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Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. announced it has reached 100 percent renewable electricity across all of its global sites as of the first quarter of 2024, significantly ahead of the original target date. In 2020, Charles River became one of the first 300 members of RE100, a global corporate renewable energy initiative, and committed to operating on 100 percent renewable electricity globally by 2030. Today, Charles River joins a small group of leading companies that have achieved this goal organization-wide in accordance with RE100’s standardized reporting criteria. [Learn More] read more

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Kyle Hill, a YouTuber known for professionally produced science videos, has filmed a documentary at the Dresden Generating Station in Illinois that provides a rare glimpse into the nuclear power plant and aims to educate viewers on the safety and benefits of nuclear energy. The documentary, transparently named “I Kissed Nuclear Waste To Prove a Point,” is meant to show that “the world looks different when you understand it, and nuclear power and waste, when you understand it, looks less dangerous and more promising than ever,” Hill says. read more

Georgia Power Co. yesterday announced the commercial operation of the first new nuclear reactor built in the US in more 7 years, powering utilities in Georgia, Florida, and Alabama.

The reactor, known as Unit 3, is one of two that began construction in 2009 at Plant Vogtle, southeast of Augusta, and can power 500,000 homes and businesses at full capacity. The reactor was initially expected to start generating power in 2016; however, the project faced delays and unexpected costs, which increased from $14B to $35B. The plant already has two reactors that have been operating since 1987 and 1989. Once all four units are operational—Unit 4 is expected early next year—the site will become the nation’s largest generator of clean energy. Units 3 and 4 are expected to produce about 2,234 megawatts combined, enough to power more than 1 million homes and businesses.  read more

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Three Mile Island, best known for the biggest nuclear accident in US history, is months away from shutting down and throwing nearly 700 people out of work.

Only two of the nuclear plant’s cooling towers still emit steam; the other two have been idle since a partial reactor meltdown in 1979.

The decision by Exelon, the owners, to decommission the plant is symptomatic of the broader crisis in the US nuclear power industry, even though it still provides 20 per cent of the country’s electricity. read more

Lawmakers who support building a nuclear repository at Yucca Mountain have launched an 11th-hour bid to obtain money for the project in must-pass, end-of-year funding legislation.

Read more, https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/pro-yucca-lawmakers-push-for-funding-in-year-end-spending-package/.

[via AP News, December 13, 2018]

LONDON (AP) — As U.S. President Donald Trump re-imposed harsh economic sanctions on Iran last month, hackers scrambled to break into personal emails of American officials tasked with enforcing them, The Associated Press has found — another sign of how deeply cyberespionage is embedded into the fabric of US-Iranian relations.

The AP drew on data gathered by the London-based cybersecurity group Certfa to track how a hacking group often nicknamed Charming Kitten spent the past month trying to break into the private emails of more than a dozen U.S. Treasury officials. Also on the hackers’ hit list: high-profile defenders, detractors and enforcers of the nuclear deal struck between Washington and Tehran, as well as Arab atomic scientists, Iranian civil society figures and D.C. think tank employees. read more

[via Science]