The US was once the dominant global supplier of civil nuclear technologies, but that market position has since eroded with the emergence of new international vendors , led by Russia and China.
Fifty years of the French Nuclear Industry By Jo Nova The dismal, destitution of our national energy debate You would think our former Chief Scientist would know how to do basic research before commenting in the national...
By Jo Nova The EU is fracturing over energy, and not a day too soon… Signs of hope. Just as Germany recently pulled the pin on the EU’s Electric Vehicle mandate, France is now threatening to scupper the EU’s...
By: Leen Weijers, VP Engineering, Liberty Energy Wind and solar don’t work most of the time. You may think intermittency is acceptable because the sun shines for free and the…
By Jo Nova The government of Italy is planning to build new nuclear power plants. And if it happens, it marks an astonishing turnaround.
By Jo Nova Fusion reactors will one day be the ultimate in “free energy”, but judging by the latest news of holy grail moments, it won’t be soon...
By Jo Nova The core baseload of the European grid is in trouble, and there is no back up. If the rest of Europe had enough coal or nuclear power, this wouldn’t be so bad, but they were all too worried about heatwaves...
Newsom’s avoidance of addressing tough energy policy questions will expose his limited energy literacy over the next four years of financial torture upon those that voted for him.
Nuclear energy is obtained by the huge amount of energy that is released by atoms in the processes of fusion or fission. Fusion is when two lightweight atoms (like hydrogen) are joined to form a larger atom. On the other...
Sobering thought for the day: Uganda may get a nuclear power plant before Australia gets one nuclear submarine:
The election horse that mysteriously got away
Once, when the West could build things, problems got solved Back in 2007 at least a few people still remembered that golden era. Here’s Dr Ziggy Switkowski, who at the time was head of the Prime Minister’s nuclear...
Strategically, this seems like it matters. The French nuclear power plants are the backbone of the EU grid, but this winter, just when Europe is trying to not-buy-Russian-Gas, the French might need to import power instead...
Nuclear’s suddenly the answer to “Net Zero” — Japan wants to triple its nuclear power by 2030 It’s the third largest economy in the world, and a large but quiet vacuum of global fossil fuels...
And of course the U.S. can’t supply these European energy needs because the Biden Administration is intentionally suppressing natural gas production here.
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