27 May 2021
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Failure to include a role for nuclear heat in mainstream scenarios proposed to achieve net-zero by 2050 is an opportunity lost, participants in a World Nuclear Association-hosted webinar,
The role of nuclear beyond electricity, said yesterday.
Webinar participants (clockwise from top left) Ingersoll, Bilbao y León, Gorman and Sawyer
Nuclear is the only zero-carbon energy source that can produce both electricity and heat and this opens very exciting opportunities to decarbonise hard-to-abate sectors such as industry, heavy transport, and many other sectors beyond electricity, World Nuclear Association Director General Sama Bilbao y León said in her introduction to the webinar.
01 April 2021
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Small modular reactors (SMRs) are well-equipped to drive cost-efficient decarbonisation of Canada s heavy industries, research conducted by EnviroEconomics and Navius Research on behalf of the Canadian Nuclear Association (CNA) has concluded. The research studied the economic and climate implications of employing SMRs in Canada s high-emitting industrial sectors.
(Image: CNA)
The model used by EnviroEconomics and Navius Research, which has been leveraged by several organisations, including the Canadian Institute for Climate Choices and the International Council on Clean Transportation, explored a variety of cost and technical assumptions for deploying SMRs, which are currently in the research and development phase. Ten SMR deployment scenarios were modelled. Across all scenarios, SMRs delivered low-cost emission reductions, driving down the cost of getting to net zero as a nation.