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Wyoming emerges as early industry leader in advanced nuclear
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In the four months since TerraPower and Rocky Mountain Power announced plans to build an advanced nuclear facility at a retiring Wyoming coal plant, the state has emerged as an early industry leader.
Read the entire article by Nicole Pollack Casper Star-Tribune, Oct 8, 2021
Renewable Energy Paradox: Solar Panels and Their Toxic Waste
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Cradle-to-grave solar panels are not as "green" as we are led to believe.
To give you some idea of the scale of the problem, you can peruse some interesting data provided here. To give you the gist of it, this study, conducted by environmental journalists who favor nuclear power found that solar panels (over their lifetime) create somewhere in the region of 300 times more toxic waste per unit of energy than nuclear power plants.
Avoiding water bankruptcy in the drought-troubled Southwest: What the US and Iran can learn from each other
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In a few months, Arizona will lose about a fifth of its Colorado River water as new use restrictions begin, and farms and cities are scrambling to find new sources.
Air pollution linked to millions of birth complications across the globe
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Scientists estimate millions of preterm births and underweight newborns worldwide can be attributed to long-term exposure to air pollution.
Every year, an estimated seven million people die from air pollution across the globe. Now, new research shows that air pollution is not only a health threat to everyone in the world, but also to those who have not yet arrived.
State, federal actions show growing push for a nuclear role in reaching net zero emissions
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Questions about nuclear power's costs and safety that kept it at 18% to 20.6% of U.S. electricity generation from 1990 to 2020 left little support for new plants. But extreme weather-driven disasters and predictions of much worse in the recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are driving new thinking about existing plants.
States with 100% Clean Energy Goals
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States with 100% Clean Energy Goals
These states have serious energy goals.
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