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OPG, GE Hitachi to deploy small modular reactor at Darlington station in Canada

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This reactor’s innovative features include the use of natural circulation and passive cooling systems, which are designed to cool the nuclear fuel under all conditions without the need for external power or external water supply for extended periods. A single SMR of about 300 megawatts in size can prevent between 0.3

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Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

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In Germany, all Mercedes-Benz plants will be supplied with CO 2 -neutral energy. Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources. Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources.

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How Russia Sent Ukraine Racing Into the “Energy Eurozone”

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Tight coal and gas reserves continued to bite throughout the winter. “We We have guaranteed ourselves an uninterrupted power supply for weeks and months,” said Kudrytskyi yesterday. "We We are no longer alone,” is how President Volodimir Zelenskyy put it on Wednesday , declaring Ukraine part of the "energy Eurozone."

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War in Ukraine: We Need to Talk About Fossil Fuels

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This war will have many long-term consequences, but possibly none more important than its effects on the future of the European energy supply. Rapid severing of Europe’s Russian supplies would create an unprecedented economic and existential emergency on the continent. European gas supplied three-fifths of the continent’s demand.

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The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

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In part because large reactors can be expensive and delay-prone. Giorgio Locatelli, Polytechnic University of Milan But SMR plans are not in short supply. NuScale has plans to build a US plant in Idaho by 2030; the company is involved in the UK , Poland , and Romania as well. What Part 53 will look like isn’t yet certain.

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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Nevertheless, for EVs themselves to become true zero emission vehicles, everything in their supply chain from mining to electricity production must be nearly net-zero emission as well. In states (or countries ) with a high proportion of coal-generated electricity, the miles needed to break-even climb more.

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Devil in the Details: World Leaders Scramble To Salvage and Shape Copenhagens UNFCCC Climate Summit

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With the conclusion of the 14 th Congress in Poznań, Poland a year later and little progress made, member delegates, some of who had been showing signs of pessimism and fatigue in their statements to the press, were left with just four second-level meetings at which to resolve major outstanding differences.

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