On September 17, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced the re-opening of its Arctic Energy Office (AEO), which was originally established in 2001, but failed to take off due to insufficient funding. Senator Murkowski (R-AK) pushed for the re-establishment of this office in the 2020 Energy and Water Appropriations Bill, which supported the “promotion
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The Rise of Floating Reactors
By Amy Roma & Sachin Desai on
Last week China announced the launch of a company to build twenty (20) floating nuclear power stations. Russia continues to move forward with its floating nuclear power station, which are to be mass-produced at shipbuilding facilities and then towed to areas in need of power. In fact, it is working towards initial fuel load on…