The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 9, 2024

French energy company to invest a further £1.3bn in its British nuclear fleet up to 2026 EDF Energy is planning to extend the life of four nuclear power stations in the UK and step up investment in its British nuclear fleet.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2023

TEPCO subcontractors collect sea water samples near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in 2013 (image credit: IAEA Imagebank , CC BY-SA 2.0 Based on our collective professional experience in nuclear science and nuclear power, we have reached the same conclusion. In the Pacific Ocean there is 7.4

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

While small modular reactors have powered naval ships for decades and are also in use in other military applications, they’ve yet to be approved for use in commercial power generation. NuScale’s design doesn’t require some of the key safety features for large-scale reactors.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

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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Energy Central

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Cooling towers are a common site near thermal and nuclear power plants. Hybrid cooling towers are different in appearance and don't produce the clouds of steam. Their shape and the steam plumes they emit make them easy to identify. They are environmentally sustainable.

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 29, 2025

Solution to stop River Severn fish stocks being sucked into cooling systems taking too long to resolve, EDF says The owner of Hinkley Point C in Somerset has warned that the much-delayed construction of Britains first new nuclear power plant in a generation could face further hold-ups due to a row over its impact on local fish.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 24, 2023

“The coming decade is decisive for keeping climate change in check, but fusion is still in its infancy, and neither CCS nor new nuclear plants based on current or small modular reactor technology can be built quickly enough.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Geothermal energy is a renewable, stable, and carbon-neutral energy source, with estimates suggesting it could meet up to a quarter of Europes heating and cooling needs and up to 10% of its electricity demand. Amidst ongoing geopolitical uncertainties, strengthening Europes energy, sovereignty and sustainability has become a key priority.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Two days after Google cut a “ world’s first ” deal to purchase electricity from advanced nuclear reactors, Amazon announced three new agreements of its own today. It’s been exploring plans for a nuclear facility using X-energy’s high-temperature gas-cooled reactor design, Xe-100, since 2020.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2023

With the largest possible nuclear exchange between the US and Russia, new models suggest the ocean would cool so profoundly that the world would be thrust into a “nuclear little ice age” lasting thousands of years.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

More than half of the 48 new reactors that the World Nuclear Association (WNA) lists as being built worldwide are in just four countries: China, India, the United Arab Emirates and Russia. It’s the same story in France, which has a higher proportion of nuclear energy on the grid than any other country in the world.

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POWER Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 14, 2021

Ten years after an earthquake and tsunami caused meltdowns at the Fukushima nuclear power plant , Japan has announced plans to release contaminated water from the plant into the ocean. Workers used more than 1 million metric tons of water to cool the three reactors that melted down in 2011. Via BBC Image via TEPCO / IAEA.

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R-Squared Energy

APRIL 28, 2023

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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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Opponents have vowed to challenge that part of the plan with state coastal water authorities, which ordered the closure of the once-through cooling (OTC) plants in the first place. Those plants use seawater for cooling, which was deemed environmentally harmful. gigawatts by 2022.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2021

The government has set out its suggested approach for constructing the UK's first Advanced Modular Reactor (AMR) demonstrator today, bolstering its ambition for the next generation of small nuclear power plants to be up and running within the next decade.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 25, 2020

French utility giant EDF said it will downgrade its forecast for nuclear power generation in its home market, without yet putting a figure on it. It is also installing backup generators to help power field hospitals and other temporary facilities. In Spain and the U.K.,

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Some coal and nuclear power plants have been forced offline, most likely due to freezing temperatures shutting down cooling systems or instrumentation required to keep them running safely. “We’ve lost multiple gigawatts of coal, we’ve had a nuclear power plant trip offline” — the 2.4-gigawatt

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

. - by Michael Holder ( @michaelholder ) 'Shovel ready': National Grid helps 20GW of clean energy projects jump connections queue National Grid moves capacity equivalent to six Hinkley Point C nuclear power stations up connections queue, promising major boost to energy storage developers. -

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

Freezing temperatures caused cascading problems in the state’s natural-gas production and delivery network that restricted fuel supply to the power plants relied upon for about two-thirds of wintertime electricity supply. It also froze up sensors and cooling systems that forced natural gas, coal and nuclear power plants to trip offline.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

