A team of remarkable energy experts from MIT and Stanford University, using no fossil fuel funding, conducted an assessment of Diablo Canyon to look at the question of whether or
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The majority of studies on the future of the hydrogen sector in GB focus electrolytic H2 from RES and fossil based H2 with CCS. The potential for nuclear to participate
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The deployment of advanced nuclear technologies is anticipated to be part of the actions required to mitigate global climate change. The successful deployment of these new technologies, like all new
Continue readingSocial License for Deployment of Advanced Nuclear
Three teams of energy system experts, using three different optimization models of California’s electricity system, sought to quantify the costs of a number of different future scenarios for new sources
According to the authors of a study released in late December, out of 2 TWe of coal power plant capacity in operation globally today, more than half is less than
The Net Zero America study aims to inform and ground political, business, and societal conversations regarding what it would take for the U.S. to achieve an economy-wide target of net-zero
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 Goldman School of Public Policy’s Center for Environmental Public Policy, housed at UC Berkeley, with help from GridLab, took a look at the current very conservative estimates for decarbonization
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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