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U.S. Energy Department Invests Small-Scale Nuclear Reactors

2013-12-13 19:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Yale Environment 360: Small, nearly meltdown-proof nuclear reactors are receiving a big boost from the U.S. Department of Energy. The department will give a company in Corvallis, Oregon, as much as $226 million to develop so-called "small modular reactors," which can be used with many local power grids that can't accommodate conventional nuclear reactors. Because of the extremely low likelihood of meltdown, the next-generation, small-scale reactors are safer than many currently operating reactors, engineers say. The company,...

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California Energy Commission awards $1.1M to 12 small-scale projects to study transportation, natural gas and electricity technologies

2013-12-13 13:38:17| Green Car Congress

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'It's the small-scale producers who feed the world promote and protect them'

2013-10-02 12:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: I was the training and admission officer of Caritas Sri Lanka from 1991-1997. During my time there, my director asked me to organise fishing communities under one wider network, through which I would arrange charitable activities such as sharing boats, front campaigns and undertake advocacy work. My superiors then became unhappy about the fact that some of my work meant going against government policies, so they asked me to keep quiet and discontinue my involvement with the network I had been building....

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