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Arid lands are ideal for solar now but face a cloudy tomorrow
"Semiarid places are now like students who get an A nearly every day,” says Princeton's Dr. Amilcare Porporato. Yet climate change may turn their solar-energy grades to Bs or Cs.
The competition is on for Eastern Europe’s nuclear power market
The renewed interest in nuclear energy projects in Central-Eastern Europe has hardly gone unnoticed around the planet.
Small nuclear reactors could help lower the UK’s emissions
The electricity generated by each reactor would suffice to power 450,000 homes.
Putting science back into the nuclear debate
As someone that has spent her entire career defending evidence-based science, I am dismayed that too often the scientific facts around the health effects of low dose radiation are ignored. Media stories that seek to mislead the public about the
Could Covid-19 increase acceptance of nuclear technologies?
The role of the nuclear industry in these times is largely unknown among the public, and it’s here that the industry has the greatest chance to increase general acceptance.
Doing away with diesel using small modular reactors
As far as decarbonization solutions, one of the challenges hanging out there looking for a solution is off-grid power – electrical power that is being delivered away from major grids, be it in small settlements, islands, or remote mining and