"US is Losing the Nuclear Energy Race to Russia and China"
Jan 28, 2024 14:27:37 GMT
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Post by chang on Jan 28, 2024 14:27:37 GMT
This is really quite sad, when the US used to, could, and should be the undisputed leader of global nuclear energy development.
www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2024/01/25/the-us-is-losing-the-nuclear-energy-race-to-russia-and-china/amp/
"This decline is by choice. The US certainly used to have the technical and financial resources to compete with Russia and China in these fields, but the political will to pursue nuclear power (despite its overwhelmingly green characteristics (zero CO2 emissions, and its exemplary safety record in North America) has been lacking. The notorious Three Mile Island accident in 1979, killed, injured, irradiated, or harmed zero people. Meanwhile, ballooning costs and the nightmare that is America's byzantine environmental review and permitting processes resulted in the last nuclear power plant arriving 7 years late and 17 billion dollars over budget. It's little surprise the U.S. is falling behind in many nuclear areas...
"Building a new reactor is uniquely difficult in the United States due to its own self-imposed bureaucratic straight jacket. It takes an average 3.2 years to generate an environmental impact statement (EIS) for a new reactor – that is generate, not process. There are then years of additional Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearings to officially license any project. None of these concern safety – safety inspections occur independently of this process and largely function as designed, lasting only months. Then, years of public hearings susceptible and often systematically captured by private interests and militant environmentalists further delays construction, forcing the U.S. to burn coal and natural gas instead of the clean atom."
www.forbes.com/sites/arielcohen/2024/01/25/the-us-is-losing-the-nuclear-energy-race-to-russia-and-china/amp/
"This decline is by choice. The US certainly used to have the technical and financial resources to compete with Russia and China in these fields, but the political will to pursue nuclear power (despite its overwhelmingly green characteristics (zero CO2 emissions, and its exemplary safety record in North America) has been lacking. The notorious Three Mile Island accident in 1979, killed, injured, irradiated, or harmed zero people. Meanwhile, ballooning costs and the nightmare that is America's byzantine environmental review and permitting processes resulted in the last nuclear power plant arriving 7 years late and 17 billion dollars over budget. It's little surprise the U.S. is falling behind in many nuclear areas...
"Building a new reactor is uniquely difficult in the United States due to its own self-imposed bureaucratic straight jacket. It takes an average 3.2 years to generate an environmental impact statement (EIS) for a new reactor – that is generate, not process. There are then years of additional Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearings to officially license any project. None of these concern safety – safety inspections occur independently of this process and largely function as designed, lasting only months. Then, years of public hearings susceptible and often systematically captured by private interests and militant environmentalists further delays construction, forcing the U.S. to burn coal and natural gas instead of the clean atom."
