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Concerns about energy security and climate change are fuelling a renaissance of interest in nuclear energy — and technological advances.
...“I would warn against this point of good nuclear against bad nuclear, it’s not conducive to what we need to have in the global energy market.”...
...A UK government spokesman said it was supportive of multilateral development banks encouraging the inclusion of nuclear energy in their energy lending policies....
...Amund Vik, former Norwegian state secretary for energy and a senior adviser at the consultancy Eurasia Group, said it was “more difficult to do the energy transition without nuclear” as a consistent baseload...
...There’s a recognition nuclear has to be part of the energy mix going forward,” said Ronan Tanguy, programme lead for safety and licensing at the World Nuclear Association, which is also working on the issue...
...Mantashe said nuclear energy will be “part of the solution” to filling Africa’s energy gap....
...As a result, nuclear will have role to play in the overall energy transition — the question is: how large a role? “Over 80 per cent of global energy still comes from fossil fuels,” says Roma....
...And momentum is growing, with world leaders attending a first-of-a-kind Nuclear Energy Summit this week in Brussels, to discuss funding for the industry’s expansion, with the International Atomic Energy...
...Bowen said he was aiming to have the first SMRs operational by the mid-2030s, slightly later than the “early 2030s” date given by then-energy secretary Grant Shapps last July....
...Western countries mishandle nuclear energy projects by failing to plan and trying to complete them too fast, the head of AtkinsRéalis, the biggest maker of reactors that run on natural uranium, has warned...
...The European Commission president said at the first global nuclear summit on Thursday that “most pathways to net zero keep a place open for nuclear power” and that atomic energy could “make a significant...
...The energy security department said safety and security at former nuclear sites was “paramount and we fully support the Office for Nuclear Regulation in its independent role as regulator”....
...William Magwood, head of the OECD’s Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), which comprises 34 countries, suggests chemists and engineers from those early days “would be astonished to find out we aren’t recycling”....
...Todd Noe, Microsoft’s director of nuclear and energy innovation....
...has gained more confidence in nuclear energy....
...Amazon’s AWS revealed in March that it had paid $650mn for a data centre campus connected to Talen Energy’s Susquehanna nuclear plant in Pennsylvania....
...Tony Roulstone Former Managing Director of Rolls-Royce Nuclear; Lecturer on Nuclear Energy, University of Cambridge, UK...
...The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed there was “no damage” to Iran’s nuclear bases following reports that its military shot at incoming targets near a major army base in the early hours of Friday...
...“Nuclear energy has great commercial attributes but it also has huge geopolitical attributes....
...European scientists have set a record for the amount of energy generated from nuclear fusion, another sign of progress in a decades-long effort to produce power by harnessing the reaction that powers the...
...The director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency said “a very serious conversation is due” with Iran over its nuclear enrichment capabilities....
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...Investments in nuclear energy and defence were demands made by France in exchange for its backing for Calviño at the helm of the EIB, according to EU and bank officials....
...One advantage of fusion is that, unlike nuclear fission, it does not create radioactive spent fuel that needs to be stored in secure silos for thousands of years....
...This is being driven by governments’ renewed interest in nuclear energy, an emissions-free power source that advocates say will play a key role in the energy transition....
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