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South Korean Team to Develop SMRs to Power Ships Poland / France’s EDF Signs MOU for SMRs NANO Nuclear Closes $ 4.14M Funding Round for Micro Reactor NANO Nuclear Energy Inc Creates HALEU Fuel Spinoff Clean Core Thorium Energy Begins VDR Process at CNSC for ANEEL Fuel Argonne National Lab Kicks off Three GAIN Funded Advanced Nuclear Projects South Korean Team to Develop..
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I have written on this subject before. Arctic amplification is a secondary effect of climate change, where global warming in the summer increases the temperature by more than twice as much in Polar Regions. A major concern from this is that it accelerates melting of the polar ice caps. Unfortunately, rising oceans are not the endpoints of the risk from arctic amplification…
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This will be a strange post / paper. I will treat the U.S. Department of Defense NOT as the defender of our nation (and quite a few others), but as a huge enterprise. I know the military can be rather “distinct” as compared to other enterprises. This is mainly because of their unique focus on their main mission (see above), and the unique management elements and organization needed..
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On Friday, Feb 3, I attended a meeting hosted by the MA DOER to present the latest (rev 3) Forward Clean Energy Market (FCEM) design proposal. During the call, in the chat, I was asked “What’s the difference between AOCE and FCEM?” I hadn’t thought about this before but here is what I said: “AOCE procures a capacity commitment and FCEM procures a..
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While the stream of new clean hydrogen project announcements continues unabated, moving these projects to implementation phase has been a challenge amid supply chain and local permitting delays as well as the need for additional clarity around regulation and taxation. Nevertheless, a very small amount of capacity has come to fruition recently and the front end of the supply wave is..
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The cost of building the nation’s first small modular reactor (SMR) is rapidly escalating due to the impact of as yet uncontrolled inflation in key commodity areas. According to a set of talking points prepared on January 3, 2023, by the Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP) there are new details about these costs. The new cost numbers come in tandem with the completion..
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