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Global nuclear generation hit a record high in 2024, but almost entirely because existing plants ran harder—not because new capacity was built, and outside China and Russia, virtually no new reactors broke ground. The core tension is that nuclear is genuinely necessary for climate goals and has surging political and tech-industry support, yet the Western industry keeps repeating the same pattern of cost overruns, missed timelines, and unbuilt SMRs that collapsed the last "renaissance" in 2008. The most important fault line isn't optimists versus pessimists—it's whether the structural barriers (workforce gaps, enrichment bottlenecks, regulatory inertia, capital costs that keep rising while renewables keep falling) have actually been solved this time, or whether better marketing and larger subsidies are papering over the same unresolved problems.
January 2026: The Energy Department announced a $2.7 billion investment to strengthen domestic enrichment, in support of President Trump's ...
Looking ahead. Federal government support for domestic SMR technology has increased. In March 2025, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) reissued a tender for $900 million in federal funding to promote SMR development. In June 2025 DOE announced the Energy Reactor Pilot Program.
The global reactor fleet ran at an average capacity factor* of 83% in 2024, higher than any other source of electricity. This measure of ...
Fundraising Fever: In the span of five weeks, nuclear startups secured more than $1 billion in private investments during the last quarter. It ...
Nuclear reactors generated a total of 2667 TWh of electricity in 2024, up 66 TWh from 2601 TWh in 2023. This is the highest ever generation from nuclear in one year, surpassing the previous record of 2660 TWh in 2006.
This primer provides basic information on advanced reactors to help the public and stakeholders understand the promise of innovative nuclear technologies.
A Nuclear Renaissance would require reactors to become cheaper, easier and faster to build, and we don't have much evidence of that today. A case in point is ...
Battery costs are also falling, down about 40% in 2024, while nuclear plant costs continue to rise, the report said. “Together these new ...
Nuclear energy provides access to clean, reliable and affordable electricity. It accounts for around 9% of global electricity and 25% of all ...
(2). The fuel cost assumptions for Lazard's LCOE analysis of gas-fired generation, coal-fired generation and nuclear generation resources are $3.45/MMBTU ...
72% favor nuclear energy vs. 28% who oppose. The 2025 National Nuclear Energy Public Opinion Survey[1] finds continued highly favorable public ...
When construction began in March 2017 completion was expected in 2025. Since then the project has been subject to several delays, including some caused by the ...
The growing global demand for electricity and nuclear power generation is raising concerns about a nuclear reactor fuel shortage (The Wall ...
China's 14th Five-Year Plan (2021-2025) stated that China would “actively develop nuclear power in a safe and orderly manner”79. With 60 GWe of operable capacity and no more than 4 GWe of reactors under construction scheduled to start up before the end of 2025, actual capacity will fall short of thi...
Nuclear Energy In 2023 / A Year Of Progress, But Concerns Linger Over Cancellation Of NuScale SMR Project. By David Dalton / Kamen Kraev 1 February 2024.
This latest edition of the International Energy Agency (IEA) flagship publication, the World. Energy Outlook (WEO), comes at a time when energy is ...
Big tech signing 10GW+ of new US nuclear capacity in past year. Microsoft's 20-year $16B Three Mile Island restart (835MW) targeting 2028.
The design features a sodium- cooled “fast”reactor, which draws on earlier TerraPower's TWR and GE's Prism designs, to produce heat and ...
Analysis of negative power prices due to oversupply of solar and wind power with possible solutions. A lot of wind and solar power is being generated.
Estimates for total global production of primary (freshly mined and processed) uranium are 161.7 million pounds (lb) U3O8 for 2025, representing about 90 percent of worldwide requirements (GlobalData, 2024; WNA, 2025d, e) and approximately 153 million lb U3O8 for 2024 (UxC, 2024), representing about...
By May 2024, rates had gone up 23.7% — the highest the state has ever seen — after Vogtle Units 3 and 4 took 15 years to build and cost $36.8 billion, more than double the original timeline and budget of $14 billion, according to the coalition's report.
... nuclear generation must more than double by mid century. The 6X Pathway: IPCC Pathway P3 requires six fold increase in global nuclear capacity ...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday jumped into the decades-long dispute over what to do with thousands of metric tons of nuclear waste.
"In October 2024, the world's first thorium addition to a molten salt reactor was completed, making it the first in the world to establish a ...
As of January 1, 2025, the schedule of the total Plant annual decommissioning expense amounts remaining to be collected from ratepayers is ...
Energy demand in the U.S. grew 2% in 2025, according to a report on the global state of energy published Monday by watchdog the International ...
In 2024, four of the seven US ISOs set annual records for curtailed renewable energy—and 2025 is breaking those records again. In SPP, for ...
All waivers must terminate by January 1, 2028. The enforcement of these import limitations is overseen by the Secretary of Commerce, who is tasked with implementing the annual import caps in a way that minimizes burdens on the commercial nuclear industry.
The cost estimates are technology-agnostic, but distinctions between large (1,000 MWe) and small (300 MWe) reactors (often called small modular reactors, or ...
The U.S. Department of Energy today announced $2.7 billion to strengthen domestic enrichment services over the next ten years.
Battery pack prices for stationary storage dropped to $70/kWh in 2025, 45% lower than in 2024. This is the sharpest drop across all segments ...
Renewable plants are considered intermittent or variable sources and ... or they can be paired with a reliable baseload power like nuclear energy.
With America's credibility eroding, Europeans are looking for alternatives to US extended nuclear deterrence. Leaders should find confidence ...
The plant is set to supply Microsoft with power via a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) and could now generate electricity into the 2050s ...
New reactor designs incorporate passive safety systems, which safely shut down the reactor using gravity and convection without the need for ...
The U.S. nuclear non-renaissance highlights a range of risks that accompany clean energy infrastructure development, including regulatory risks, ...
This paper presents average values of levelized costs for new generation resources as represented in the National. Energy Modeling System (NEMS) for our Annual ...
Georgia Power filed their proposed 2025 integrated resource plan with Georgia officials. ... and grid integration. Measures that aim to address ...
France already spent $6 billion on its nuclear weapons in 2024 and it is unclear how much this unexpected increase will add to that exorbitant ...
In May 2025 under Chancellor Friedrich Merz, Germany abandoned its opposition to recognizing nuclear power as equivalent to renewables in EU climate policy.
At the beginning of 2025, coal plant operators had planned to retire 8.5 GW of capacity; however, 4.8 GW of planned retirements were delayed to ...
The permit prescribed the latest date for construction of the reactor to be completed as 31 December 2026. Kairos Power broke ground for the ...
Nuclear energy employment stayed level in 2024, but more jobs are on the horizon. The nuclear energy sector employed 67,900 workers in 2024 ...
So combined with the $33 billion in tax equity and tax credit sales proceeds raised to finance wind, solar and battery projects, the total ...
Nuclear plants run with high capacity factors and consistent output, lowering carbon while stabilizing grids. Wind and solar bring speed and ...
With aging reactors, high costs, and slow build times, Europe's nuclear output will depend on lifetime extensions rather than new capacity.
In April 2025, China's State Council approved construction of 10 new reactors—eight Hualong One (HPR1000) units and two CAP1000 units—across ...
Broadly speaking, the report recommends the repeated deployment of Gen III+ reactor designs to rebuild the foundation of domestic manufacturing, ...
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