Posted on 12/03/2023 6:37:51 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
The U.S. and 21 other countries want to triple the global generation capacity of nuclear power by mid-century. The pledge, announced at the United Nations’ COP28 climate summit in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, comes as more of the world’s governments say increased use of nuclear power is critical to reduce emissions of carbon and combat climate change.
Countries involved are the U.S., Canada, the UK, France, South Korea, and the UAE. Officials have said increasing nuclear power in Europe would help European nations reduce dependence on oil and gas from Russia, while conceding it will require major investment. Data from nuclear power analysts has shown that in countries with the most nuclear power capacity, many projects over the past several years have experienced delays and cost overruns.
Unit 3 at [Georgia Power's] Plant Vogtle came online this summer, seven years after it originally was expected to begin service. Unit 3 is the first newly-constructed nuclear unit in the U.S. in more than 30 years. Unit 4 at Vogtle is expected to enter operation in the next few months...two units surpassed $34 billion—more than double original estimates.
Craig Piercy, executive director of the American Nuclear Society said about the “Declaration to Triple Nuclear Energy”: “On behalf of America’s nuclear professionals, we applaud the historic commitment made today by the U.S. and 21 other countries to tripling global nuclear energy production by 2050. This is real, tangible climate action in meeting the world’s clean energy needs. Tripling the world’s nuclear energy supplies by 2050 is the catalyst required to halt rising temperatures and achieve a sustainable future while lifting millions out of poverty.”
The International Atomic Energy Agency reported that global nuclear power generation capacity was about 371 GW at the end of 2022, with 411 reactors in operation.
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Politofiction. It worked.
I quote from your own link:
The West has been reluctant to target Russia’s nuclear exports, however, because they play key roles in keeping reactors humming. Russia supplied the U.S. nuclear industry with about 12% of its uranium last year, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Europe reported getting about 17% of its uranium in 2022 from Russia.
USA is trying to restart, but currently has ZERO uranium processing capacity.
That’s why Russian imports are not sanctioned.
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/More-progress-towards-US-uranium-production-restar
This is what happens when you have Globohomo “Free Trade” @ssholes running your economy.
Sadly yes it did. Like someone once said; “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the stupidity of the American people.”
This could very well be the final suicide. Beside having no 100,000 year safe place to store the waist. Just look at the decline in the world around us. Just think about what can happen to these things when society totally breaks down.
https://world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Idled-US-conversion-plant-preparing-for-restart
“Stop with the propaganda, and the stupid pejoratives.”
Come off it buddy.
Forget dependence on imported uranium fuel.
What “pejoratives” do you suggest for this situation ?
https://dailycaller.com/2023/06/19/raytheon-china-greg-hayes-decoupling/
“...we only idled the plant in Illinois “due to low market demand”. (Moscow was dumping product on the market at below cost maybe?) ...”
Nothing says retarded “Free Trade” f#cking @ssholes like shutting down your nuclear processing because of cheap imports : “...And we can’t violate the sacred principles of free trade...”
Only a failing Empire in an advanced state of degeneracy and decay would do this.
There is a reason Khazakstan has such a large share of the USA market. Here it is.
When all looks kinda rosey never think that these evil pr###s that came up with this are resting
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That’s the ONLY thing to come out of this Gaia worship conference that makes any sense.
“That is an $18 TRILLION investment.”
Can you give a comparative cost? You say Vogtle 3 & 4 cost about 13.6 billion per gigawatt, which is about 13.6 dollars per watt.
Is that high? An engineer told me that for nuclear plant, fuel costs are small compared to interest on the borrowed money to build it, and operation/maintenance/depreciation costs.
A comparison of total lifetime cost per kilowatt hour, nuclear versus natural gas or coal, would be interesting.
I’ve lived long enough to remember when environmentalists hated nuclear power.
We built a facility for nucler waste and the cancelled the project.
More people died in Ted Kennedy’s Oldsmobile than died at 3 Mile Island.
The Lazard chart at the Wiki page of LCOE is deceptive for wind and solar because it does not account for intermittency and does not include the full system needed to make the power “dispatchable,” i.e., you can ramp it up and down to match demand. This has been an egregious BIG LIE about renewables the past 30 years.
You make coal plants dispatchable by keeping a 90 day supply of coal on the ground at the plant to buffer delivery problems (typical in winter) and labor stoppages. There is no practical, reliable, low cost or feasible way to store power generated by wind and solar.
Actually, they hate nuclear waste.
The power plants generate wastes that are harmful for tens of thousands of years.
This was argued to me over and over by a rabid antinuke envirowacko woman
Wow!!!!!! Amen
Three mile Island was an engineering success. Problems were detected and the plant was shut down as per the designers intent
Do a GIS on “small nuclear reactors”. The number of designs are impressive.
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