MIT: Major New Report on the Future of Nuclear Energy

• The findings are that new policy models and cost-cutting technologies would help nuclear play vital role in climate solutions.  Progress in reducing carbon emissions requires a broad range of actions to effectively leverage nuclear energy.
• Achieving deep reductions in carbon emissions reductions that are necessary to slow or reverse the impacts of climate change requires investing in nuclear energy as a key strategy.
• The authors of a new MIT study say that unless nuclear energy is fully incorporated into the global mix of low-carbon energy technologies, the challenge of climate change will be much more difficult and costly to solve.

Key issues of cost and policy need to be addressed by the industry, its supply chain, and regulators, among others, must be addressed for nuclear energy to take its place as a major low-carbon energy source.

In the The Future of Nuclear Energy in a Carbon-Constrained World, released by the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) on [last] September 3, the authors analyze the reasons for the current global stall of nuclear energy capacity — which currently accounts for only 5 percent of global primary energy production — and discuss measures that could be taken to arrest and reverse that trend.

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