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Converting Coal Power Plants to Nuclear Gains Steam

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On a planet aspiring to become carbon neutral, the once-stalwart coal power plant is an emerging anachronism. It is true that, in much of the developing world, coal-fired capacity continues to grow. But in every corner of the globe, political and financial pressures are mounting to bury coal in the past.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Demonstrate competitively-priced, multi-megawatt, long-duration advanced flow batteries for utility grid applications. Demonstration of Sodium Ion Battery for Grid Level Applications. DOE funding $75,161,246, total project value with cost share $150,322,492). 16,080,554. . 10,792,045.

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WHO links 7 million premature deaths annually to air pollution; 12.5% of total global deaths

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Poor women and children pay a heavy price from indoor air pollution since they spend more time at home breathing in smoke and soot from leaky coal and wood cook stoves. million deaths in 2012 in households cooking over coal, wood and biomass stoves. PM affects more people than any other pollutant. Sulfur dioxide.

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