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
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