Net zero emissions likely to entail nuclear role
Growing support for new federal and state initiatives to support nuclear power as part of transition to decarbonization.
Edited by Margo Ellis
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Nuclear power advocates are increasingly emphasizing the value of existing but financially struggling U.S. nuclear plants in curbing carbon emissions and addressing climate change as reported by Industry Dive.
Questions about nuclear power’s costs and safety that kept it at 18% to 20.6% of U.S. electricity generation from 1990 to 2020 left little support for new plants. But extreme weather-driven disasters and predictions of much worse in the recent reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are driving new thinking about existing plants.
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