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Rolls-Royce consortium secures funding for mini nuclear reactors

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A Rolls-Royce-led consortium creating a compact nuclear power station, or small modular reactor (SMR) has revealed its latest design with increased power. The power station’s compact size makes it suitable for a variety of applications, helping decarbonise entire energy systems. billion per unit dropping to £1.8

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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

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And yet more air conditioning exacerbates the very problem—climate change—that is driving the need for more air conditioning. Centrus Energy To generate power, old-school light-water nuclear reactors use oxide fuel, which consists of ceramic pellets of uranium oxide, arranged end-to-end to form rods that are clad in zirconium alloy.

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EEA says industrial air pollution cost Europe up to €169 billion in 2009; some 37% attributed to CO2

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Estimating the magnitude of costs associated with future climate change impacts is very uncertain. The industrial facilities covered by the analysis include large power plants, refineries, manufacturing combustion and industrial processes, waste and certain agricultural activities.

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

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Ontario Power Generation (OPG) will work together with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy (GEH) to deploy a Small Modular Reactor (SMR)—the BWRX-300—at the Darlington new nuclear site, the only site in Canada currently licensed for a new nuclear build. A single SMR of about 300 megawatts in size can prevent between 0.3

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