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The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

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Instead, they think, a clean-energy transition might be better served with a fleet of smaller, more modular, reactors—like Linglong One. I think, in the next 15, 20 years, there is going to be a real chance for SMRs to be commercially available and widely deployed.” Hence the name: small modular reactors (SMRs).

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We Need More Than Just Electric Vehicles

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Manufacturing an EV battery using coal-based electricity results in more than three times the greenhouse-gas emissions of manufacturing a battery with electricity from renewable sources. 70 percent of lithium-ion batteries are produced in China, which derived 64 percent of its electricity from coal in 2020.