Can bitcoin be sustainable? Kryptovault's operation is part of a fightback against criticism of the famously energy-intensive industry
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The nuclear industry argues regulators don’t understand new small reactors
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The economics of nuclear energy
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Sweden approves plans for Forsmark nuclear waste storage site – will bury nuclear waste in the bedrock, and seal the facilities once they are full
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The Texas electrical grid failure was a warmup
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The wind farms angering renewable energy fans
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Tidal kites with a five-metre wingspan move underwater in a figure-of-eight pattern, absorbing energy from the running tide to generate electricity
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Why do manatees die when power plants shut down?
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Norway's incoming centre-left government has said it will seek to grow the country's lucrative oil and gas industry while striving to cut carbon emissions
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Norway's supreme court stripped two wind farms of their operating licences in a case that could boost the legal rights of the country's indigenous Sámi people
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Why biofuels are terrible
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Pipeline company paid Minnesota police for arresting and surveilling protesters
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India’s power outage risks increase as coal stockpiles plummet
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A German power plant just ran out of coal in latest energy shock
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The decreasing cost of renewables unlikely to plateau anytime soon
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Why California is shutting down its last nuclear plant
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A letter from a jailed Line 3 water protector
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Trans-Alaska pipeline under threat from thawing permafrost
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World's longest undersea power connection was today switched on, allowing Norway and the UK to share renewable energy
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China hit by power cuts and factory closures as energy crisis bites
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Europe’s energy crisis is coming for the rest of the world, too
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Denmark risks falling short of its 2030 climate targets unless it builds far more wind and solar farms and overcomes bureaucracy and local resistance to turbines
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Winter is coming and Europe is running scarily low on gas
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Electrify everything is slow
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With climate change emerging as a primary issue in this month's Norwegian parliamentary election, there are signs people are questioning the country's reliance on crude oil
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New Form Energy iron-air battery outperforms best lithium ion tech
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5% of electric plants responsible for 73% of power sector emissions
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PG&E will bury 10,000 miles of power lines so they don't spark wildfires
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Greenland stops oil and gas exploration – natural resources minister Naaja Nathanielsen said the environment and climatic impacts had been assessed as being too high
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Why geothermal isn't ubiquitous and how it might get that way
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Joe Biden administration bars US imports of solar panels linked to forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region
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'Cool’ roofs, cooler designs as the building industry embraces energy sustainability
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Texas’ “failsafe” generators failed, risking weeks-long catastrophe
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Giant solar project proposed in south Butte, landowners concerned
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Solar power's decade of falling costs is thrown into reverse
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End of wind power waste? Vestas unveils blade recycling technology.
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A summary of the book "Why Nuclear Power Has Been a Flop" by Jack Devanney
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When Texas’ natural gas supplies froze up, prices soared, and now Minnesota’s customers are looking at an $800 million bill
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IKEA plans to accelerate its investment in renewable energy by spending an extra €4bn by the end of the decade to build wind and solar farms
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A Finger Lakes power plant plans to ramp up energy-intensive Bitcoin mining
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LAVO hydrogen battery system
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TVO cleared for fuel loading at Olkiluoto Unit 3
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Steven Donziger has been under house arrest for over 580 days, awaiting trial on a misdemeanor charge. It’s all, he says, because he beat a multinational energy corporation in court.
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What really happened during the Texas power grid outage?
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IAmA chemical engineer who works with spent nuclear fuel. AMA!
Thanks to @suspended and @deimos for the suggestion! Hey y’all, I am a basin chemistry engineer for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Our facility stores spent...
Thanks to @suspended and @deimos for the suggestion!
Hey y’all, I am a basin chemistry engineer for the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Our facility stores spent nuclear fuel from a variety of research and experimental reactors underwater. Our specialty is highly-enriched aluminum-clad fuel, but we have a diverse array of unusual fuels from around the world. A good overview of fuel types can be found here.
My primary responsibility is ensuring the basin water is kept highly pure to minimize corrosion to the fuel, as well as ensure it is free of radionuclides to the extent practicable. I’m happy to answer any questions I can about nuclear fuel, nuclear power, radioactive waste, etc.
More links:
Corrosion of Al-clad fuel
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Oil firms knew decades ago fossil fuels posed grave health risks, files reveal
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A fantastic video on high level nuclear waste
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Arctic island finds green power can be a curse – Greenland's rare-earth elements are attracting superpowers riding a green revolution
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Hanford radioactive sludge removal
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The battery invented 120 years before its time
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