Jim Conca

JANUARY 16, 2018

Like all nuclear power plants, the nuclear plant near Richland, WA provides a significant economic boon to the region, providing over 9 billion kWhs of carbon-free electricity at-cost, $690 million in economic output and supporting 4,000 jobs/year, all while continuing to break production records.

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POWER Magazine

JANUARY 2, 2024

Solar, wind, and nuclear power, as well as battery storage systems, are the obvious winners as the world aims to decarbonize energy systems.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 8, 2021

Small modular reactors (SMRs) — nuclear reactors using novel technologies to fit into much smaller and mass-producible packages than the behemoth nuclear power plants of today — are presented as a way of rapidly decarbonizing the grid in the face of an ever more pressing need to meet climate targets.

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R-Squared Energy

JUNE 15, 2023

Certainly, these renewable sources will continue to grow in importance, but in the short-term, we can’t expect coal-fired power plants to be replaced with intermittent renewables. However, nuclear power is a viable option for meeting this need. The biggest challenge is the cost and time to build new nuclear power plants.

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Ever wondered how long it takes to build a nuclear power plant? Summary - The conventional one gigawatt nuclear power plant takes almost 15 years to build if you are not from a major nuclear state*. The nuclear elephant in the room Or should we say, nuclear tortoise There are two types of people in this world.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 23, 2020

That means global carbon dioxide emissions continue to climb. Last week someone asked me “Are you pro- or anti-nuclear?” My thinking is more along the lines of “Can we meet global carbon dioxide emission targets without nuclear power?” is by far the world’s largest consumer of nuclear power.

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Jim Conca

MARCH 21, 2019

Congressional members rolled out their "Green New Deal" in February that calls for a rapid shift to carbon-free energy. But the roll-out hiccupped a bit on the role of nuclear energy, at first dissing it, then saying “clean was OK”. Which is good since without nuclear it won’t work.

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Ever wondered how long it takes to build a nuclear power plant? Summary - The conventional one gigawatt nuclear power plant takes almost 15 years to build if you are not from a major nuclear state*. The nuclear elephant in the room Or should we say, nuclear tortoise There are two types of people in this world.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Nuclear power is up to three times more expensive than wind or solar Summary - Costs of renewables continue to fall incrementally and are at a record low of around €40 per MWh. Nuclear power plants, especially in the West, are confronted with high construction costs, extreme delays and more stringent safety measures.

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Jim Conca

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

The international shipping industry wants to reduce their rather large carbon footprint and are considering installing nuclear power in their increasingly large ships. And they only have to adopt the Nuclear Navy’s protocols to be safe and easy. It would save billions of barrels of oil per year.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The world needs to expand global nuclear power generation to help curb global carbon emissions. We simply can’t have major nuclear incidents such as those that took place at Chernobyl, Ukraine and Fukushima, Japan. In the history of nuclear power, there have been few serious incidents.

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Financial Times: Energy

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Low-carbon energy is key to avoiding shortages and hitting climate targets but projects are fraught with delays and budget overruns

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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. China — 16.7%.

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Jim Conca

MAY 7, 2019

NextEra Energy will close Iowa’s only nuclear plant in 2020. Officials say closing the nuclear plant will save as much as $42/year in savings for residential customers. Save $42 to lose 5 billion kWhs of carbon-free electricity by building gas plants, or to spend $2 billion on new wind farms?

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 4, 2021

President Bush touted the potential for a “hydrogen economy” that would greatly slow the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. However, whether hydrogen truly has a low carbon footprint hinges on how the hydrogen is produced. However, it is possible to capture the carbon dioxide produced in this process.

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Energy Central

JUNE 24, 2022

NASA Plans to Deploy Nuclear Power on Lunar Surface Tractebel Leads EU Project on Nuclear Space Power Technologies Repowering Coal Plants with SMRs is the Largest Carbon Abatement Opportunity on The Planet’ – TerraPraxis Nuclear Start-Up Raised €300M; Wants to Turn UK Waste Plutonium Into Clean Energy Orano and TerraPower Awarded GAIN (..)

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Hitachi has officially scrapped plans to build new nuclear power plants at Wylfa on Anglesey and Oldbury in Gloucestershire amid ongoing struggles to drum-up additional financing for the high profile projects, it confirmed today, dealing another major blow to the nuclear industry's ambitions in the UK.

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TechXplore

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In an impressive combination of nuclear technology and machine learning (ML), a team of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory has unveiled a significant finding in maintaining safety and efficiency in a type of next-generation nuclear reactor, known as a sodium-cooled fast reactor (SFR).

