Posted on 02/15/2021 8:58:27 PM PST by SeekAndFind
As the United States faces several key challenges simultaneously - COVID-19, the economic crisis, social injustice and the rising threat of climate change - the federal government is looking for solutions that help address multiple issues at once. Recent commitments by President Biden are encouraging: by tying the post-pandemic economic recovery to investments in clean energy, we can tackle all four existential crises at the same time.
During his campaign, Biden ran on a sweeping clean energy plan, pledging to achieve a carbon-free electricity sector by 2035 with net zero emissions economy-wide by 2050 as part of his "all of government" plan for climate. The president's proposed tech-neutral approach opens the door for an inclusive plan to combat climate change, which includes nuclear power - the nation's largest carbon-free source of energy. This marks the first time nuclear power has been part of the Democratic platform since 1972.
Additionally, we have seen increasing bipartisan congressional support for nuclear energy over the last decade. The new administration can build on this strong foundation by accelerating its investment in advanced nuclear energy to create new opportunities in clean power sector and take meaningful steps towards cost-effective decarbonization. The nuclear industry can be ready to accomplish this with advanced technologies and a commitment to align with the equity-centered approach of the new administration.
The Department of Energy (DOE) leaves the new administration well-positioned to deliver on Biden administration's appropriately ambitious decarbonization goals by continuing to invest in the bright future of nuclear energy. DOE recently launched the National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) to support demonstrations of advanced reactors and pioneer best practices for community engagement with new nuclear technology. That's because DOE has already recognized the promise of advanced reactors, acknowledging they can help lower carbon emissions and create new clean energy jobs.
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Ah, your special. Idiot.
They only support Nuclear Power for Iran.
How many years will this shovel ready job take to put a new power plants online from the ground up? Design, clearances, construction, etc.
It IS a regulatory problem.
Texas has just received an emergency order to suspend pollution restrictions on the non-green energy plants (just as California got last year).
No mention of Thorium power.
We should be pursuing nuclear as well
I can see you are of a like mind.
We should be the world leader in this. It would be good for industry, trade, the economy, and the whole world.
The USA should have the patents, designs, and vigorously market them.
We should do with modular Thorium Reactors and Pebble Bed reactors what our aviation industry did with jet airliners since the late Fifties.
Any discussion of energy must begin with the assumption that the real goal is to cripple the US economy so the New World order can be installed.
CHINA PLANS TO BUILD OVER 900 COAL-FIRED POWER PLANTS IN THE NEXT TEN YEARS!
INDIA PLANS TO BUIlDING OVER 800 COAL-FIREKD POWER PLANTS IN THE NEXT 19 YEARS!
The WHOLE WORLD plans on building thousanda and thousands of coal-fired power [lants.
America with power and automated manufacturing would be unbeatable. THAT’S THE REAL ISSUE HERE,
And that’s why they don’t want us TO use nuclear either— Becausue it would work. Any discussion aboutneeds to be put into context. AMERICA FIRST! SCREW THE GLOBALISTS.
“modular Thorium reactors. It is crazy that we are not doing so”
Better read the Wikipedia article on Liquid Fueled Thorium Reactors.
Not just plants but almost all life, humans included, are built from carbon recently extracted from the trace CO2 in the air. Humans are 18% atmospheric carbon, although plants do the carbon capture for us.
Carbon dating works because free CO2 in the atmosphere is hit by cosmic rays turning some of it into radioactive carbon-14. The ratio of decaying radioactive carbon in something tells roughly how recently it was alive.
Quite the article. Did I miss any show stoppers?
“Quite the article. Did I miss any show stoppers?”
Only show slower-downers. The various reactor designs are competing with each other.
Investments in nuclear energy could help solve the economic and climate crises:
A return to logic and reason, might do even more and far far cheaper.
Oh, wait, what climate crises? Economic is another story all together.
true, although something to eat that is carbonaceous could be considered a cancer cause or decidedly inedible.
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