Global Nuclear Power Generation To Hit An All-Time High In 2025

Oil Price ^ | 01/24/2024 | Tsvetana Paraskova

[SeekAndFind]

The comeback of nuclear power in many countries is expected to drive a record-high electricity generation from nuclear in 2025, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said on Wednesday.

By next year, global nuclear generation is forecast to exceed its previous record set in 2021, the IEA said in its Electricity 2024 report published today.

Even as some countries phase out nuclear power or retire plants early, global nuclear generation is expected to rise by nearly 3% per year on average through 2026. The key drivers of growth will be the completion of maintenance works in France, restart of some nuclear power plants in Japan, and new reactors coming online in China, India, South Korea, and Europe, among others, according to the IEA.

After the energy crisis of 2022, many governments – with the notable exception of Germany – have opted to boost its nuclear power generation to ensure energy security and reduce emissions from electricity generation as they aim to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

The UK, France, Sweden, and Switzerland are some of the European countries that are betting on domestic nuclear power generation and extension of power plant lifetimes as a way to boost energy security and reduce carbon emissions.

“The power sector currently produces more CO2 emissions than any other in the world economy, so it’s encouraging that the rapid growth of renewables and a steady expansion of nuclear power are together on course to match all the increase in global electricity demand over the next three years,” IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said in a statement.

[Telepathic Intruder]

The Demonrat dream of a literal dark age is still alive and well in the most developed country on earth.

[jerod]

Where is it happening? Western countries stopped building nuclear years ago.

[Mark17]

You are correct sir, unfortunately.

[buwaya]

Olkiluoto Finland

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/after-18-years-europes-largest-nuclear-reactor-start-regular-output-sunday-2023-04-15/

Currently under construction in Europe
Flamanville 3 France
Mochovce 4 Slovakia
Hinkley Point C1&C2 UK

Vogtle #3 Georgia (USA)

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=57280

Vogtle #4 is under construction

[rottndog]

And...contrary to wind and solar, almost all of the nuclear power capacity coming on line will actually put electricity on the grid.

[rottndog]

Vogtle #4 is fully fueled and will be on the grid within a couple of months.

[Reeses]

After the energy crisis of 2022, many governments – with the notable exception of Germany – have opted to boost its nuclear power generation to ensure energy security and reduce emissions from electricity generation as they aim to reach net-zero emissions by 2050.

It would take a 300-page book to go over everything wrong in that one sentence. The most disturbing idea is that government should fund or operate any nuclear power plant. The most energy-inefficient, most secretive, most violent, most lying, most political sector of the economy should not be anywhere near a nuclear power plant. Frighteningly, the biggest investor in nuclear these days is socialist government. There is no way that can end well.

[buwaya]

Cool!

[buwaya]

Bienvenue en France!
I am just a bit to the south of it actually. We cross the border every once in a while. Biarritz is very nice.
Everything has been going great with most French electric generation as a government enterprise since the 1950s I think. Or probably earlier. And the bulk of that is nuke, and has been since the days of M. Pompidou.

Would that the US had had the same foresight as those socialist gentlemen.

[Skwor]

We did for a while then the elite attacked nuclear via the earth worshippers.

[momincombatboots]

I told a lib I would buy an electric car as soon as every state has as many nuclear power plants as France.

[FreedomPoster]

Here in GA we just fired up one new large nuclear plant, and its twin should start commercial generation shortly.

In a sea of bad news, I find this encouraging.

[FreedomPoster]

Thanks, you beat me to it.

[alloysteel]

There is a whole new generation of nuclear power plant designs, which do not rely on huge cooling towers and on-site storage of “spent” uranium fuel rods to operate at capacity. These new designs, know as Small Modular Reactors, can be built on an assembly line in a factory, and trucked or shipped by rail or barge to the locality, and be set up and running within WEEKS, rather than years, as is the case with the older design of light water reactors.

https://www.nuscalepower.com/en

https://www.rolls-royce.com/innovation/small-modular-reactors.aspx#/ (And you thought they just made super luxury automobiles!)

https://www.westinghousenuclear.com/energy-systems/ap300-smr

Check these advances out. The future is arriving, every day.

[ByteMercenary]

Many countries on this planet are starting to realize that the benefits of nuclear power (small footprint, 24x7 power generation, etc) far outstrip the capabilities of any green technology. And since they don’t have to deal with the massive anti-nuke bureaucracy that the USA has in our FedGov, they can get a nuke planned, built, and online in a few years instead of decades. They will be warm in winters and cool in summers while USA citizens are freezing or sweltering because of the astronomical cost of totally unreliable ‘green’ energy.

Many currently in our FedGov should swing for this situation.

[Reeses]

French government owned and operated nuclear power per wiki:

As of early September 2022, 32 of France's 56 nuclear reactors were shut down due to maintenance or technical problems.

[ronnie raygun]

They realize this to is very easily controllable

[ChessExpert]

I have no objection to nuclear.

Let’s remember though that plants need CO2 to survive, the more the better. Go green with CO2.

[Carl Vehse]

Anti-nuke, Deep State apparatchiks have created federal regulations that result in endless public hearings and opportunities for leftist lawsuits to stall construction so that a company wanting to build a nuclear reactor won’t start to earn a profit from their multi-billion dollar investment for decades.

The anti-2nd Amendment leftists have adopted the same tactic. Rather than trying to ban guns, they are working to make a regulatory labyrinth for anyone wanting to purchase a gun or ammunition.

And now these traitorous Demonicrats are starting to do the same thing to anyone trying to purchase a car or truck with an internal combustion engine. They’ve already turned cars into bumperless plastic vehicles that are essentially “totalled” after a 5-mph collision.