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energyTaiwan is Still Moving to Shutdown Nuclear Reactor Despite Pro-Nuclear Vote

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December 7, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
Taiwan’s recent election passed a pro-nuclear measure with a 59-41 majority. The will of the Taiwan people was to stop the phasing out of nuclear power. The ruling DPP party has an anti-nuclear power policy and passed a law in …
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chinaFuture Trade War Balance of Power From Now to 2055

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December 1, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
The Trade Wars have revealed that true power is consumer market spending power and having control of key production and production inputs. Economic power is consumer market power and lack of production supply chain weaknesses. Trade War Reveals Production Dependence …
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koreaProgress to Peace Between North and South Korea

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November 28, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
South Korean newspaper Hankyoreh estimates that North and South Korea have already fully implemented nine out of 25 agreement reached in a pair of summits between Korea’s leaders in April and September. 36% of the two statements implemented, 52% being …
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climateAverage American Family Emits Over Four Hot Air Balloon Volumes of CO2 per Year

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November 28, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
The UN Emissions Gap Report shows that global emissions have reached another record high level of 53.5 billion tons of CO2 equivalent. Only 57 countries (representing 60 percent of global emissions) are on track to reach a peak in emissions …
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energyTaiwan Votes for Nuclear Power

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November 24, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
Taiwanese voters on Saturday decisively rejected the government’s phase-out of nuclear power, 59% to 41%. After shutting down a nuclear reactor, Taiwan had a black-out in 2017 that threatened the vital semiconductor industry. A Trend Survey Research poll commissioned by …
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nuclearRussia claiming reusable nuclear rocket progress

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November 14, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
Russia is claiming progress on a megawatt nuclear space propulsion engine. They had previously stated the system would be ready by 2017. Ruscosmos is about a reusable gas-cooled fission reactor that powers a generator. This would power a plasma thruster. …
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militaryOrbital Kinetic Bombardment gets close to nuclear on damage and cost

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November 11, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
As of 2017, the US has an estimated 4,018 nuclear weapons in either deployment or storage. The US plans to spend $1.2 trillion to modernize the nuclear arsenal over the next 30 years. Two-thirds of the nuclear weapons budget will …
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canadaTerrestrial Energy is a leader in commercializing next gen nuclear technology

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November 9, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
Terrestrial Energy is leading the way to getting regulatory approvals for its molten salt fission reactor design and has built up an industrial board representing 10 of the largest Nuclear Reactor companies for advice it on its path to market. …
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nuclearRace for Antimatter gravitational experiment this month

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November 4, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
The ALPHA collaboration is an international team of researchers who study antihydrogen. They have built a detector that will determine the mass and gravitational effects on antimatter hydrogen. They will produce very precise measurements of physical characteristics and behavior of …
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chinaWorld environment and China’s energy from now to 2050

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November 2, 2018 | Brian Wang |
 
China is building most of the new energy generation in the world. How this power is generated will shape global climate. 1.5 degree scenario requires China to build 500 GW or more of nuclear power by 2050 Nuclear power capacity …
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