Toyota to build $1.29B US battery plant employing 1,750
Toyota plans to build a new $1.29 billion factory in the U.S. to manufacture batteries for gas-electric hybrid and fully electric vehicles.
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Energy & Green Tech
Nuclear option: Earth's climate panacea or poison?
For its supporters, nuclear energy is the world's best—perhaps only—hope to avoid catastrophic climate change. Opponents say it is too expensive, too risky and totally unnecessary.
Oct 11, 2021
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What the explosion in uranium prices means for the nuclear industry
It is a year since Horizon Nuclear Power, a company owned by Hitachi, confirmed it was pulling out of building the £20 billion Wylfa nuclear power plant on Anglesey in north Wales. The Japanese industrial conglomerate cited ...
Sep 27, 2021
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France's EDF in talks with GE to buy nuclear turbine ops
French electricity giant EDF is in talks with General Electric to buy its steam turbine business for nuclear plants, the companies confirmed Wednesday, the latest move by the American conglomerate to streamline its operations ...
Sep 22, 2021
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Fukushima plant failed to probe cause of faulty filters
Officials at Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant have acknowledged they neglected to investigate the cause of faulty exhaust filters that are key to preventing radioactive pollution, after being forced to replace ...
Sep 14, 2021
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IAEA: Science key to Fukushima plant water release
Objective, science-based monitoring is the key to safely carrying out the planned release of treated but still radioactive water at Japan's wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, an International Atomic Energy Agency official said ...
Sep 9, 2021
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UN nuclear watchdog launches review of Fukushima water release
The UN nuclear watchdog on Thursday promised a "comprehensive" and "objective" review of Japan's controversial plan to release treated water from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea.
Sep 9, 2021
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Automotive
Toyota to spend $13.6 billion on electric car batteries by 2030
Toyota said Tuesday it will invest $13.6 billion into batteries for electric and hybrid cars by 2030, as the world's biggest automaker pushes to make its production carbon-neutral.
Sep 7, 2021
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IAEA seeks Japan transparency in release of Fukushima water
Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency asked Japan on Tuesday for full and detailed information about a plan to release treated but still radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean.
Sep 7, 2021
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IAEA team in Japan to help prepare Fukushima water release
An International Atomic Energy Agency mission arrived in Japan on Monday to help prepare for a decades-long release into the ocean of treated but still radioactive water from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, officials ...
Sep 6, 2021
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