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The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

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Even more discouragingly, nuclear’s per-unit cost increased 26 percent between 2009 and 2019—while solar and wind power prices plummeted instead. Giorgio Locatelli, Polytechnic University of Milan But SMR plans are not in short supply. At least seven different developers plan to deploy SMRs in the US before 2030.

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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 Ukraine can now import up to 2 gigawatts of European power over links from Poland, Slovakia, Romania and Hungary, enabling it to conserve domestic reserves of coal and hydropower. We now have a single energy circulatory system from Lisbon to Mariupol.”

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