{"id":125587,"date":"2024-11-14T03:16:57","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T20:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=125587"},"modified":"2024-11-14T03:16:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T20:16:57","slug":"can-the-us-triple-its-nuclear-energy-capacity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=125587","title":{"rendered":"Can the US triple its nuclear energy capacity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">The US has a new roadmap for massively ramping up how much electricity it gets from nuclear reactors. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">The Biden administration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/ostp\/news-updates\/2024\/11\/12\/biden-%E2%81%A0harris-administration-establishes-bold-u-s-government-targets-for-safely-and-responsibly-expanding-u-s-nuclear-energy-and-announces-framework-for-action-to-achieve-these-targets\/\">released<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/US-Nuclear-Energy-Deployment-Framework.pdf\">document<\/a> on Tuesday, but with President-elect Donald Trump heading back into the White House, there\u2019s no telling whether the plan will ever become a reality. That said, the nuclear industry has gained a fair amount of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/6\/19\/24181808\/congress-pass-nuclear-energy-bill-biden-signature\">bipartisan support<\/a> \u2014 not to mention buy-in from big tech. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">For now, nuclear energy makes up nearly 20 percent of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/tools\/faqs\/faq.php?id=427&amp;t=3\">US\u2019s electricity mix<\/a>. That\u2019s roughly the same amount of electricity the US gets from renewables like wind and solar. The rest \u2014 60 percent of electricity in the US \u2014 comes from fossil fuels. Another way to think of it is that nuclear reactors generate nearly half of the nation\u2019s carbon pollution-free power. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component clear-both block md:float-left md:mr-30 md:w-[320px] lg:-ml-100\">\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-pullquote mb-20\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup relative bg-repeating-lines-dark bg-[length:1px_1.2em] pb-8 font-polysans text-28 font-medium leading-120 tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20  dark:bg-repeating-lines-light dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple\">The nuclear industry has gained a fair amount of bipartisan support \u2014 not to mention buy-in from big tech<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">There are still big environmental concerns about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/jan\/23\/us-uranium-mine-grand-canyon\">mining uranium<\/a> for fuel rods as well as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2018\/8\/28\/17765538\/san-onofre-nuclear-generating-station-radioactive-spent-fuel-waste-yucca-mountain\">radioactive waste<\/a> from nuclear power plants. Nevertheless, nuclear energy has garnered support from some environmental groups and the Biden administration as a way to generate electricity without producing greenhouse gas emissions. It\u2019s also seen as a steady energy supply that can fill in when wind and solar energy fluctuate. The US joined an international <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2023\/12\/2\/23985463\/countries-are-ramping-up-nuclear-energy-ambitions\">commitment last year<\/a> to triple renewable energy capacity globally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">The White House laid out a target yesterday of installing 200 gigawatts of new nuclear energy capacity by 2050, at least three times as much as the US had in 2020. There are interim goals, starting with deploying 35GW of new capacity by 2035 and then ramping up to add 15GW per year by 2040. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">That\u2019s no easy task. Nuclear energy in the US comes from an aging fleet of nuclear power plants. Most of them were built in the 1970s or \u201980s, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/energyexplained\/nuclear\/us-nuclear-industry.php#:~:text=As%20of%20August%201%2C%202023,is%20about%2042%20years%20old.\">average age<\/a> of a nuclear reactor in the US is 42 years old. The nuclear industry faced stigma following high-profile accidents at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/ne\/articles\/5-facts-know-about-three-mile-island\">Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unscear.org\/unscear\/en\/areas-of-work\/chernobyl.html\">Chernobyl in Ukraine<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-56252695\">Fukushima in Japan<\/a>. And over the years, nuclear had trouble competing with more affordable, flexible power sources \u2014 namely gas.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">The\u00a0first newly built nuclear reactor in the US in decades, the Vogtle Unit 3 reactor in Georgia, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/georgia-power-nuclear-reactor-vogtle-9555e3f9169f2d58161056feaa81a425\">came on line in 2023<\/a>. It was seven years past its original deadline and $17 billion over budget. Another new reactor at the same site <a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgiapower.com\/company\/news-hub\/press-releases\/vogtle-unit-4-enters-commercial-operation.html\">started operating<\/a> in April of this year. