Nuclear energy industry trends 2022
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Next Big Future
The developing world will be going from almost no power to some kind of power. If we do not have something cheaper than coal then they will use coal because
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UCSD News
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Forbes
If we don’t renew the licenses of most of our nuclear power plants for an additional 20 years, bringing their life-spans up to 80 years, we will have no hope of significantly curbing fossil fuel use in America. Both hydro and nuclear plant lifetimes are expected to exceed 80 years. Maintaining existing units cuts the cost of producing electricity in half relative to installing new units of eithe
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MIT Technology Review
New kinds of safer, simpler nuclear reactors are having a hard time becoming a reality—at least in certain countries. Bloomberg reports that the nuclear industry is currently struggling to build out power production facilities that are supposed to make use of new generation III+ pressurized water uranium fission reactors. While generation III reactors have been…
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Vox
New nuclear energy technology has come a long way - but can we get over our fears? This is the fifth episode of Climate Lab, a six-part series produced by th...
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Times of India
India News: On the shores of Bay of Bengal at Kalpakkam near Chennai, Indian nuclear scientists are in the final throes of starting a high-tech giant stove more t
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Foreign Affairs
Most people look to renewables to address climate change. But they miss that renewables are too diffuse and unreliable to power the world. The solution lies in nuclear power, which is cleaner, safer, and more reliable than any other source of energy.
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New Atlas
The first small modular reactor (SMR) application has passed an intensive Phase 1 review by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). The okay for NuScale Power means that plans can progress on a 12-module plant scheduled to go online in Idaho in the middle of the next decade.
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US gov
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Arstechnica
Nuclear becomes more acceptable as carbon emissions become less acceptable.
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Science Alert
The world needs to rethink its plan for addressing climate change.
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The Drive
The power demands to sustain American military operations are only increasing, but small nuclear power plants could present new problems.
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Forbes
Canada’s Terrestrial Energy has assembled a team of partners that makes the success of their molten salt reactor quite likely. Cheaper than coal, producing little waste, is small and modular, operates at low pressure, doesn’t need water, can last for decades, and can’t melt down.
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VisualPolitik EN
After the Fukushima incident, we might say nuclear power is about to disappear from the World. Many countries like Germany have closed their nuclear reactors...
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Geek Wire
If dollars were votes, newly reintroduced legislation aimed at boosting nuclear energy innovation and advanced reactors would be a winner, thanks to Gates’ strong endorsement.
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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Green Tech Media
Advanced nuclear reactors are moving toward commercialization faster and with less government support than many realize. Their smaller size and advances in computing are helping.
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Forbes
ThorCon is a nuclear reactor with molten salt fuel containing thorium+uranium that is walk-away-safe. ThorCon would be completely manufactured in 150 to 500 ton blocks in a shipyard, assembled and towed to a site, with order of magnitude improvements in productivity, quality control, and build time.
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Scientific American
Resilient fuels and innovative reactors could enable a resurgence of nuclear power
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Purdue
Nuclear power plants generate 20% of the nation’s electricity and are the largest clean energy source in the U.S. But to further offset climate change, the nuclear energy sector needs to extend the lifetime of existing facilities as well as build new ones.
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Singularity Hub
A host of startups are trying to breathe new life into a nuclear industry that was long the purview of engineering giants and state-backed industry.
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Wired
A new generation of reactors will start producing power in the next few years. They're comparatively tiny—and may be key to hitting our climate goals.
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Geek Wire
Not far from Interstate 90’s crush of traffic, a decade-old startup founded by Bill Gates is running tests aimed at building the next generation of nuclear reactors.
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Energypost
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ResearchGate
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Independent
Thousands of tonnes of radioactive materials could be used to power everything from pacemakers to spacecraft
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Interesting Engineering
A team of physicists and chemists from the University of Bristol are working towards using nuclear waste from disused power plants to generate diamond battery power.
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Energy News
Using nuclear power to produce hydrogen likely would not be enough to help nuclear plants compete with renewables.
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Innovation Origins
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Popular Mechanics
Molten salt reactors are nuclear's future, but there's still a lot we don't know. A new breakthrough could help engineers crack the next phase of nuclear energy.
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Businesswire
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Science Magazine
California’s Tri Alpha Energy continues progress toward an alternative fusion reactor
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Science Magazine
Germany’s new stellarator was “hell on Earth” to build, but it will be worth it—if it works
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Wired
Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology have decelerated runaway electrons to make nuclear fusion possible
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Forbes
A new nuclear fusion reactor may have solved the problems of previous designs. It uses both electric and magnetic fields, and a beam of ions focused on a solid target, each containing half of the fuel and taking advantage of aneutronic fusion, reducing the problems with high neutron radiation.
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Forbes
Some A-list names—including the Rockefellers, Charles Schwab and Buzz Aldrin—are chasing the sun at fusion-energy firm TAE Technologies.
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Last Week Tonight
America has over 4,800 nuclear weapons, and we don’t take terrific care of them.It’s terrifying, basically.Connect with Last Week Tonight online...Subscribe ...
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Stratfor
Comments that would have been unthinkable a few years ago are being made and are being taken seriously.
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Stratfor
Last week, U.S. President Barack Obama went to Hiroshima to mark the occasion of the use of a nuclear weapon against a civilian population in wartime. He was right to do this. But Obama did not go to Hiroshima merely to make an empathetic gesture. He went to make an argument, reflecting a profound and well-thought-out commitment that has been the basis of much of the foreign policy of his administ
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Energy Job Line
The third annual Global Energy Talent Index (GETI), the world’s largest energy recruitment and employment trends report, is released today, showing that nuclear companies need to be creative and resourceful to survive in a difficult talent environment.
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WNN
The Nuclear Energy Leadership Act, bipartisan draft legislation which aims to accelerate the development of advanced nuclear technologies and re-establish US leadership in nuclear energy has been re-introduced to the US Senate.
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Forbes
Advanced Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) represent the next evolution of clean nuclear power. China, Russia, and the United States are now in a race to perfect this transformative technology.
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National Post
MOSCOW — Russia has formally proposed to the United States that the two nuclear superpowers extend their New START arms control treaty by five years, though…
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Quantumrun Foresight
Russia has committed to deploying floating nuclear power plants to provide energy to remote areas and to cut costs for mining operations.
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Quantumrun Foresight
Nuclear power could still contribute to a carbon-free world with several initiatives underway to make it safer and produce less problematic waste.
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Quantumrun Foresight
Increased private funding in the nuclear fusion industry is speeding up research and development.
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Quantumrun Foresight
Thorium and molten salt reactors could be the next “big thing” in energy, but how safe and green are they?
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International Atomic Energy Agency
