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Is Europe’s Nuclear Phaseout Starting to Phase Out?

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Scientists from the EU Joint Research Centre agreed, reporting that nuclear power doesn’t cause undue environmental harm, despite the need to store nuclear waste. In October, Romania adopted a plan to double its nuclear capacity by 2031. We need every clean energy source, building as much as they can, as fast as they can.

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The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

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But if one persistent cadre of nuclear optimists are right, then Linglong One could be a model for fission’s future in an age of clean energy. Even more discouragingly, nuclear’s per-unit cost increased 26 percent between 2009 and 2019—while solar and wind power prices plummeted instead.

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