R-Squared Energy
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
Any time I write about nuclear power, it evokes passionate responses from readers. That was certainly the case following my previous article, Nuclear Power Could Cut The World’s Carbon Emissions In Half. There is always a contingent who are convinced that all we need is solar power. Where is nuclear power growing?
Renewable Energy World
JULY 29, 2021
peaked at 2,016 billion kWh in 2007, and much of that capacity has since been replaced by or converted to natural gas-fired generation. until 2016, and 2020 was the first year that more electricity was generated by renewables and nuclear power than by coal (according to EIA’s data series that dates back to 1949).
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GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
While small modular reactors have powered naval ships for decades and are also in use in other military applications, they’ve yet to be approved for use in commercial power generation. NuScale still has multiple steps ahead of it before it can build its first commercial reactor.
R-Squared Energy
JULY 27, 2020
Regulations eventually reined in that problem, but coal-fired power plants still emit pollutants like mercury. They even emit more radioactive elements than a nuclear power plant. But, because of the various pollution issues associated with coal, most developed countries have moved away from coal-fired power.
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
The 35-page plan offers far more detail than Southern Company has previously disclosed on how it intends to decarbonize a 44 GW generation portfolio that’s now about 52 percent natural gas, 13 percent coal, 17 percent nuclear and 18 percent “renewable and other." Department of Energy.
GreenTechMedia
MAY 27, 2020
Southern Company, which owns a number of utilities across the Deep South, said it now expects to hit a 50 percent reduction in carbon emissions compared to 2007 levels “well ahead” of its previous 2030 target, and possibly as early as 2025. its Southern Power competitive power arm which owns about 12.8
Grist
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
In 2007, the Environmental Protection Agency deemed it ready for reuse, albeit with limits due to contamination that persists at the site. Indeed, part of the land that the Micmac obtained in 2009 was previously used as a firefighting testing area. Loring has undergone years of cleanup since the base closed.
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