The first nuclear reactor built from scratch in the U.S. in more than three decades enters service
The world will not be able to transition to renewables without nuclear power. I believe Bill Gates’ flagship plant got the go ahead out west somewhere.
Something has to smooth it all out beyond batteries and smart management systems. Both of which will help a lot, especially with hydrogen metal cells becoming cheaper and more suited for industrial use but there’s no reasonable amount of batteries that could handle it all.
LFG!
When will the next few come online? The world needs nuclear energy yesterday to save the atmosphere.
Reading this, I just realized how odd it is that you never hear complaints about nuclear energy from the coal fields… the only threat they seem to recognize is the slow creep of wind and solar.
Because nuclear is not a threat. This is the first reactor in 30 years. At this rate, we’ll have a fully nuclear grid in 87,000 years, assuming US electricity consumption doesn’t increase in that time.
Yeah, I suppose the proliferation of any sort of nuclear plants arent seen as a threat to them yet. If the natrium plants take off, which seems to be the biggest push, maybe they will start complaining about them in the next decade or two.
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