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The challenges the nuclear industry faces are largely external and must be overcome if it is to help tackle the existential threat of climate change, panellists in the
Nuclear Energy and its Future session of the
Reuters Next conference on 11 January said. These challenges include: the notion nuclear is an out-dated technology; the cost of finance; market design; political changes; perceived competition with renewable energy; and the public s misconceptions about radioactive waste.
(Image: Reuters Next) Whether you look at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and their famous 1.5 degree report, or you look at the International Energy Agency and their scenarios, if you want to have a prayer to get anywhere close to the Paris climate targets of constraining the temperature rise to 2 degrees Centigrade over pre-industrial levels, then you need probably to at least double the contribution of nuclear, said Dan Poneman, president and CEO of Cen
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President Trump’s energy secretary, Dan Brouillette, says he supports the incoming Biden administration’s plans to accelerate investments in clean energy and electric vehicles to combat climate change.
While Trump is known for promoting fossil fuel development and questioning climate change science, Brouillette, his understated energy secretary, has been quietly working to develop technologies that he believes will be crucial to realizing a lower-carbon energy economy.
Now, as he prepares to hand off the reins of the Energy Department, Brouillette argues his agency has “positioned” the United States on a course to be able to meet President-elect Joe Biden’s accelerated goal of eliminating greenhouse gases from the economy by 2050.
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There are a hundred reasons why nuclear energy can play a massive role in the future of American power and prosperity.
It creates high-paying jobs better than any other energy source. Its fuel sources are abundant. It fuels NASA’s most innovative projects. It offers a solution to conservation concerns without devastating the economy. And despite its sensationalist image, it is far safer than fossil fuels, and about the same in safety as solar and wind.
“Nuclear provides 55% of our country’s clean energy, and about 20% of our power, and it’s one of the most reliable generators that we have on the grid today,” says Dr. Rita Baranwal, who this month completed her tenure as assistant secretary for the Office of Nuclear Energy in the Trump administration. “Our reactors in the U.S. avoid putting out 470 million metric tons of carbon emissions each year. That number is equivalent to removing 100 million cars off the road.”
The challenges the nuclear industry faces are largely external and must be overcome if it is to help tackle the existential threat of climate change, panellists in the Nuclear Energy and its Future session of the Reuters Next conference on 11 January said. These challenges include: the notion nuclear is an out-dated technology; the cost of finance; market design; political changes; perceived competition with renewable energy; and the public's misconceptions about radioactive waste.