The Urgent Need to Decarbonize Energy Production for Mitigating Climate Change Sustains Global Focus on Nuclear Power
Urgent need to revive focus on nuclear power as a long term, reliable, sustainable, and clean electricity source with minimal carbon emissions amidst short term issues and challenges is poised to drive the global market for Nuclear Power to reach 3.1 thousand TeraWatt-hours (TWh) by 2024 . There is an urgent need for generating more not less carbon-free electricity for combating climate change. While renewables, including solar and wind power, generate carbon-free electricity, their contribution towards carbon-free emissions is negligible in comparison to that of nuclear energy. Besides providing a major source of commercial electric power, nuclear power is also useful in powering majority of military submarines and aircraft carriers enabling the realization of the industrial scale ‘plutonium economy’ vision that aims at making nuclear power socially, environmentally, economically, and politically acceptable. Countries including the US, Russia, France, China and South Korea accou...