Nuclear Power’s New Momentum: Faster Reactors, Lower Costs and a Path Forward on Waste
After decades of stalled projects, high costs and unresolved waste problems, U.S. nuclear power may be entering a new era. Advanced reactor projects are moving ahead more quickly, while international experience shows that nuclear plants can be built far less expensively than recent American projects.
At the same time, Washington is exploring new ways to break the nuclear-waste stalemate by working with willing states. Together, these developments suggest that technology, economics and policy may finally be aligning—creating the conditions for a new generation of American nuclear power.
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Office of Nuclear Energy Celebrates Fifth Advanced Reactor Criticality
From the Office of Nuclear Energy
Oklo’s Groves Isotope Test Reactor successfully achieved criticality, becoming the fifth DOE-authorized reactor to go critical this summer.
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Oklo’s test reactor will inform the development of a future commercial variant designed to produce isotopes for medicine, advanced manufacturing, scientific research, space exploration, and national security needs.
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Nuclear Power Is NOT Inherently Expensive
China has just announced its plan to build another eight nuclear reactors to add to its growing fleet. The cost of building a nuclear power plant in China (and likewise, in South Korea) is dramatically cheaper than building them in the USA. It’s a cop-out to say that that’s because the USA’s nuclear plants are safer and thus more costly.
For almost fifty years the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission has hamstrung nuclear power development in myriad ways
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Leaked White House plan aims to end US nuclear waste deadlock by bringing states on board
The proposal seeks to end the long-standing dependence on Nevada's Yucca Mountain as the only legally designated site for permanent nuclear waste storage.
The United States is preparing a major overhaul of its decades-old nuclear waste policy as it pushes for a sharp expansion of nuclear power. . .The proposal seeks to end the long-standing dependence on Nevada's Yucca Mountain as the only legally designated site for permanent nuclear waste storage.
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