Posted on Jun 30, 2022
Nuclear power is gaining support after years of decline. But old hurdles remain
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At the Nuclear Energy Assembly in Washington, D.C., this June, speaker Maria Korsnick urged the audience of hundreds to picture a world in which nuclear energy is triumphant.
"In this clean energy future, hundreds of reactors — from the existing models that we have today to advanced reactors both large and small — dot the landscape," said Korsnick, who's president and CEO of the Nuclear Energy Institute, a trade association.
Such a future would have been harder to even imagine a few years ago.
Over the past decade, nuclear power plants across the country have been shutting down early in favor of cheaper natural gas power.
Now, an influx of investment from the government and the private sector is changing the trajectory of the aging U.S. nuclear fleet and spurring development of new nuclear technology.
But many of the same old hurdles to scaling up nuclear power remain.
At the Nuclear Energy Assembly in Washington, D.C., this June, speaker Maria Korsnick urged the audience of hundreds to picture a world in which nuclear energy is triumphant.
"In this clean energy future, hundreds of reactors — from the existing models that we have today to advanced reactors both large and small — dot the landscape," said Korsnick, who's president and CEO of the Nuclear Energy Institute, a trade association.
Such a future would have been harder to even imagine a few years ago.
Over the past decade, nuclear power plants across the country have been shutting down early in favor of cheaper natural gas power.
Now, an influx of investment from the government and the private sector is changing the trajectory of the aging U.S. nuclear fleet and spurring development of new nuclear technology.
But many of the same old hurdles to scaling up nuclear power remain.
Nuclear power is gaining support after years of decline. But old hurdles remain
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California is considering decommissioning the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in 2025. If that happens with the state going all green, that state will have rolling blackouts like they do in Baghdad. We are now finding out from last year how cutting back on fossil fuel or nuclear energy can cause nine kinds of Hell during Peak summer electricity usage in both Europe and California especially if the wind stops blowing. Fossil fuels are not going away by 2,035. Also, if everybody is hooked up to the grid to charge their electric cars, what's going to happen when the system comes crashing down? I really like the Ford Fusion Hybrid car. It's too bad they got rid of it because I didn't sell well. That car could get 40 to 50 miles per gallon doing 80 mph because it would use the electric motors when posting
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Where the pilot beats up the annoying religious recruiters.
The big hurdle remains is opening the Harry Reid nuclear depository in nevada. 10 billion and not completed. Even president Trump ignored it. I call it the Harrier Reid nuclear depository because he was the one who wanted it canceled
It's funny that Elon Musk told the Europeans to turn on their nuclear power plants and now they are turning on their coal plants and maybe some nuclear plants..
I like in the old 1980 movie airplane that Robert Stack beat up the very last guy who said 'for nuclear power'
I know president some of the Democrats are having a fit because his executive orders are being thrown out by the Supreme Court but we are still doing oil production much cleaner than Venezuela and Iran and that's the countries that he wants to buy oil from.
It is all self-inflicted. We are down 1 million barrels per day and he's added a crap load of regulations which makes it that much harder to do production. Just because you have the leases doesn't mean you have the permits to drill and doesn't mean that local authorities can't stop it and doesn't mean you can't even get pipelines approved so just because the leases are sold doesn't mean anything.
We have our own means to solve our production problems but this Administration is too greeny and wants other countries with no pollution controls to get the benefit of our oil income.
https://youtu.be/f4CizzE-zZo
It's funny that Elon Musk told the Europeans to turn on their nuclear power plants and now they are turning on their coal plants and maybe some nuclear plants..
I like in the old 1980 movie airplane that Robert Stack beat up the very last guy who said 'for nuclear power'
I know president some of the Democrats are having a fit because his executive orders are being thrown out by the Supreme Court but we are still doing oil production much cleaner than Venezuela and Iran and that's the countries that he wants to buy oil from.
It is all self-inflicted. We are down 1 million barrels per day and he's added a crap load of regulations which makes it that much harder to do production. Just because you have the leases doesn't mean you have the permits to drill and doesn't mean that local authorities can't stop it and doesn't mean you can't even get pipelines approved so just because the leases are sold doesn't mean anything.
We have our own means to solve our production problems but this Administration is too greeny and wants other countries with no pollution controls to get the benefit of our oil income.
https://youtu.be/f4CizzE-zZo
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