Nuclear Is Back
President Biden signed the ADVANCE Act, promoting new nuclear technologies and reducing licensing fees. Despite bipartisan support, some Democratic officials express hesitancy towards nuclear energy, posing challenges for expansion. The Act aims to advance nuclear power development, emphasizing its importance for energy transition.
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President Biden recently signed the ADVANCE Act, America's first comprehensive nuclear energy bill since 2005, aiming to incentivize new nuclear technologies and reduce licensing fees. The Act received bipartisan support in Congress. The Biden administration advocates for nuclear power as a reliable, safe, and carbon-free energy source, essential for achieving climate goals. Despite the administration's pro-nuclear stance, some Democratic officials at the state and local levels remain hesitant about nuclear energy, leading to obstacles in expanding nuclear capacity. The administration emphasizes that nuclear power is crucial for a successful energy transition, as it can provide affordable and reliable energy, unlike wind and solar power. To overcome challenges and increase nuclear power plants, leadership at all levels is essential. The ADVANCE Act sets the stage for further nuclear development, but state and local decisions will play a significant role in shaping the future of nuclear energy in the United States.
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5 comments> Wind and solar power enjoy excellent PR, no doubt, but they’ve failed to show they can reliably decarbonize grids.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-elec-by-source both oil and coal are down as a percentage of total electricity generation.
It's hard to find articles with accurate content when it comes to nuclear and renewable energy. Each side seems to have the need to make up lies about the other side.
Australia has one research swimming pool reactor, no power reactors, and nuclear power is banned in statute at state and federal level. To believe the cost of deployment here in time or money sense is low because "nuclear is back" in America is wishful thinking. But I fully expect to see the arguments rehearsed.
At best this will push out cost of construction down to its lower side estimates. It won't alter the inevitable planning, approval, legislative and protest bound delays which continue to dog deployment of nuclear power, across a time of continued improvement in levelled cost of energy for wind, battery and solar as well as the build out of pumped hydro.
By the time nuclear could be deployed here, the amount of baseload it could price into will be far smaller and the demand based case will be even smaller than at present.
You and I are stuffed in this scenario. There are no good ways of kicking off nuclear power in countries that don’t need it for weapon production. The theoretical small power plants are nothing but boondoggle fantasies designed to drain the public purse with the aim of slowing the renewable juggernaut.
We were all warned 25 years ago what the climate change denialist playbook looked like. First claim climate change isn’t real. Next claim it might be real but it isn’t bad. Next claim ok it might be a problem but we can sequester carbon. Next say ok that’s a fantasy but let’s use gas as a transition. Then admit gas won’t last so the only possible answer is nuclear.
Problem is, most countries have already proved we don’t need nuclear power. At. All. Yet still the well funded lobbying of fossil fuel industries promote this fantasy.
There seems to be little that can be done to fight the onslaught of bullshit that these evil (yep, evil) bastards use to corrupt discourse worldwide. Other than doing something that will send you to jail. It might be time to do just that.
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