Category: Nuclear

Britain’s £150 billion grid rebuild is being sold as the price of cheap, clean power. The more useful question is whether the country is paying to lock in an expensive, weather-dependent system after already shutting the firm plants that used to keep prices and industry competitive.

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The National Energy System Operator’s figures put transmission investment at about £64 billion through 2030 and another £89 billion after that—more than £150 billion in all. The Guardian’s mapping of official recommendations points to well over 4,000 miles of new power lines by 2041, plus subsea cables and converter stations to move Scottish and offshore […]

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Net Zero Has Done More Harm to the West—and the Atmosphere—While Benefiting China

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How a policy sold as climate leadership transferred industrial power, energy security, and emissions to Beijing. David Blackmon put it as bluntly as anyone in energy journalism has: every facet of the West’s net-zero obsession and taxpayer-subsidized “energy transition” is designed, in practice, to benefit one country. That country is China. On September 20, 2026, […]

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Laser Enrichment: America’s Path to Nuclear Fuel Independence

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In this episode of the Energy News Beat Podcast, host Stu Turley sits down with Christo Liebenberg, President, Co-Founder, and Chief Technical Advisor of LIS Technologies, to explore one of the most promising solutions to America’s nuclear fuel crisis. As global demand for nuclear power accelerates—driven by AI data centers, electrification, and climate imperatives—the U.S. […]

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Unlocking America’s nuclear gold mine: The promise of spent fuel

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ENB Pub Note: This article first ran on America Outloud by Ronald Stein, Olivia Vaugh and Steve Curtis, and we recommend following all of them.  The recent shift in the national conversation around nuclear-generated electricity is encouraging. After decades of political hesitation, federal and state leaders are once again speaking positively about nuclear power’s role […]

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Net Zero is the root cause of deindustrialization as Germany’s Volkswagen cuts 100K jobs

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Volkswagen’s board has approved the largest restructuring in the company’s 89-year history: about 100,000 jobs gone by 2030, a slashed model lineup, and four German plants—Emden, Zwickau, Hanover, and Audi’s Neckarsulm—facing a phased wind-down between 2031 and 2034. That is not a cyclical downturn. It is what happens when energy policy prices a manufacturing nation […]

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Net Zero wanted to shut coal down. Net Zero now extends coal.

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Australia’s official grid planner has rewritten the script. The Australian Energy Market Operator’s 2026 Integrated System Plan still describes renewables, storage, transmission and gas backup as the “least-cost” path to 2050. The same documents show coal staying until 2049, wind delivery falling well short of earlier ambition, transmission scaled back after cost blowouts of up […]

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