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• NNSA’s Top Supercomputers Counted On Most Energy-Efficient List

  
  Nuclear Power Industry News — Authority: 486
  Majority of top 25 systems based on NNSA, DOE technology  - By Stephen Heiser - National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Administrator Thomas D’Agostino congratulates the Advanced Simulation and Computing program for two supercomputers ranked in the TOP Green500’s top 10 most energy-efficient ...
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• Batteries Too Costly for Grid Energy Storage: Analysts

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  Despite all the attention on battery technology for energy storage for the power grid in the latest round of smart grid stimulus funds, current battery technology is just too expensive to be mass deployed right now, according to analysts at Black and Veatch. “Unless battery technology makes dramatic advances soon, ...
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• Peak Uranium Debate

  
  Uranium Investing News — Authority: 437
  Nuclear power is quickly becoming a viable option and hundreds of new nuclear facilities are planned for construction in countries around the world. Much like the debate over peak oil, questions concerning the ability of the earth’s uranium reserves to meet the expected demand of a world gone nuclear are beginning ...
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• Copenhagen: Obama In, UN Climate Chief Says No Plan B

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  Sometimes a week in the fickle world of international climate change politics can deliver a whole new ball game. Last week politicians and pundits were decrying that the Copenhagen climate talks, which are now 12 days away, would not include a formal pact given the U.S. Senate had failed to pass its climate bill. ...
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• Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Criticisms and Responses

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 629
  There are two main criticisms of focus fusion. 1. Hydrogen-boron fuel allows too much x-ray cooling * The hot plasma of this fuel will emit x-rays too quickly, * the energy lost through the x-rays will always be more than the energy gained by fusion reactions. * the fusion reactions would not heat the plasma ...
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• Daily Sprout

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  Obama Heading to Copenhagen: The White House announced today that President Obama will attend the UN climate talks next month in Copenhagen “and commit the U.S. to a short-term emission reduction target ‘in the range of 17 percent’ below 2005 levels, providing new momentum for negotiations that had been ...
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• Solyndra Scores $105M Deal With Italy’s Sun System

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  Solyndra, the well-funded maker of tube-shaped solar panels based in Fremont, Calif., has just scored a deal with Milan, Italy-based solar integrator Sun System. Under an agreement that Solyndra says could be worth up to $105 million over several years, Sun System will use the 4-year-old startup’s cylindrical thin ...
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• Three Mile Island operations resume

  
  EarthNews — Authority: 434
  Greenwire : Following a weekend radiation leak at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant ( Greenwire , Nov. 23), Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell has criticized plant leaders for failing to involve emergency officials for five hours after knowing of the contamination. The plant resumed full operations yesterday. ...
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• Nuclear Power: 60 is the New 40

  
  NEXT100 — Authority: 129
  By: Jonathan Marshall PG&Es request for a 20-year extension on its license extension to operate its Diablo Canyon Power Plant puts the utility in good company: More than 50 U.S. nuclear reactors have received license extensions from their original 40 years out to 60 years, acording to the World Nuclear ...
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• Smart Grid Stimulus: Chu Expected to Announce $600M in Demo Project Winners

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  According to the trade group the GridWise Alliance, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu is expected to announce another $600 million in smart grid stimulus funds today. Those are the funds for smart grid demonstration projects — which will enable utilities to test out next-generation digital power grid technology — and ...
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• NNSA Gets Technical Review Of LEP Programs

  
  Nuclear Power Industry News — Authority: 486
  JASON’s review confirms the challenges associated with adding performance margin and incorporating modern safety and security features into aging weapons systems  - By April Murelio - The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has announced that it has transmitted a classified technical review of the ...
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• Established Environmental Groups Are Grudgingly Accepting Nuclear Energy

  
  Atomic Insights Blog — Authority: 497
  In the November 23, 2009 issue of the Washington Post, there is an article titled Nuclear Power Regains Support that describes how some established Environmental groups and individuals have decided that nuclear power can be part of a set of tools that will enable a transition away from fossil fuels. A major reason ...
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• Brazil’s Lula backs Iran’s nuclear programme

  
  GenevaLunch — Authority: 521
  Brazilian President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva is calling on world leaders to develop new tactics with Iran, to engage the country rather than isolating it. Lula da Silva and Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad met in Brazil Monday 23 November and Lula, the rare leader to welcome Ahmadinejad, said in a joint press ...
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• Does “Cool Cars” Rule Block Wireless Signal? Cali Says No

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  A new rule in California meant to help keep vehicles cool in the sun (and thus cut the need for fuel-chugging air conditioners) could interfere slightly with signal reception for GPS devices, but probably won’t block most mobile phone signals. Those are some of the findings in a report released this month by the ...
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• No support for Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but hope engagement works: Manmohan Singh

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  By Arun KumarWashington, Nov 24 (IANS) Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has made it clear that India does not support Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions, but hoped that President Barack Obama’s approach of engagement without pre-conditions would yield positive results.“As far as Iran’s nuclear weapons ambitions are ...
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• Tesla IPO: A Test for VC Model in the Auto Biz

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  Last Friday, buzz about an imminent IPO for electric car startup Tesla Motors hit the Interwebs, courtesy of two anonymous sources familiar with the plans who spoke with Reuters. As in several previous stories about its possible plans for a public offering, the company has declined to comment.But if and when Tesla ...
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• Daily Sprout

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  Time for Contingent Climate Commitments: Should the Obama administration get out ahead of Congress, pledging to set greenhouse gas emission reduction targets that 67 senators may not be willing to ratify? — GristGM Marketing Volt to…Middle Schoolers?: “On November 30th, hundreds of middle school students and ...
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• A Nuclear Reactor Shows Its Age

  
  Green Inc. — Authority: 739
  While upgrading the steam generators at a nuclear power plant in Florida, workers discovered a gap inside a concrete containment dome.
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• Entergy: Pull-back is buy opportunity

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 659
  Filed under: Stocks to Buy Unlike France, the United States did not build nearly enough nuclear power plants in the last two decades of the 20th century to accommodate its power needs, and it will spend the next two decades playing catch-up, which is why Im reiterating my buy rating for Entergy Corp. ( ETR ), ...
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• So long peak oil, here comes peak uranium

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 659
  Filed under: Rio Tinto plc ADS (RTP) , Commodities We all got used to hearing about peak oil, especially after a whistleblower recently alleged that the International Energy Agency has downplayed a looming oil shortage to appease the U.S. and prevent panic buying. What we havent heard much about is the looming ...
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