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Public-Private Partnership Seeks to Boost Development, Licensing of Small Modular Reactors
Three Memorandums of Agreement (MOA) between the U.S. government entities and private companies signed on Friday will seek to leverage Savannah River’s land assets and energy facilities near Aiken, S.C., to support potential private sector development, testing, and licensing of prototype small modular reactor (SMR) technologies.
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DOE Announces $180M Funding Opportunity for Offshore Wind Development
Energy Secretary Steven Chu on Thursday announced a planned six-year $180 million initiative—including an initial commitment of $20 million this year—to accelerate the deployment of four offshore wind power projects in the U.S. The funds are subject to congressional appropriations.
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Business
Investing in Information to Respond to a Changing Climate
Putting more money and effort into information and information technology will pay solid returns when it comes to understanding and adapting to the world around us, including our changing climate.
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Finance
Buying and Selling Energy Trading Portfolios
The energy trading business is changing as Wall Street adjusts to the requirements of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. What does that mean to you?
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Business
The Case of the Disappearing Server Hugger
Is your organization being held back by a “server hugger?”
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HR
Workplace Drama: Seven Tips for Reducing Workplace Negativity
Eliminating the negative and accentuating the positive in the workplace. Here’s the roadmap.
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Commentary
EPA Makes the Best Case for State Regulation
A lot of attention has focused recently on federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing through the Environmental Protection Agency. But EPA’s ineptitude in air regulation makes a case for state-by-state regulation of oil and gas drilling.
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Commentary
Another Billionz Update: NOAA Discovers Inflation
Is a changing climate producing greater economic losses from weather events? Or could it be a simple matter of inflation?
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Commentary
Project Leadership for Project Management
We always talk about project management but rarely discuss project leadership. There’s a difference.
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Commentary
It Can Happen Here
When the Soviet Union’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded in 1986, the response of the Western nuclear industry was, “It can’t happen here.” And then there was Fukushima Daiichi disaster in 2011. Was one disaster worse than the other?