Can Advanced Nuclear Repower Coal Country?
With nearly a quarter of the U.S. coal-fired fleet scheduled to retire by 2029, replacing retiring coal power plants with advanced nuclear, specifically small modular reactors (SMR), has been put forth as a strategy to maintain local employment and economic opportunities for existing energy workers and communities, while simultaneously pursuing national climate goals. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) recent and groundbreaking certification of the country’s first SMR design pushes the technology closer to maturity. As SMRs shift toward commercial deployment, identifying the existing opportunities and hurdles is vital to create a pathway for future coal-to-nuclear transition projects.
Nuclear Now: Time to look again
Climate change refers to long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, mainly caused by human activities, especially the burning of fossil fuels.
NUCLEAR NOW takes viewers on a mind-opening journey with legendary director Oliver Stone as he reveals the true history of nuclear energy and its potential to solve climate change. The looming climate crisis remains unresolved, and the volume of carbon-free electricity needed over the next 30 years is almost unimaginable. This film aims to remove the fears associated with nuclear energy and highlight the sustainability and affordability it can bring in the pursuit of restoring the world’s ecosystems and economies.
In Theaters April 28, 2023. Learn more at https://www.nuclearnowfilm.com/
The Great Green Energy Transition Is Impossible
Several months ago, I asked California State Senator Anthony Portantino's office -- and California Assemblywoman Laura Friedman's office, and Los Angeles County Supervisor Lynn Barger's office, and Congressman Adam Schiff's office, and Senator Dianne Feinstein's office, and Senator Alex Padilla's office, and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm's office -- for a report of a comprehensive quantitative system-engineering life-cycle analysis of an all-renewable energy system. Nobody sent a report. I suspect it doesn't exist. But nobody was polite enough to reply “Sorry, we don’t have such a report.”
The Real Obstacle to Nuclear Power
It’s not environmentalists—it’s the nuclear-power industry itself.
Kairos Power’s new test facility is on a parched site a few miles south of the Albuquerque, New Mexico, airport. Around it, desert stretches toward hazy mountains on the horizon. The building looks like a factory or a warehouse; nothing about it betrays the moonshot exercise happening within.
GE Hitachi and 3 partners announce first commercial contract for grid-scale SMR in North America
GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy, Ontario Power Generation, SNC-Lavalin and Aecon Group signed a contract to deploy a BWRX-300 small modular reactor at OPG’s Darlington New Nuclear Project site in Clarington, Ontario.
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- KAERI Visit of Dr. Yoon Chang
- Efforts to Transform US Nuclear Industry Entering Full Bloom
- Tom's New Book
- What role does nuclear power play in the U.S. effort to cut greenhouse gas emissions?
- Interview with Bill Gates on Nuclear Energy and Reaching Net Zero
- DOE Selects Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Design for Versatile Test Reactor in Idaho
- Fareed's Take: How to fight climate change now
- Reminiscences Of Reactor Development at Argonne National Laboratory
- Soaring demand for electricity and coal shows why we need nuclear energy
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