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...The International Energy Agency has said nuclear generation needs to double by 2050 to hit net zero targets....
...Fusion companies say a small cup of the fuel could power a house for hundreds of years....
...The utility and generation companies Public Service Enterprise Group and Exelon said an exit was the “best approach”....
...“Hinkley was conceived in an era when it was assumed that fossil fuels would be scarce and renewables would be expensive,” says the director of one European nuclear company....
...Three Mile Island, the power plant that was the site of the most serious US civil nuclear accident, will shut down in 2019 unless it is given additional government support, the company that owns it has said...
...“We’ve told the market that we’re going to need extra generation on that morning,” said Steven Greenlee, an ISO spokesman....
...Last month US utility Exelon said it would permanently shut down two nuclear plants in Illinois....
...Much of Aerojet’s argument focuses on the fact that the AR1 will use kerosene, the same fuel that powers the RD-180, which it said would make it possible to fit to the existing Atlas V rocket....
...Areva has teamed up with China Guangdong Nuclear Power , and Westinghouse with State Nuclear Power Technology , as well as Exelon, the US power generator....
...Under the new plan, China will require new plants to be built with “third generation” technology, which refers to the latest technologies pioneered by companies such as Westinghouse, owned by Japan’s Toshiba...
...Only the remaining fifth is from nuclear power. Indeed, the best hope for all of Japan’s nuclear companies may lie in their diversity....
...Other potential buyers for Horizon are thought to include Westinghouse, owned by Toshiba of Japan, in partnership with another Chinese energy company, and Exelon, a US power group....
...gas for power generation....
...from Exelon and Duke Energy and Dominion, two other leading nuclear generators, in a sign of their interest in the new fuel....
...fuel,” CEZ said....
...One solution to pushing output even further is being proposed by Lightbridge, a US nuclear fuels company....
...Helicopters attempting to spray water on one reactor’s overheated fuel-storage tank were forced to abandon the effort because of high levels of radiation over the plant....
...As John Rowe, chief executive of Exelon, the largest nuclear generator in the US, put it: “Gas is queen.”...
...Exelon, with more than $17bn in annual revenues, will finance the transaction with debt from one of its subsidiaries, Exelon Generation....
...Beijing has embraced nuclear energy to lessen reliance on fossil fuels....
...The $350m cash deal, announced on Thursday, will add to solar and wind projects already complementing NRG’s traditional fuel sources, ranging from nuclear to coal and natural gas....
...This spring Russia’s state-owned nuclear company trumped a Japanese consortium for the right to build the first nuclear plant Vietnam....
...The UK is set to become a leader in building the next generation of nuclear reactors after the government agreed to lend a Sheffield company £80m towards a £140m press to make ultra heavy steel forgings....
...electric generation expert and president of the Kenrich Group, a business and litigation consulting firm....
...That restriction, says V....
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