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Jim Conca

APRIL 18, 2018

Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Arizona, our biggest power plant, is under another political attack that could cause Arizona to lose not only its biggest source of electricity of any type, but its biggest source of low-carbon energy, ten times what all of its renewables are producing.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 15, 2019

Previous articles in this series covered carbon dioxide emissions, petroleum supply and demand, the production and consumption of coal, global natural gas trends, and the continued explosion in the growth of renewable energy: BP Warns Of An Unsustainable Path. Renewables Catching Nuclear Power In Global Energy Race.

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Business Green

MARCH 10, 2023

Ministers are gearing up to launch a consultation on changes to the government's taxonomy rules - which classify what constitutes a 'green' investment - in order to redefine nuclear power projects as environmentally sustainable, The Financial Times reported this morning.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Sizewell C project takes major step forward as government unveils plans to establish Great British Energy, a new arms-length public body to oversee UK nuclear power pipeline. New nuclear will protect Britain from volatile global gas markets and help keep bills under control for the country's homes and businesses.".

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Over the past three years, some of the country’s biggest utilities have been committing to a goal that few may have predicted they’d undertake on their own: weaning themselves off carbon-emitting generation by 2050. Utilities in many states now face mandates to move to 100 percent renewable energy or cut carbon to zero by 2050.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2020

Rolls-Royce is aiming to have mini nuclear power stations up and running across the UK from 2029, claiming its smaller reactors can produce energy at a cost comparable to renewables projects. The engineering giant is leading a consortium bid to build Small Modular Reactors (SMR) at old nuclear sites in Cumbria and Wales.

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Business Green

JANUARY 7, 2022

Closure of EDF's Ayrshire plant, which has operated on west coast of Scotland since 1976, leaves UK with just seven operational nuclear stations. The 1.2GW capacity power station first began operating in 1976, and although it was originally expected to operate for 25 years, EDF was able to extend the plant's lifespan a number of times.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2024

gigawatts of nuclear power lost between now and 2028, and Hinkley Point C won’t be online until after 2030 at the earliest. gigawatts, which will leave us with less nuclear power in 2030 than we had in 2023. Hartlepool nuclear power station is among those scheduled for closure (image credit: user:geni , CC BY-SA 4.0

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Jim Conca

JULY 9, 2019

Debate continues to rage in the Ohio Legislature over legislation that would help nuclear plants continue to produce low-carbon electricity, while also supporting renewables. But failure to enact Bill 6 would also lead to more deaths as coal and gas would be replacing the nuclear power.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Instead, LucidCatalyst argues governments should consider investing in hydrogen produced by a new generation of advanced modular reactors that are "very different from current large nuclear power plants" and manufactured with new, modular shipyard manufacturing process.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Yet, global carbon dioxide emissions rose by more than 4 billion metric tons per year during that time, reaching an all-time high in 2019. Renewables are growing at a much faster rate, but it will take decades at the current growth rates before renewables can make a serious dent in global carbon dioxide emissions. In the U.S. —

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The Sizewell B nuclear power plant on the Suffolk coast: The facility will provide electricity for the desalination plant at Sizewell C (image credit: Debra O’Connor / Shutterstock.com). Sizewell C is proposing a series of other measures to reduce carbon emissions during and after construction of the power station.

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Jim Conca

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The Columbia Generating Station nuclear power plant recently achieved its eighth monthly electricity generation record in just 12-months. CGS produced 850 million kWhs of zero-carbon electricity in August, and 830 million kWhs in September, both records, while producing less than 2 tons of waste.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

Peter Michaelis, head of Liontrust's Sustainable Investment Team, considers whether new nuclear power is a worthwhile investment in the race to net zero. Nuclear fission generates heat from the splitting of Uranium 235 nuclei. Studies across the lifecycle show that nuclear is a factor of 10 less CO2-intensive than gas and coal.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Nuclear has been identified by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe as the lowest carbon electricity source, as well as the low carbon technology that has the lowest impacts on land use and mining and metal use, delivering a fractionally lower carbon footprint than renewables.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Last month the Akademik Lomonosov, a first-of-its-kind floating nuclear plant built by Russian state nuclear energy corporation, Rosatom, arrived at Pevek, a port town on the remote Chukotka Peninsula in the Russian Arctic. There, the plant is expected to provide power to about 100,000 homes.

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POWER Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

India has begun commercial operation of its first domestically designed 700-MWe pressurized heavy water reactor (PHWR) at the Kakrapar nuclear power plant in Gujarat, state-owned Nuclear Power Corp.

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POWER Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2023

A variety of industries are looking at nuclear power as a way to reduce their carbon footprint and provide a reliable source of electricity. Technology companies, along with industries such […] The post The POWER Interview: Nuclear Set to Energize, Decarbonize Industry appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 11, 2019

Previous articles in this series covered carbon dioxide emissions, petroleum supply and demand, the production and consumption of coal, and global natural gas trends: BP Warns Of An Unsustainable Path. But, renewables have grown rapidly over the past decade, and are on the cusp of overtaking nuclear globally.

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