The UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) recently released a report entitled “Life Cycle Assessment of Electricity Generation Options” (UNECE Report; Report). The report analyzes the environmental profiles of the full lifecycle of various technologies in order to evaluate their “all in” environmental costs—such as greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), human toxicity, water use, and other environmental and health metrics of different electricity sources—including wind, solar, coal, gas, hydro, and nuclear. In a finding that may be very surprising to many, but likely not to those in the nuclear field, nuclear had some of the smallest impacts on the environment out of all the electricity sources analyzed.
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Nuclear power advocates challenge state Climate Action Council plan
ALBANY — A group of advocates, including a former NASA director, wants the state’s Climate Action Council to include nuclear power initiatives in its scoping plan for a carbon-free environment.
State leaders adopted the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, which calls for New York to have 100 percent zero-emissions electricity by 2040.
Climate scientist and former director of NASA’s Goddard Institute James Hansen commended the legislation but critiqued the state’s initial scoping plan this week, arguing that it gives “short shrift to our most reliable, proven means of decarbonization – nuclear power.”
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Idaho National Labs to build Pentagon’s mobile ‘nuclear microreactor’
The Strategic Capabilities Office is considering engineering designs by BWXT Advanced Technologies, LLC, and X-energy, LLC. One design will be selected and announced this spring.
WASHINGTON: The Pentagon today announced that Idaho National Labs will build and initially operate a type of mobile “nuclear microreactor” designed to help power its ever-more-electrified military machine.
Project Pele, a project under the Strategic Capabilities Office, will be the first electricity-generating Generation IV nuclear reactor built in the US, following Chinese success in the field last year. The US version is designed to deliver one to five megawatts of electrical power for a minimum of three years, according to the press release.
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Is the Media Missing the REAL Nuclear Threat in Ukraine?
(There isn't a threat from Ukraine's nuclear power plants.)
...a podcast from https://www.decouplepodcast.org with host Jesse Freeston at jessefreeston.com
How dangerous are Ukraine's nuclear power plants? Could our wartime atomic fears be critically misplaced? Jesse watches WAY too much coverage of the fighting around Ukraine's reactors and speaks to some proper experts about what he sees.
Some of the topics covered:
- Could Ukraine's Current Reactors Explode Like Chernobyl?
- Health Effects of Chernobyl
- Radioactive Cloud Over Europe?
- Could We See Another Fukushima?
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