[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.

[rlmorel]

We should be going full bore into this, but with these people occupying the White House and Congress, it won't happen.

The authors of the article are delusional when they say "...This is progress the Biden administration can build on by continuing to invest in the next generation of nuclear energy..."

As if that were even a possibility.

[ckilmer]

DOE is investing way too much money in light water smr’s. Those things will be obsolete and impossible to sell —whenever they are ready for the public.

The way to is the 4th generation SMR’s that employ some variation of the lftr technology.

[TigersEye]

I am all for nuclear energy but there is no climate crisis.

Unless we get hit by a comet or a large asteroid and then we’ll have one spectacular climate crisis. With no money left to help survive it.

[View from the Cheap Seats]

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.