Physics World
FEBRUARY 17, 2022
Mention “nuclear power” and attention almost immediately turns to safety. Despite huge advances in nuclear technology in recent decades, everyone still thinks about the accidents that occurred at older reactors like Chernobyl , Three Mile Island or Fukushima. Dozens of countries don’t even have – or don’t want – nuclear power.
Legal Planet
OCTOBER 2, 2023
Germany decides to phase out nuclear power, complicating efforts to decarbonize the power sector. Germany has dragged its feet on EVs because of its powerful car industry. How much did ending nuclear power impede German climate progress? New rates are large enough to spark expansion of renewable industry.
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Union of Concerned Scientists
MAY 12, 2022
Currently, the states in our analysis meet their electricity needs with a mix of different electricity sources, including fossil fuels, nuclear power and renewables. In fact, the average residential rate nationally was 8 percent higher in January than it was a year earlier, the biggest annual increase since 2008.
A Greener Life
JULY 30, 2021
The country’s struggle to reduce its reliance on coal was significantly helped by the purely ideological and populist decision to phase out all its nuclear power stations by 2022 (initially following the Fukushima accident in 2011 in Japan) . The country is even expanding one of its biggest coal mines, Garzweiler lignite coal mine.
PA Environment Daily
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
In the mid 80's when drugs became a major issue, Deveney started the first utility based K-9 drug detection program, which placed dogs at two nuclear power plants, as well as other corporate facilities. In 2008, they relocated to Centre County. His clients included law enforcement, corporations and school districts.
Law Columbia
MARCH 25, 2016
million in auction proceeds that have been collected since the program was launched in 2008. The amount that the Senate has proposed diverting from the RGGI fund for FY 2017 is more than 80% of the total value of RGGI auction proceeds earned by New York in FY 2016 (which totaled approximately $166 million ).
Global Green
DECEMBER 3, 2020
Throughout the US, coal has been the leading source of energy for electric power generation. Electric energy generation by renewable sources has doubled since 2008. Almost 90 percent of the increase in renewables came from wind- and solar-power generation. Recently that has changed.
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