Reaching Illinois climate goals centers on keeping existing nuclear energy plants open, advancing both renewables and next generation of nuclear technology
New report highlights need for investment in current and new nuclear technology alongside renewables to achieve decarbonized energy system in Illinois
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CHAMPAIGN, Ill., May 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Illinois nuclear plants are critical to meeting climate and economic objectives in the state, including the ambitious goal some have proposed of a 100% carbon-free power sector by 2030. But according to new research out of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign s Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering (NPRE) department, to meet this aggressive climate target and others, Illinois won t just have to maintain its existing nuclear energy capacity – the state must also expand it.
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University of Illinois Extension Community and Economic Development will air a live webinar on Freedom of Information Act on Thursday, May 20, 2021, from Noon – 1:00 p.m. Christopher Boggs, Assistant Attorney General from the Illinois Attorney General’s Office, will updated information and tools required to implement this policy at the local level and avoid violations.
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feed to stay on top of the news. Just knowing that there s plutonium there is amazing, Brian Fields, an astronomer at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, told National Public Radio. Now we only have tiny amounts of material after all, we re talking about hundreds of atoms here. But we should be grateful for that, because they are freshly made from exploding stars.
The findings have opened “a whole new field for exploring more directly the astrophysical sites of the r-process,” physicist John Ellis of the European Organization for Nuclear Research told Science Magazine.
After the Big Bang, which scientists consider the origin of life-sustaining elements like hydrogen, it was the r-process, or the rapid neutron- capture process, that created about half of the atomic nuclei heavier than iron known to humans.