Sentences with phrase «current nuclear power industry»
In a nutshell, the only barriers to thorium - based power are politics, red tape, and the inertia of the current nuclear power industry.
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Genuine opposition to nuclear power, as opposed to astroturfing by the coal industry, best explains the current situation.
Response: In designing SMR - 160, Holtec has carefully analyzed operating plant data from the nuclear power industry in order to identify the underlying reasons for current O&M costs.
As such, the closure is symbolic of the broader woes of the nuclear power industry in the United States, which has been unable to build new reactors and is seeing the current reactors being shuttered, one by one.
The share of nuclear power in the electricity mix is today 11 % and this will rise to 12 % under current policies, however it must reach 18 % by 2040 to meet COP21 climate targets yet current prices do not provide the necessary signals to nuclear industry investors.