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The US invented nuclear energy technology. We must safely innovate our approach and optimize the industry. It will continually face oppostion, especially since it is the most expensive electricity on the grid, without federal and state subsidies. That said, we cannot continue to lose ground to other nations around the globe. #nuclearpower #innovation #ira #smr #energyregulation #cleanenergytransition #climatecrisis #renewables

A realistic time frame for building nuclear- by Peter Farley - the earliest conventional nuclear power could be on online in Australia would be 2048-49. #manufacturing #niuclearpower #energy #electricity Peter Farley https://lnkd.in/gCnAs5AB

⚡ What Vogtle’s stumbling finish means for U.S. nuclear energy | Politico Discover more at "voltsbase.com/energy" #Energy #Voltsbase

Do the economics (and safety concerns) of nuclear power make sense? Or should we be investing in other sources of clean energy such as green hydrogen? Construction started in 2009 on Plant Vogtle unit 3 near Augusta. It's now online and can produce enough (relatively clean) power for 500,000 homes! But, it's 7 years late and $17B over budget. Unit 4 is projected to come online soon. Reminder that there are no easy - nor inexpensive solutions to mitigate climate change #NuclearPower #CleanEnergySolutions #GreenHydrogen

My understanding is that UNLV is sitting on patents to recycle uranium to give it 90% of original power. This could create nearly endless cheap power. Average power bill in NV could be literally less than $20/month. I wonder why we aren't using the middle of the desert to make cheap reliable power. By the way, modern nuclear plants lack the ability to explode.

💡Industry News💡 This article discusses how the United States used to build nuclear power plants affordably. To meet climate goals, they'll need to start fresh and learn how to do it again. https://lnkd.in/eY2iNeXs #IndustryNews #NuclearUSA #NuclearPowerPlants

Despite the infamous meltdown, owners of a third of the U.S.’s nuclear plants are reportedly in talks with tech companies to help power data centers. In 1979, a partial meltdown of a reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant along the Susquehanna River in Pennsylvania brought America’s nuclear fears to life. For the past five years, that plant has been dormant, but a movement is underway to turn things back on, as demand for power sources by artificial intelligence companies continues to grow. #energy #nuclearenergy #sustainability #climatechange #tech

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Friendly reminder: nuclear power is expensive, illegal, dangerous and decades away from powering our homes and businesses. Instead of debating this dangerous distraction, let's just keep doing what works: electrifying the nation with clean energy.

The True Cost of Nuclear Bureaucracy Publicly traded NuScale Power (SMR) suffered a terrible setback last November when it had to cancel a carbon-free power project with the Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems. The project had been under development for a decade with the support of the U.S. Department of Energy. And it still failed. The problem was that the costs of getting the nuclear power plant operational skyrocketed from $5.3 billion to $9.3 billion. Put simply, the business model wouldn’t work. There weren’t enough utility customers to justify the financing of such an incredible sum. So the deal fell through. Instead of carbon-free energy, the area will have to fall back on increasing demand for fossil fuels. Not surprisingly, NuScale’s stock price was destroyed. It fell from around $15 a share last September, when the project was expected to move forward… to just $2 a share by November when the project was canceled. But that wasn’t the end of the story, as we can see above. Remember, the Advanced Nuclear Development Act was introduced in November. Political and regulatory support for small modular reactors has been picking up since then. The most recent development is an announcement from the Department of Energy (DOE) last week. It will fund up to $900 million in initial deployments of SMR technology in the U.S. The DOE announced that it will begin taking funding solicitations in late summer/early fall this year. It’s not a coincidence that Bill Gates-backed TerraPower has now entered the scene.