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  • February 2022
    Germany Shutters More Reliable Nuclear Plants

    Germany just closed three of its last six nuclear power plants despite rising energy costs and the country’s lofty climate goals. How the...

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  • September 2021
    New Nuclear, Carbon Capture, and Hydrogen Unlikely...

    While the Clean Energy Payment Program (CEPP) in the Democrats’ reconciliation bill includes nuclear, carbon capture, and some hydrogen as resources that...

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  • August 2021
    As Nuclear Plants Close, Biden’s Net-Zero Electric...

    After a 2011 tsunami damaged Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, Germany began its Energiewende—energy transition—closing nuclear plants and constructing wind and solar...

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  • June 2021
    Why Won’t the U.S. Reprocess Spent Nuclear...

    The reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel allows more energy to be gained from the same amount of fissile material, produces less waste,...

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  • May 2021
    Countries and States Replace Nuclear Power with...

    Belgium is the latest country to announce it will replace its shuttered nuclear plants with natural gas generation. The country has seven...

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  • April 2021
    New York Closes the Last Reactor at...

    Indian Point’s last nuclear reactor will be shuttered on April 30, and its power will be largely replaced by natural gas, despite...

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