The proposal could also allow hundreds of megawatts of seawater-cooled gas plants, known as OTC plants, to keep running past their 2021 retirement dates, if the reliability shortfall it fears can’t be met by other means.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2022

Advanced nuclear technologies, modular manufacturing methods and new approaches to project finance could usher a more cost-effective era for the UK's nuclear industry, writes LSE's Esin Serin. As part of its approach to dealing with energy security concerns, the UK government has turned to nuclear power.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2023

It comes at a time in which private sector funding for larger nuclear power stations is proving to be extremely difficult. Some of these smaller reactors, with molten salt and sodium-cooled designs, are expected to create waste that needs to go through additional conditioning to make it safe to store in a repository.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Greentown alum Infinite Cooling , a pioneer in sustainable water recovery, is testing its tech at EDF’s Bugey Nuclear Power Plant in France.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

Weaker residential construction activity cooled the HVAC sector, and heat pump sales bore the brunt at a 16% decline compared to 2022.  Zero emission vehicles (ZEV) led the charge, as YoY sales volume increased 52% to 1.4M vehicles, but price decreases tamped down overall investment growth to 30%.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 29, 2022

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.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

But that will require deploying renewables at an even faster pace than the current trajectory and increasing the utilization or load factor for those renewable energy projects, as well as converting coal-fired power plants to natural gas and growing hydro and nuclear power generation.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 29, 2022

The main causes include a lack of fuel for diesel power plants, technical difficulties, and low water levels at the dams where hydropower is produced. This year (2022), France has been struggling with a lack of cooling water for its nuclear power facilities due to an extremely dry period.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 30, 2025

The Growing Appetite for Power in the Tech Sector Powering a single data center is no small feat. These facilities contain servers, cooling systems, and networking equipment that run 24/7. The demands are only increasing as artificial intelligence and machine learning boost the need for computing power.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

❄️ Macro market cools climate tech venture. ☢️ US nuclear power saw mixed results.    🏠 Tetra , a Boston, Massachusetts-based heating and Cooling System developer, raised $11M in Seed funding from Greycroft, Gutter Capital, Lerer Hippeau, and 1sharpe Capital.  

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Unsustainable

APRIL 30, 2019

Live in Rome and, even if you refuse to do as Romans do, you’re going to end up living as Romans live, living in the local housing and heating (or cooling) it the same way everyone else does, using local modes of transport, buying what foods and clothes are locally available, and working the types of jobs there are for Romans to do.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Lovelock’s main concern was not warming caused by the greenhouse effect, however, but the prospect of a precipitous drop in temperatures caused by the localised cooling influence of atmospheric pollution. But the authors theorised that localised cooling caused by air pollution might counteract the greenhouse effect.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

per cent as, for example, low river levels disrupt supply chains by affecting transportation, and increase electricity prices by forcing nuclear power stations to close because of the lack of water cooling. In many areas, like power generation, the case for net-zero investment is irrefutable. per cent to 0.5

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2022

Boris Johnson stresses that offshore wind has ‘massive potential’, sparking speculation that Number 10 is cooling on proposals to ease planning restrictions. However, industry insiders have warned such a major increase in onshore renewables development would be impossible to deliver without a relaxation of current planning rules.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 22, 2024

Post-Fukushima, governments cooled on nuclear energy, but recent shifts recognizing nuclear's role in achieving net zero goals have led to demand outpacing supply. At COP28 , 30 nations vowed to triple global nuclear energy production by 2050. More uranium deals were struck last year than in the past decade.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

The drop in sulfur oxide emissions, which ironically have a cooling effect in the atmosphere by reflecting light, has also played a role in record high ocean temps this year. Electrification: Hydrofoil technologies, battery electric, and even nuclear-powered ships are charging up, but are typically more suitable for short-duration voyages.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Amazon will also lead the $500m C-1 round of X-energy, which is developing High Temperature Gas-cooled Reactors (HTGR) SMRs. Plus, Amazon has signed an MOU with Dominion Energy to explore building an SMR near the company's North Anna nuclear power plant in Virginia.

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