US, Japan leaders sign rare earths, nuclear power deal
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NextEra agreed to sell Google electricity from Duane Arnold for 25 years. NextEra is also buying out the plant’s minority owners, Central Iowa Power Cooperative and Corn Belt Power Cooperative, and will sell the remaining electricity from the plant to CIPCO on the same terms Google receives.
Fermi’s stock fell below its IPO price last week but is bouncing back on positive comments from analysts and pacts with South Korean companies for its planned nuclear plants.
Once again, nuclear power seemed hopeless, at least in the U.S. Yet over the same period, China built 13 similar reactors, with 33 more underway. And Beijing’s nuclear ambitions are global. China is quickly becoming the global leader in nuclear power,
China is emerging as a fierce competitor to the US in the race to build small modular reactors and fusion that can help power data centers.
The tech giant is reviving the Duane Arnold Energy Center, the latest big tech move to fuel expansive artificial intelligence ambitions.
Google has agreed to buy power from a shuttered nuclear plant in Iowa to help power its data centers, the latest in a trend of defunct reactors that are coming back to life.
Nuclear-related stocks have seen significant positive momentum this year. Nuclear-focused ETFs have seen some of the strongest inflows within the broader energy complex. Read more
Almost 40 years on the world's worst-ever nuclear accident, animals still roam the exclusion zone that remains off limits to humans - but some of the 700 dogs now have blue fur