Re-Use of Coal Plants for Decarbonization
Accorrding 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
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Driving deeper decarbonization with nuclear energy
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
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Flexible Nuclear Energy for Clean Energy Systems
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 2035 Report
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
Restoring America’s Competitive Nuclear Energy Advantage
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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IPCC Special Report: Global Warming of 1.5 ºC
The IPCC issued a Special Report in November 2018 entitled Global Warming of 1.5 ºC which reported on “the impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels and
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The Future of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
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
Nuclear Energy Research and Development Roadmap
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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