The gas-rich United Arab Emirates will invest $35 billion in clean energy by 2021 as it seeks to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels following crude's global price slide, it said Sunday.
Energy & Green Tech
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Are renewable energies coupled with energy efficiency too expensive? Regardless of whether the Swiss people choose a future based largely on fossil fuels, nuclear power or a combination of renewable energy sources, the cost ...
Energy & Green Tech
Sep 16, 2015
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The debate resumed Tuesday in Nevada about the possibility of radioactive contamination of the underground water supply from a proposed national nuclear waste repository in the desert near where nuclear weapons tests were ...
Environment
Sep 16, 2015
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After two years without any nuclear power in response to the 2011 Fukushima earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear crisis, Japan has restarted its first reactor, Sendai 1.
Energy & Green Tech
Aug 17, 2015
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An important research tool at DOE's Idaho National Laboratory was restarted recently after completion of a nearly 14-month overhaul-and-upgrade project. The Neutron Radiography (NRAD) Reactor provides researchers with a critical ...
General Physics
Jun 16, 2015
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The G7 leaders' pledge to eliminate the use of fossil fuels as an energy source by century's end could be the most significant outcome of the most recent meeting. It also reinforces German host Angela Merkel's claim to be ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 12, 2015
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Japan's government approved Friday a revised 30- to 40-year roadmap to clean up the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, but many questions remain.
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 12, 2015
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Nuclear energy provides about 11% of the world's total electricity today. This power source produces no carbon dioxide during plant operation, meaning it doesn't contribute to climate change via greenhouse gas emissions. ...
Energy & Green Tech
May 21, 2015
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In a barren landscape of scrub just off a major Utah highway, a 10-foot-deep pit the size of about 75 football fields could soon house a kind of nuclear waste that grows more radioactive for 2 million years.
Energy & Green Tech
May 11, 2015
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Associated with contamination in certain spots around the world, pentavalent neptunium does not always behave the same as its stand-in when moving through the soil, according to scientists at University of Notre Dame and ...
Materials Science
May 8, 2015
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