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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. But to decarbonize Europe’s grid in short order, the renewable requirements are already steep, and removing nuclear energy from the picture makes it even harder to match that curve.

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The Future of Fission Reactors May Be Small

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Most of them are demonstration reactors, not linked to the greater grid, but a crucial stepping stone toward it. NuScale has plans to build a US plant in Idaho by 2030; the company is involved in the UK , Poland , and Romania as well. Rolls-Royce hopes to get the first of its reactors on the grid by 2029. startup NuScale.

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