Posted on 10/08/2021 6:35:27 AM PDT by blam
According to the 2021 World Nuclear Industry Status Report, global nuclear power generation dropped 3.9 percent in 2020 despite a 4.4 percent climb in China, where two new reactors were added. In 2021, 415 reactors were operational around the world – 22 fewer than in 2011. Another 26 are currently in long-term storage and 53 are under construction – around half in China and India.
The rapid expansion of renewables and negative public sentiment towards nuclear energy created by disasters such as those in Chernobyl or Fukushima have been turning nuclear power into an also-ran of global energy generation. Nuclear power has been experiencing a slow decline from a 17.5 percent peak share of global electricity generation in 1996 to a share of only 10.1 percent in 2020, as more countries put on hold or abandon their nuclear power strategies than are expanding them.
However, as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz notes, according to the report, 33 countries currently run nuclear power reactors, but only 14 are listed as still actively pursuing the technology – including 2020 nuclear energy newcomers Belarus and the United Arab Emirates.
Infographic: The Countries With the Most Nuclear Reactors | Statista
The world’s fastest growing nuclear energy program is also one of the youngest: China has used nuclear energy since the early 1990s and currently runs 52 nuclear reactors, 39 of which joined the grid in just the past ten years.
The United States meanwhile remain the globe’s biggest nuclear energy stronghold, with 93 operational reactor units as of July 2021, down 11 since 2011. Despite the decline, the U.S. program is listed as active, as is the Japanese one, which saw a massive loss of 39 units since 2011. At currently nine active nuclear reactors, it is expected that Japan will soon officially abandon new nuclear energy construction.
Only three countries that had nuclear energy programs have so far shut off all reactors – Italy in 1987, Kazakhstan in 1998 and Lithuania in 2009.
France is doing the most innovative work.
Most up to date and a very advanced fuel reprocessing organization.
Lots of U235 remains in spent fuel rods.
Bkmk
Is anyone working on a thorium reactor?
Bill Gates, Warren Buffett Building Nuclear Reactor In Coal-Rich Wyoming
This reactor is reputed to run off spent nuclear rods...or some such.
Thorcon
>>Is anyone working on a thorium reactor?
China is building one in the Gobi Desert.
Kazakhstan in 1998 and Lithuania in 2009
Old soviet block countries that had soviet RBMK Reactors that were being phased out
Is anyone working on a thorium reactor?
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I believe I saw where China just brought one online.
Rocket Man did not make the list? (I refer to North Korea, for those who might ask.)
Hopefully some of our new Hattian immigrants will have degrees in advanced nuclear engineering and will be advocates for the newer designs as the French seem to have really excelled in this area.
You can get ANYTHING on Amazon.”
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Amazon has lots of cheap stuff from China so in the near future they may have some for sale, since that type of reactor is relatively safe
Chernobyl was the foreseeable consequence of the Soviet’s philosophy of “Better is the enemy of good enough.” And Fukushima was only possible because of 20 years of what in any modern western industrial nation would have been termed “criminal neglect.”
And the chart is wrong.
The US Navy alone operates +/- 200 nuclear reactors. All of them are on floating platforms. Some of them sink (and come back up) on command. And from hundreds to thousands of people live on these floating platforms, less than a quarter of a mile from the reactor itself.
The US Navy has been operating nuclear reactors for 66 years. In that time they have had exactly one minor mishap involving a nuclear propulsion reactor that provoked some precautionary drills but produced zero radiation injuries. That was in 1973 and we’re several generations of reactor more advanced and safer now.
Through 65 of those 66 years (to the end of CY 2020), 47,144 Americans were killed in coal mining accidents.* That’s 47,144 more Americans than were killed (or even seriously injured) by all incidents involving US-operated reactors combined.
*According to the US Department of Labor
https://arlweb.msha.gov/stats/centurystats/coalstats.asp
Any solution that can actually solve problems, the LEFT is always AGAINST.
Don’t forget all those Afghan and central american nuclear scientists. Where would we be without all of them?
https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/nuclear-power-most-reliable-energy-source-and-its-not-even-close
Project Impossible looks at the great movable arch used to contain Chernobyl
Largest Movable Building In The World, Chernobyl Arch On Project Impossible
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