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The White House's Climate Assessment Heats Up The Discussion About Nuclear Power
2014-05-16 16:15:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Forbes: Last week, the Obama Administration unveiled the enormous Third National Climate Assessment, Climate Change Impacts in the United States (the Assessment). The Assessment has received some modest criticisms from libertarian think tank Cato Institute, and others. And of course, energy interests across the spectrum--coal, gas, oil, biofuel, wind, solar, etc.--are puzzling over what the report means for the future of energy policy. But I think theres an energy sector that will be more affected...
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Tiny nuclear waste fee added up to billions
2014-05-16 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA imes: A charge for electricity that millions of Americans didn't even know they pay will suddenly disappear Friday, after the Energy Department this week quietly notified utilities across the country that it was suspending its fees for a future nuclear waste dump. The Energy Department has been collecting $750 million from electricity bills every year for such a dump since 1983, putting it into a trust fund that now contains $31 billion. The court-ordered suspension may be a modest victory for consumers,...
Worlds first superconducting power line paves the way for billions of dollars in savings, more nuclear power stations
2014-05-14 16:20:28| Extremetech
A new (relatively) high-temperature superconductor is now serving the German city of Essen, possibly marking the beginning of one of our most important global upgrades.
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State leaders in Florida approve plan to add two nuclear reactors
2014-05-14 15:44:24| Energy - Topix.net
Florida Governor Rick Scott and members of the Cabinet on Tuesday approved plans by the state's largest electric company to add two nuclear reactors to a plant in the Miami area, despite an outcry by environmentalists and some surrounding communities.
Kennedy vows U.S. help for Fukushima nuclear clean-up
2014-05-14 15:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: U.S. Ambassador to Japan Caroline Kennedy pledged U.S. support for the clean-up at Japan's tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Wednesday after her first visit to the site. Kennedy, dressed in a white radiation protective suit with her name taped on the back and a mask covering her face, went inside a damaged reactor building where she saw how Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) is removing fuel rod assemblies from a cooling pool. Tepco has removed 814 out of 1,533 fuel rod...
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