Full Title: Nuclear Energy Renaissance Set to Move Ahead Without U.S.
Author(s): Ingrid Akerlind and Josh Freed
Publisher(s): Third Way
Publication Date: August 1, 2015
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Description (excerpt):
In early 2014, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) climate assessment listed nuclear alongside renewables and carbon capture and storage as the technologies necessary to successfully mitigate climate change.1 The International Energy Agency (IEA) has concluded that the world needs to add the equivalent of between 270 and 410 new, large-scale nuclear reactors to electricity grids by 2035 to mitigate climate change and meet growing energy demand.2 That means potentially nearly doubling the fleet of 435 nuclear reactors that are generating electricity today. This ambitious boost in nuclear energy would be in addition to the even more significant increase in renewable energies, like wind and solar, that the IEA also calls for.3