[SeekAndFind]

Last October, the DOE approved a multiyear cost-share award to Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) to develop and construct the Carbon Free Power Project (CFPP), a 720-megawatt small modular nuclear reactor (SMR) located at the Idaho National Laboratory. This crucial award will help ensure that the CFPP is fully operational by 2030 and competitive with other baseload energy sources like combined-cycle natural gas plants, but with zero greenhouse gas emissions. And in December, DOE's Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program (ARDP) awarded two U.S.-based companies - TerraPower and X-energy - with $160 million in initial funding to build first-of-their-kind reactors, expected to be fully operational within seven years. This is progress the Biden administration can build on by continuing to invest in the next generation of nuclear energy.

The ambitious timelines for the DOE's projects mean advanced nuclear energy can play a meaningful role in enabling communities to reach their climate goals, potentially directly replacing fossil plants and partnering with renewable energy and battery technologies. In the long-run, the investment in advanced nuclear technologies will also help provide local, high-paying jobs for the communities where they will operate as well as jobs in the emerging supply chains. And for communities facing coal plant closures - like in Michigan, Ohio, Nevada and North Carolina - advanced nuclear will be the most effective option to provide always-on, carbon-free energy to replace the baseload of fossil fuels, something that wind and solar power are not able to do quite yet.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

LOL. The snowflakes and commies were throwing tantrums against nuclear power during the 1970s and 1980s. Even though engineers said that nuclear power was cleaner and better for the environment.

If it hadn't been for the liberal hissy fits back then, we would be enjoying almost 100% clean, safe nuclear energy right now. Instead jackasses have been closing nuclear power plants in places like New York and Vermont and California and other ultra-liberal states.

[HighSierra5]

The Left even mismanaged or more like sabotaged even the nuclear waste issue by closing the site in Nevada. They shouldn’t even run a popsicle stand.

[Praxeologue]

Nuclear still has a fatal image problem, particularly on the Left. The development of superior thorium (LFTR) technology, however, is in principle a bi-partisan winner, except that it would kill petroleum on the Right and solar/wind on the Left. To the political eye, that makes it a non-starter.

Would Susan Rice and Valerie Jarrett support anything that is good for America?

[wita]

Carbon carbon carbon. Why would anyone dislike carbon? Plant food, an element worth its weight especially to plants.

[MAAG]

Ah, your special. Idiot.

[jonrick46]

No mention of Thorium power.