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25 Feb 2019, 11:15 am
House of Representatives committees hold hearings focusing on issues from cybersecurity in the nation’s surface transportation and defense agency to energy research funding programs and trade tensions between the U.S. and China; and elsewhere in the nation’s capital, the Heritage Foundation looks at issues related to the modernization of the United States’ nuclear submarine fleet and the Cato Institute holds a day-long event on Friday to examine the topic… [read post]
15 Nov 2021, 8:15 am
Elsewhere, The Brookings Institution hosts a conversation with U.S. [read post]
12 Jan 2012, 8:30 am
Federal Election Commission -- that a record amount of Big Energy's corporate money will be used to try to influence voters on energy issues and disparage candidates that put people before polluter profits.Even with this harsh reality, there are myriad opportunities to neutralize the influence of Big Energy and support clean and safe energy champions.But we'll need your help.Take our online survey to let us know which of our top priorities for… [read post]
12 Jan 2021, 12:10 pm
For context, petroleum is responsible for 37 percent of our energy consumption, while coal is responsible for only 11 percent, natural gas comprises 32 percent, and the remaining 20 percent comes from non-emitting sources like nuclear and renewables.[3] In terms of end-use, the transportation sector is responsible for just under 37 percent of emissions. [read post]
8 Jan 2014, 9:21 am
The association represents the interests of global corporations looking to profit from the nuclear energy business. [read post]
6 May 2019, 7:27 am
Unlike nuclear fission reactions in which energy is released when atoms are “split,” fusion releases energy when atoms are “joined” together. [read post]
27 Mar 2012, 7:44 am
Community-owned and aboriginal-owned projects receive the highest number of points, three, with schools and other public institutions receiving two points. [read post]
31 Aug 2022, 7:57 am
Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR). [read post]
27 Jul 2012, 7:18 am
(Or, as the environmental groups note, more than the amount of energy produced by Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant, which they have pushed to have shuttered.) [read post]
28 Apr 2010, 8:20 am
- CNN.comScientists at a government lab here are trying to use the world's largest laser -- it's the size of three football fields -- to set off a nuclear reaction so intense that it will make a star bloom on the surface of the Earth. [read post]
4 Aug 2011, 9:22 pm
With nuclear energy under serious pressure from the irresponsible fear crowd, there is an urgent need to quickly increase other carbon free options, and some kind of feed-in tariff law is a vital tool for that. [read post]
28 May 2014, 8:48 am
<> NRC Commissioners Kill Further Study of Moving Spent Fuel from Overcrowded Cooling Pools - The Nuclear Regulatory Commission today announced that four of its five members voted to decline further consideration of a plan to expedite transferring spent nuclear fuel from cooling pools to dry casks at U.S. nuclear. . . [read post]
11 Oct 2021, 11:06 am
Navy nuclear engineer and his wife have been charged with passing secret information about nuclear submarines to a foreign country, says the Washington Post. [read post]
1 Jul 2010, 7:45 am
Angus King, one of the Highland Wind LLC business partners, said the project carries an environmental impact but that it's more benign than oil, gas, coal or nuclear power. [read post]
12 Feb 2017, 2:18 pm
And calculatedly, the Maryland Renewable Energy Portfolio Standard does not take into account that more than one third of electricity in the State is generated from nuclear power, the ultimate (but controversial) renewable energy source that produces virtually no greenhouse gas emissions. [read post]
1 Jul 2023, 5:31 pm
Russian forces have been reported to reduce patrols in the vicinity, with Ukrainian employees of the plant, who have contracts with Russia’s state-owned nuclear energy firm, Rosatom, instructed to evacuate by July 5. [read post]
5 Sep 2017, 6:30 am
IAEA Verifies Iran’s Compliance with Nuclear Deal Despite President Donald Trump’s recent threats to declare Iran out of compliance with the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the organization actually tasked with monitoring the deal’s implementation under the terms of the agreement, once again certified that Iran is fulfilling its obligations in its latest quarterly report, filed last week. [read post]
25 Jan 2012, 2:19 pm
[15] In order to help foster an EU integrated energy market, the European Economic and Social Committee (an advisory and interinstitutional body of the EU in charge of representing employers, employees and civil society more generally) has been in favour of instituting a “European Energy Community” so as to promote a “joint approach to energy production, transmission and consumption”. [read post]
30 Sep 2020, 9:10 am
So suggests the New York Times in Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor Is ‘Very Likely to Work,’ Studies Suggest, Scientists developing a compact version of a nuclear fusion reactor have shown in a series of research papers that it should work, renewing hopes that the long-elusive goal of mimicking the way the sun produces energy might be achieved and eventually contribute to the fight against climate change. [read post]
18 Nov 2022, 6:16 am
Nuclear Posture Review Part I Part I of the NPR calls for a “comprehensive, balanced approach to defending vital national security interests and reducing nuclear risks. [read post]
