2018-02-02 12:12:00
CHINA GOES NUCLEAR
REUTERS - China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC), China's No. 2 nuclear power producer, will take over the country's top nuclear power plant builder to create a company worth almost $100 billion, the latest state-orchestrated marriage in the nation's vast power sector.
The deal has been in works for almost a year as Beijing has pushed to streamline its bloated state-owned enterprise (SOE) sector, tackle rising corporate debt and make businesses more profitable through mergers, reductions in excess capacity and the closure of "zombie" firms.
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2019, December, 9, 13:08:00
Green Workplace Summit 11 December 2019
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2019, December, 9, 13:05:00
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2019, December, 9, 13:00:00
NUCLEAR POWER FOR CO2 CUTTING
A new report by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology examined various scenarios for the decarbonization of the nation’s electricity sector. The MIT researcher’s simulations showed that availability of nuclear powered generation would help reduce the needed carbon price by up to 67 percent (to less than $40 per ton) in meeting a 90-percent reduction target (below 2005 levels) by 2050.
2019, December, 9, 12:55:00
RUSSIA'S NUCLEAR FOR IRAN STOPPED
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2019, December, 9, 12:45:00
U.S. UNEMPLOYMENT 3.5%
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2019, December, 9, 12:40:00
WORLDWIDE RIG COUNT DOWN 81 TO 2,042
The worldwide rig count for November 2019 was 2,042, down 81 from the 2,123 counted in October 2019, and down 224 from the 2,266 counted in November 2018.