Category: Politics

The CHIPS and Science Act Offers Support to Advanced Nuclear and Fusion Industries

By John Dyer   Posted in Nuclear Attitude U
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The Act includes significant funding to ensure long-term U.S. competitiveness in the advanced nuclear sector. Investment in existing and new university nuclear infrastructure will support next-generation nuclear technologies and professionals. Funding isotope production will promote the long-term availability of medical and other isotopes. Funding for a variety of entities will support research, development and demonstration …

Japan PM Kishida orders new nuclear power plant construction

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Japan is entering a new phase in its nuclear energy strategy, with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida ordering Wednesday the development and construction of next-generation nuclear power plants. This marks a major shift from the country’s post-Fukushima policy of backing away from the building of new nuclear power plants. The move would help Japan reduce its …

For Korea’s nuclear business ambitions, it’s all in the taxonomy

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A nuclear reactor in Barakah, the United Arab Emirates [YONHAP] The “K-taxonomy” could help Korea in signing nuclear power projects overseas, but the green energy classification may not be enough for investors. A green taxonomy is a list of economic activities considered environmentally sustainable. It describes which activities and assets that can be defined as …

Boris Johnson approves funding for multibillion-pound Sizewell C nuclear plant

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Boris Johnson has greenlit funding for a new multibillion-pound nuclear power station, triggering concerns among some of Liz Truss’s allies that it could limit her economic vision. Whitehall sources confirmed the prime minister and Chancellor Nadhim Zahawi have given the financing go-ahead for the construction of the Sizewell C nuclear reactor in Suffolk. Private funding will be sought …

Poland amends laws to speed investment in nuclear energy

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Poland’s Council of Ministers has adopted a draft act amending the act on the preparation and implementation of investments in nuclear power facilities and associated investments, the country’s National Atomic Energy Agency (Państwowa Agencja Atomistyki) announced. The main goal of the changes is to shorten the time of investment implementation. In September last year, it …

Emerging small reactors projected to provide 90 GW of nuclear power to the US grid by 2050: NEI survey

By John Dyer   Posted in Nuclear Attitude Nuclear Technology U
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Dive Brief: The push for carbon-free energy will drive the growth of small modular reactors, or SMRs, with 300 of them expected to be online by 2050 supplying 731 TWh of power, according to the results of a survey the Nuclear Energy Institute conducted with a subset of its member utilities and released Aug. 5. The 19 …

Japanese support for a nuclear restart is at its highest since Fukushima disaster, says former IEA executive director

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In a first for Japan since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, public support for a nuclear restart is now at more than 60%, said a former executive director of the International Energy Agency. Nobuo Tanaka attributed that to the possibility of “serious problems by the end of this year” if Japan does not have …

Germany to keep last three nuclear power plants running in policy u-turn

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Move prompted by the mounting economic war with Russia marks the first departure from a two-decade policy to abandon nuclear energy Germany plans to postpone the closure of the country’s last three nuclear power plants as it braces for a possible shortage of energy this winter after Russia throttled gas supplies to the country, said …

Biden Signs Bill to Transform U.S. Energy, Combat Climate Change

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President Biden’s signing of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) should provide further impetus for growth of U.S. renewable energy, coming on the heels of a report from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) that installations of solar and wind power accounted for more than two-thirds of new domestic utility-scale generation in the first six months of this …