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The controversial future of nuclear power in the U.S. National Geographic, 5 May 21, ”……………. In the U.S., a company called NuScale has recently received design certification approval from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for its SMR, the first and only company to do so. Its reactor is a miniaturized version of a traditional reactor, in which pressurized water cools the core where nuclear fission is taking place. But in the NuScale design, the whole reactor is itself immersed in a pool of water designed to protect it from accidental meltdown.
NuScale hopes to build 12 of these reactors to produce 720 megawatts at the Idaho National Laboratory as a pilot project. It’s been supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, which has approved up to $1.4 billion to help demonstrate the technology. NuScale plans to sell the plant to an energy consortium called Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems.
Breakthrough Institute climate sceptics – Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger – ‘bright, shiny objects to some journalists’.
The New Denial Is Delay at the Breakthrough Institute, How ecomodernism’s attempt to revolutionize environmentalism became a tragic slide into techno-hype lobbying and endless bickering with “Big Green”
In 2004, Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger, the founders of a scrappy Bay Area think tank called the Breakthrough Institute, shot to prominence when they published “The Death of Environmentalism,” an essay that argued the environmental movement had failed……….
Because they ….. defined themselves against climate science deniers, they found a sympathetic audience among mainstream intellectuals……….
But it turns out they weren’t so different from run-of-the-mill climate skeptics after all……
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Conservative American Media Prince Turned Israeli Politician: Aaron Klein (https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-hires-breitbart-reporter-aaron-klein-as-new-adviser/)
On June 8, 2020, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu tapped American journalist, Aaron Klein, to be his strategic advisor. Upon receiving the promotion, the young newcomer to office told the Jerusalem Post’s
Gil Hoffman: “Working with Prime Minister Netanyahu is what I’d imagine it would be like to work with Winston Churchill…”