Nuclear Power and the Clean Energy Transition was the focus of 2020’s IAEA Scientific Forum. Leading scientists and experts from around the world met to examine how nuclear power’s science-based
Continue readingDriving deeper decarbonization with nuclear energy
Nuclear energy is an important part of the global clean energy supply, providing nearly one-third of the world’s non-emitting electricity and complementing and enabling other clean energy sources, including renewables.
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The next generation of civilian nuclear technologies—especially small modular reactors (SMRs) and micro nuclear reactors (MNRs)—can advance the US national security mission by providing reliable, resilient power of certain military
LucidCatalyst has produced a quantitative and sobering analysis of what it would take to fully decarbonize “difficult-to-decarbonize” areas of industry such as aviation, shipping, cement production and industrial activities that
America has lost its competitive global position as the world leader in nuclear energy to state-owned enterprises, notably Russia and China, with other competitor nations also aggressively moving to surpass
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By the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) on Sept. 3, 2019. How can the world achieve the deep carbon emissions reductions that are necessary to slow or reverse the impacts of
Continue readingThe Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World
In 2003, MIT published the interdisciplinary study The Future of Nuclear Power. The under-lying motivation was that nuclear energy, which then provided about 70% of the “zero”-carbon electricity in the
To achieve energy security and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reduction objectives, the United States must develop and deploy clean, affordable, domestic energy sources as quickly as possible. Nuclear power will
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