I have been a PhD scientist in the field of the earth and environmental sciences for 35 years, and am a Forbes contributor at forbes.com/sites/jamescon…
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11 Feb 2022
Getting critical metals like Li, Co and Ni is hard without pollution and social justice issues. Seabed mining seems to be the best. #OneOceanSummit @themetalsco @NOAA @NASAEarth @AGU_Eos @NRG_EDU @OECD @World_Wildlife forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/…
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3 Feb 2022
Transactive energy coordination uses large-scale flexible distributed energy sources, like air conditioners, water heaters, batteries, and electric vehicles, to help balance the new electric grid @NRG_EDU @ANS_org @PNNLab @ENERGY @EIAgov @WPUDA @IEA @NEI forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/…
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27 Jan 2022
Energy Vault has commercialized the ultimate energy storage technology using gravitational potential energy @NRG_EDU @ANS_org @EnergyVaultInc @EIAgov @IEA @ENERGY @WPUDA forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/…
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18 Jan 2022
The United States and Canada have a lot to collaborate on in the nuclear energy field, and they seem to be doing a good job of it. @NRG_EDU @ANS_org @ENERGY @TerrestrialMSR forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/…
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14 Jan 2022
Deep Isolation borehole technology for disposing of nuclear waste looks to be good for Slovenia as well as the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Croatia @DeepIsolation @Bechtel @EPRINews @ENERGY @NRG_EDU @NEI @NuclearBuzz @iaeaorg forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/…
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3 Jan 2022
Can you answer this 2022 energy quiz? @NuclearBuzz @ENERGY #futureofenergy #energychat @NRG_EDU @NEI @EIAgov @ans_org forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/…
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17 Dec 2021
Fluor-owned NuScale Power will go public through a merger with a SPAC, providing a $1.9 billion valuation @NuScale_Power @FluorCorp @EnergyNorthwest @NRCgov @NRG_EDU @ENERGY @ans_org forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/…
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15 Dec 2021
Centrus and Clean Core Thorium Energy develop new nuclear fuel by combining Th with HALEU @CentrusEnergy @cleancoreenergy @TAMUNUEN @TAMU @INL @ThorconPower @NRG_EDU @ANS_org @ENERGY @worldnuclear @NRCgov @CascadiaCA forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/…
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6 Dec 2021
NASA needs a small nuclear reqactor to move to the next phase of human exploration @NRG_EDU @ANS.org @PNNLab @worldnuclear @Gen_Atomic @ENERGY forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/…
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23 Nov 2021
Nuclear gets about $25 billion in Biden’s Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act @cleancoreenergy @TAMUNUEN @TAMU @INL @NRG_EDU @ANS_org @ENERGY @worldnuclear forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/…
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12 Nov 2021
As COP26 wraps up this week, the elephant in the room was why nuclear power was excluded from the adult’s table. @NRG_EDU @ANS_org @COP26 @EIAgov @ENERGY @iaeaorg @IEA @NEI @W_Nuclear_News forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/…
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9 Nov 2021
A Seattle fusion company, Helion, has reached 100,000,000°C, recently raised $500 million and looks to generate electricity by 2024 @ans_org @EnergyNorthwest @NuScale_Power @NRG_EDU @ARPAE @ENERGY @PNNLab forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/…
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1 Nov 2021
Eielson Air Force Base was selected by the U.S. Air Force to receive its first nuclear microreactor, a nuclear power plant of up to 5 MWe @USNavy @NavyTimes @TheBTI @energydialogue @NRG_EDU @ENERGY @NEI @NRCgov forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/…
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30 Oct 2021
140,000-sq-ft $90-million energy science research facility dedicated at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory @PNNLab @ENERGY @NRG_EDU @ANS_org forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/…
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26 Oct 2021
Stunning survey results show Americans can come together on key issues, especially when politicians get out of the way, even on nuclear @StanfordCDDRL @NRG_EDU @ANS_org @NORCNews @MoveCAFWD @intogethermedia @GHPartnership @FutureHouston forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/…
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15 Oct 2021
Australia has declared that the national nuclear waste storage facility will be at Napandee @ausgov @NRG_EDU @ANS_org #Barngarla forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/…
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6 Oct 2021
A new nuclear fuel, ANEEL from CLEAN CORE, has been fabricated at TAMU, and could move global nuclear power forward much faster @cleancoreenergy @TAMUNUEN @TAMU @INL @ThorconPower @NRG_EDU @ANS_org @ENERGY @worldnuclear @NRCgov @CascadiaCA forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/…
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30 Sep 2021
This summer NASA marked the 60th anniversary of a nuclear-powered spaceflight. The Transit IV-A used satellite with a radioisotope-powered generator @neiltyson @NASA @NRG_EDU @ENERGY @ANS_org @PNNLab @worldnuclear @Gen_Atomic forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/…
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29 Sep 2021
Teaching our children how to care for the environment is a meme of its own @NRG_EDU @ANS_org forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/…
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