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eia.gov\/todayinenergy\/detail.php?id=61963\">Construction on those reactors started in 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">High costs, on top of how challenging it can be to site and build a large nuclear plant, have limited the industry\u2019s growth. The industry\u2019s solution has been to start developing next-generation technology, called small modular reactors (SMRs). These advanced reactors are about <a href=\"https:\/\/inl.gov\/trending-topics\/small-modular-reactors\/#:~:text=About%201%2F10%20to%201,in%20size%20according%20to%20configuration.\">one-tenth to one-quarter<\/a> the size of a traditional nuclear energy plant, which is supposed to make them cheaper and easier to construct.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">To reach its nuclear goals, the Biden administration\u2019s roadmap calls for building new reactors, large and small. It also makes the case for renewing licenses to extend the lifetimes of older reactors and even restarting reactors that have been retired.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Big tech, notably, has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/5\/24261405\/google-microsoft-amazon-tech-data-center-nuclear-energy\">giving the industry a leg up<\/a> lately with a slew of new agreements this year to purchase nuclear energy and support the development of advanced reactors. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Microsoft inked a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.constellationenergy.com\/newsroom\/2024\/Constellation-to-Launch-Crane-Clean-Energy-Center-Restoring-Jobs-and-Carbon-Free-Power-to-The-Grid.html\">power purchase agreemen<\/a>t in September to help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/9\/20\/24249770\/microsoft-three-mile-island-nuclear-power-plant-deal-ai-data-centers\">restart a reactor at Three Mile Island<\/a>. Amazon Web Services <a href=\"https:\/\/ir.talenenergy.com\/static-files\/f02c44a9-d2dc-45c1-9331-eee1495f7d2d\">bought a nuclear-powered data center campus<\/a> in Pennsylvania in March. Last month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/16\/24271696\/amazon-nuclear-energy-advanced-reactors\">Amazon announced three more deals<\/a> to help develop SMRs that it might eventually buy electricity from in Washington state and Virginia. Google, meanwhile, announced plans in October to buy electricity from SMRs that would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/10\/15\/24270645\/google-nuclear-energy-deal-small-modular-reactor-kairos\">be built between 2030 and 2035<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Trump is expected to try to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/11\/6\/24288965\/election-trump-president-environment-pollution-climate-change\">undo many of President Joe Biden\u2019s efforts<\/a> to slash greenhouse gas emissions as part of his administration\u2019s planned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/11\/12\/24294483\/donald-trump-ai-data-center-epa-lee-zeldin\">deregulation spree<\/a>. But he\u2019s been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/ne\/photos\/11-accomplishments-trump-administration-advanced-nuclear-energy\">less antagonistic with nuclear energy<\/a> in the past. His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/agenda47\/agenda47-america-must-have-the-1-lowest-cost-energy-and-electricity-on-earth\">Agenda 47<\/a> says he\u2019ll \u201csupport nuclear energy production&#8230; by modernizing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, working to keep existing power plants open, and investing in innovative small modular reactors.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"duet--article--article-body-component\">\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph mb-20 font-fkroman text-18 leading-160 -tracking-1 selection:bg-franklin-20 dark:text-white dark:selection:bg-blurple [&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-franklin dark:[&amp;_a:hover]:shadow-highlight-blurple [&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-black dark:[&amp;_a]:shadow-underline-white\">Then again, anything could happen once Trump steps back into office. He cast some doubt on a nuclear renaissance <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utilitydive.com\/news\/nuclear-energy-sector-mixed-views-second-trump-administration-joe-rogan\/732407\/\">during an interview with Joe Rogan<\/a> on October 25th, saying, \u201cI think there\u2019s a little danger with nuclear.\u201d He was characteristically dismissive of the risks posed by climate change, which research shows is intensifying disasters including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c2es.org\/content\/hurricanes-and-climate-change\/\">storms<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c2es.org\/content\/heat-waves-and-climate-change\/\">heatwaves<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.c2es.org\/content\/drought-and-climate-change\/\">droughts<\/a>. \u201cThe biggest problem in the world today is not global warming,\u201d he said to Rogan. \u201cIt\u2019s nuclear warming.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2024\/11\/13\/24295502\/nuclear-energy-plan-triple-biden-trump\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has a new roadmap for massively ramping up how much electricity it gets from nuclear reactors. 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