News & Articles on Nuclear Power
Nuclear is not renewable, but it’s listed here for organizational reasons. I wasn’t really interested in nuclear, didn’t think it had any future, and that it was effectively dead. I wasn’t writing about it. However, like a vampire, nuclear kept rising from the grave and stalking the land. Talk continued of reviving it one more time. This talk had a real effect on public policy in North America, especially in Ontario, Canada. Thus, I felt it necessary to include nuclear topics and this was the place on my web site where it was easiest to insert
The first US nuclear reactor built from scratch in decades enters commercial operation in Georgia
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External Source
Georgia Power Co. announced Monday that Unit 3 at Plant Vogtle, southeast of Augusta, has completed testing and is now in commercial operation, seven years late and $17 billion over budget.
Ontario opts for high-risk nuclear over low-risk energy sources
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Mark Winfield
n fact, the announcements by the Ford government of 4800MW in new build nuclear projects at the Bruce Nuclear site near Tiverton, and three additional new reactors at the Darlington site east of Toronto, committed Ontario to one of the largest nuclear construction programs in the world.
Jérôme Guillet on Substack
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Jérôme Guillet
Insightful analysis by an authority on wind energy and energy policy with extensive experience in the offshore wind sector.
The duck in the room – the end of baseload
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Jérôme Guillet
There’s simply no space left for new (or even, soon, old) nuclear
The revolving door at public utilities commissions? It’s alive and well
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External Source
Of the 473 commissioners for whom Heern could find information on what they did after they left utility regulation, 50% of them went to work for one of the industries they regulated, or in an industry-adjacent role such as consulting. “That revolving door is definitely alive and well,” Heern told me.
The real lesson about the end of nuclear in Germany–The end of baseload is coming
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Jérôme Guillet
A lot of articles about the closure of the last German nuclear power plants have emphasized the cost in carbon emissions of closing nuclear plants rather than coal (more precisely: lignite) plants: see for instance Jean-Marc Jancovici, the highly publicized French pundit.
Ontario’s deepening hydro mess
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Mark Winfield
The Ford government is surprisingly unwilling to explore renewable energy projects despite the wide range of options available to it.
EDF – the strategic questions and to-do list
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Jérôme Guillet
Following my previous post on EDF’s woes and their impact on the European market, here’s a list of topics, both practical and political, that the company needs to deal, and their domestic impact in France.
EDF cuts output at nuclear power plants as French rivers get too warm
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Julia Kollewe
Company says it is reducing production for few hours where possible as ability to cool plants is restricted
EDF’s woes are a bigger long term problem for EU energy than the war in Ukraine
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Jérôme Guillet
France is looking at many dark years. All the criticism one can hear about Germany’s decision to close down its nuclear plants misses the fact that gas supply is not the problem for the power sector: the real problem is French nuclear, which allows high gas prices to cause power price increases across the board.
