☢️ 🇺🇸 'Congress Just Passed A Major Clean-Energy Bill To Boost Nuclear'

⬛️ It's all on nuclear

🔶️ The Senate voted nearly unanimously Tuesday evening to pass major legislation designed to reverse the American nuclear industry’s decades-long decline and launch a reactor-building spree to meet surging demand for green electricity at home and to catch up with booming rivals overseas.

🔶️ The bill slashes the fees the Nuclear Regulatory Commission charges developers, speeds up the process for licensing new reactors and hiring key staff, and directs the agency to work with foreign regulators to open doors for U.S. exports.

🔶️ In a rare show of bipartisan unity on clean energy, the House of Representatives voted 365 to 36 last month to pass its version of the legislation, called the ADVANCE Act. All but two senators — Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) — supported the bill in Tuesday’s vote or abstained, with a final tally of 88-2. The proposal will now go to the White House, where President Joe Biden is all but certain to sign it into law.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/congress-advance-act-nuclear-power_n_6670a926e4b08889dbe5e626

🇷🇺 FAB-3000: 3-ton high-explosive bomb equipped with 1.4 tons of Trinitrotoluene (TNT) explosive material.

🔶️ Now also guided with UMPK kit.

🔶️ This kit allows the bomb to be guided and extend its range to up to 80 km when dropped from aircraft.

📎 Clash Report

🇬🇧 💷 Muslim millionaire gives major donation to Reform UK

🔶️ A Muslim entrepreneur has donated hundreds of thousands of pounds to Reform UK, claiming the UK has "lost control of our borders”.

🔶️ The precise amount Zia Yusuf has given to the party has not been disclosed but Reform UK claims it is the biggest donation of their general election campaign so far.

🔶️ As well as being a donor, the BBC understands the 37-year-old will have a public role for Reform UK during the campaign.

🔶️ In an interview with The Telegraph, which first reported the story of his donation, Mr Yusuf said: "I love Britain and I'm a patriot, a British Muslim patriot, which I believe the vast majority of Muslims in the UK are."

🔶️ Mr Yusuf, who earned an estimated £31m from selling his luxury concierge app Velocity Black last year, told the BBC he believed "unsustainable" net migration levels were making it harder for legal migrants to integrate and overwhelming the NHS.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd11xxn833yo

🗳 🇬🇧 Rishi Sunak's Conservative Party on X: "Don't wake up to this on 5th July."

📝 Steve Laws: "Literally your border policy"

📎 Conservatives

• China intends to build 150 new nuclear reactors between 2020 and 2035, with 27 currently under construction and the average construction timeline for each reactor about seven years, far faster than for most other nations.

• China has commenced operation of the world’s first fourth-generation nuclear reactor, for which China asserts it developed some 90 percent of the technology.

• China is leading in the development and launch of cost-competitive small modular reactors (SMRs).

• Overall, analysts assess that China likely stands 10 to 15 years ahead of the United States in its ability to deploy fourth-generation nuclear reactors at scale.

• China’s innovation strengths in nuclear power pertain especially to organizational, systemic, and incremental innovation. Many fourth-generation nuclear technologies have been known for years, but China’s state-backed approach excels at fielding them.

• Analysts assess that America and China are likely at par when it comes to efforts to develop nuclear fusion technologies, but warn that China’s demonstrated ability to deploy fission reactors at scale gives it an advantage for when fusion comes online.

• Looking narrowly at scientific publications on nuclear energy, China ranks first in the H-index, a commonly used metric measuring the scholarly impact of journal publications.

• From 2008 to 2023, China’s share of all nuclear patents increased from 1.3 percent to 13.4 percent, and the country leads in the number of nuclear fusion patent applications.

https://itif.org/publications/2024/06/17/how-innovative-is-china-in-nuclear-power/

🇨🇳⚡️China is becoming the world's "first major electrostate", with 30% of its total energy consumption coming from electricity (vs about 18% for the rest of the world) and electrifying "nine times faster than the rest of the world".

https://rmi.org/insight/x-change-the-race-to-the-top/

📎 Arnaud Bertrand

🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 The U.S. "has made the difficult but necessary decision to reprioritize near-term planned deliveries of foreign military sales" to other countries of Patriot and NASAM missiles to go to Ukraine instead, per John Kirby - Lara Seligman

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/06/20/ukraine-air-defense-systems-00164233