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IEA/OECD Report Concludes Nuclear Power Could Provide 24% of Global Electricity by 2050

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Nuclear energy is one of the key low-carbon energy technologies that can contribute, alongside energy efficiency, renewable energies and carbon capture and storage, to the decarbonization of electricity supply by 2050. Sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR). IEA Executive Director Nobuo Tanaka. Concepts for Gen IV Systems.

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US DOE Issues Request for Information on Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Market Development; Reports to Congress on Program

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In an integrated system, stored hydrogen can be converted back to electricity or used as a feedstock with atmospheric or source carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) to produce a liquid fuel for heavy-duty vehicles including trucks and jet planes. transit buses or other heavy duty vehicles). Since that time, DOE has dedicated $1.2

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