Clean Power Professionals Group
This special interest group is for professionals to connect and discuss all types of carbon-free power alternatives, including nuclear, renewable, tidal and more.
Shared Link
The controversial future of nuclear power in the U.S.
Nuclear. This is the way!
The controversial future of nuclear power in the U.S.
As the climate crisis worsens, the discussion intensifies over what role nuclear power should play in fighting it.
Discussions
Though the value of keeping existing plants online isn't controversial, it is opposed by those hungering for a piece of the "green energy" pie - i.e., profiting at the expense of climate change progress.
2.4 billion watts of clean energy - 9% of all electricity consumed in California - is generated safely at Diablo Canyon Power Plant, near San Luis Obispo.
"The status of existing plants has big implications: Including Indian Point, seven gigawatts of nuclear power are in danger of going offline before 2026 due to depressed electricity prices.
'Taking out nuclear power plants completely destroys gains with renewables,' [MIT Nuclear Engineer Jacopo] Buongiorno says. When the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, which produced about 8 percent of California’s electricity, closed in 2013, the local cost of electricity increased, and carbon dioxide emissions in California increased by 9.2 million tons the following year."
Get Published - Build a Following
The Energy Central Power Industry Network is based on one core idea - power industry professionals helping each other and advancing the industry by sharing and learning from each other.
If you have an experience or insight to share or have learned something from a conference or seminar, your peers and colleagues on Energy Central want to hear about it. It's also easy to share a link to an article you've liked or an industry resource that you think would be helpful.
Your access to Member Features is limited.
Sign in to Participate