor pioneer NuScale finally got one of its designs certified by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, but the company is still years away from a deployment.
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by wesoff 4y ago
Nuclear plants big and small are getting support from the feds. Still, problems persist — TerraPower can’t source fuel, Oklo and NuScale are tangled in red tape, and more.
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by wesoff 4y ago
But will their remarkable performance in the lab ever translate into real market momentum? Caelux and other tandem-solar startups are betting the answer is yes.
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by wesoff 4y ago
TerraPower notches a record-setting investment round led by South Korea’s SK. But it has no supplier of the enriched fuel it needs, now that sourcing from Russia is off the table.
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by wesoff 4y ago
Bill Gates’ nuclear startup wins $750M, loses sole fuel source. TerraPower notches a record-setting investment round led by South Korea’s SK. But it has no supplier of the enriched fuel it needs, now that sourcing from Russia is off the tab
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by wesoff 4y ago
TerraPower notches a record-setting investment round led by South Korea’s SK. But it has no supplier of the enriched fuel it needs, now that sourcing from Russia is off the table.
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by wesoff 4y ago
“The scale of energy demand and delivery that will eventually result from these massive charging networks will be like nothing the grid has ever seen. Making good on the promise of the EV revolution is at least as much about building, finan
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by wesoff 4y ago
GlassPoint is back from liquidation with big plans to decarbonize heavy industry using solar-powered steam — and funding from BlackRock to make it happen.
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by wesoff 4y ago
Solarcycle just landed $6.6 million in venture capital funding to power its giga-scale recycling ambitions.
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by wesoff 4y ago
Definitely not a tokamak.
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by wesoff 4y ago
Nuclear startup Avalanche Energy has modest funding, a skeleton crew, a pocket-sized prototype — and grand ambitions.
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by wesoff 4y ago
This tiny fusion reactor is made out of commercially available parts Nuclear startup Avalanche Energy has modest funding, a skeleton crew, a pocket-sized prototype — and grand ambitions.
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Honey, I Shrunk the Tokamak(canarymedia.com)
3 points by wesoff 4y ago|5 comments
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by wesoff 4y ago
Auxin Solar, the tiny company whose trade petition is rattling the whole U.S. solar industry, produces solar panels of questionable quality in volumes that appear to be lower than claimed, sources tell Canary Media.
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Auxin Solar: A look at the mysterious company causing a big trade mess(canarymedia.com)
3 points by wesoff 4y ago|1 comments
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by wesoff 5y ago
From Rod Adams: Oklo's COL application is part of an effort to achieve a difficult, but important goal. The company has challenged the standard way of doing things and designed a nuclear power system that is as different from a convent