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(Reuters) - Britain will allow two nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point where cracks were found to resume limited operations ahead of their scheduled closure in 2022, the sector’s regulator said on Wednesday.
Operated by France’s EDF, the two reactors at Hinkley Point B power station in Somerset, southwest England, will each be allowed to operate for two periods of approximately six months each, the Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) said.
The reactors were halted in February and June 2020 and inspections have found cracks in graphite bricks in the reactors’ cores.
The 480-megawatt (MW) reactors will undergo inspections between each period of operation to ensure the cracking does not compromise safety requirements, the ONR said.
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FRANKFURT, March 16 (Reuters) - Germany and Canada agreed on Tuesday to explore the joint development of green hydrogen from Canadian hydroelectric power for export to Germany.
Germany wants to scale up hydrogen as an alternative to fossil fuels for mass applications in industry and energy to meet climate targets, but lacks land resources to produce enough green power for use in the necessary electrolysis process.
Green hydrogen is a zero-carbon fuel made by electrolysis, using renewable power from wind and solar to split water into hydrogen and oxygen.
Canada’s minister of natural resources, Seamus O’Regan, said in a webcast that “Canada has the benefit of natural resources and the urgency of lowering emissions,” while Germany’s economy minister Peter Altmaier said that both countries had identical ambitions to reach climate neutrality by 2050.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Energy generator RWE is looking at ways to cut carbon emissions from its Pembroke gas plant in Wales and investigating the feasibility of a green hydrogen unit in the region after receiving government funding, it said on Wednesday.
The British government said earlier it will allocate funding to projects in Scotland, South Wales and the North West, Humber and Teesside in England to help decarbonise industry.
That will include projects to capture, store and use carbon emissions, and those to use cleaner fuels such as hydrogen.
The so-called South Wales Industrial Cluster - a consortium of which RWE is a member - received 20 million pounds ($28 million) for projects to create a net zero emissions industrial cluster zone in the region by 2040.
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TORONTO/MELBOURNE (Reuters) - Miners from Australia to Canada are expanding operations despite concerns from indigenous groups about damage to wildlife, water supplies and religious sites, rankling investors who are pressuring the industry to improve its environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards.
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Prices for gold, copper and iron ore, which have recently hit record or multi-year highs, have spurred a hunt for growth that risks ignoring lessons the industry should have learned after the destruction of the Juukan Gorge caves in Australia by Rio Tinto last year, according to institutional investors.
This is the second wave of pressure that investors concerned about ESG issues have laid on miners after successfully forcing mine waste standards updates in 2020, after a 2019 tailings dam collapse that killed 270 people in Brazil. “I don’t think there’s an option of not changing behaviors,” said Adam Matthews of the Church of England P
Planned investment in clean energy must increase by 30% to a total of $131 trillion by 2050 to avert catastrophic climate change, with the need to massively scale up hydrogen production particularly acute, according to a study https://www.irena.org/publications/2021/March.