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France to boost renewable energy, reduce nuclear
2014-08-01 12:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RFI: France is to invest up to 10 billion euros to boost investment in renewable energy and cut the country's oil and gas costs. On Wednesday French Environment and Energy Minister Ségolène Royal presented a long-delayed energy bill to the weekly cabinet meeting. One of the bill's goals is to reduce the country's reliance on nuclear energy from 75 per cent.of its electricity production to 50 per cent. Royal also plans to boost renewable energy sources. The plan does not live up to President...
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The rise and fall of nuclear power, in 6 charts
2014-08-01 07:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Vox: Nuclear power is slowly going out of style. Back in 1996, atomic energy supplied 17.6 percent of the world's electricity. Today that's down to just 10.8 percent -- and it could drop even further in the years ahead. Many reactors are closing -- and new reactors have been bogged down by delays That's according to the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2014, which charts the rise and fall of nuclear power over time. The upshot is that significantly...
Report Paints Bleak Future for Nuclear Power
2014-07-30 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate Central: The globe's nuclear power industry is aging, plagued with high costs and construction delays, and generally on the decline. That's the conclusion of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report released Tuesday, an annual assessment of the trends in nuclear power production and the state of nuclear reactors worldwide. While nuclear power is seen by some of the most prominent climate scientists in the U.S. as a necessary means of reducing greenhouse gas emissions from electricity generation to combat...
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UK Government launches new nuclear waste disposal plan
2014-07-28 01:00:00| Power Technology
The UK Government has launched a new long-term plan to permanently dispose of the radioactive waste in the country.
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Climate needs new support for nuclear power
2014-07-27 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Des Moines Register: Almost 30 years after James Hansen, NASA's chief atmospheric scientist, warned Congress that the burning of fossil fuels leads to global warming, the evidence still points to one conclusion: Increasing the use of zero-carbon nuclear power must be part of the solution. Hansen, along with other prominent climatologists, sees great value in using nuclear power to reduce carbon emissions. Nuclear power, in one or more advanced designs, holds promise for the generation of abundant, clean and affordable...
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