After the Moss Landing battery fire, should California limit where battery storage plants can be built?
With construction near homes, schools and businesses, a growing call for more limits on key renewable technology ...
Energy experts blast failed billion-dollar DOE project as ‘financial boondoggle,’ ‘disaster’
The facility was touted by then-Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz as an “example of how America is becoming a world leader in solar energy.” ...
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We know why nuclear build costs are soaring — and Australia faces the biggest increases
And studies of what has caused such rampant inflation show Australia is in the worst position to enter the complex and eye-wateringly expensive business of building nuclear power plants.
Utility companies just proposed a new nuclear plant in Arizona. What to know
Arizona's electric utilities are planning for more nuclear power as part of a new look for this energy source and the ...
In letters: We need Diablo Canyon’s energy. Keep nuclear plant open 20 more years | Opinion
Tribune included an editorial about the Moss Landing battery facility fire and a letter to the editor from authors calling attention to the impacts of climate change and the need for our local ...
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Artificial Intelligence is Bringing Nuclear Power Back from the Dead — Maybe Even in California
That reduced California’s nuclear energy arsenal to just the two reactors at Diablo Canyon. The issues at San Onofre, in addition to the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster in Japan, ...
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Will CA revisit nuclear power for AI?
Artificial intelligence may be at the forefront of a pioneering new chapter in tech, and California AI companies are major ...
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Stargate will use solar and batteries to power $100B AI venture
Natural gas power plants, another possible source for data centers, will also take years to build. Solar and wind farms are much quicker to stand up. Compared with nuclear and natural gas plants ...
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Zombie nuclear reactors could be revived thanks to AI data center demand
Summer Nuclear Power Station, the Wall Street Journal reports. Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Power Station is a single reactor power plant ... from the University of California, Berkeley, and ...
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County official calls huge Northern California lithium battery storage fire a "Three Mile Island" event for emerging industry
The massive fire at one of the world's largest lithium battery storage plants in Northern California has shaken ... meltdown at a Pennsylvania nuclear power plant, the worst nuclear accident ...
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Environmental concerns still loom over Northern California lithium battery facility fire
referencing the 1979 partial meltdown at a Pennsylvania nuclear power plant, the worst nuclear accident in U.S. history. "I think that this is, uh, can best be described as a worst-case scenario ...
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South Carolina Utility Seeks Buyers for Failed Nuclear Project
Its decision comes as the tech industry, which is rapidly building power-hungry data centers, has begun looking to nuclear plants for their ability to provide lots of electricity around the clock ...