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Yesterday, a bipartisan group of leaders in the U.S. Senate introduced the Nuclear Energy Leadership Act, which establishes an ambitious plan to accelerate the development of advanced nuclear reactor technologies. I can’t overstate how important this is.https://twitter.com/lisamurkowski/status/1110994821630619649 …
To prevent the worst effects of climate change, we need to reach near-zero emissions on all the things that drive it—agriculture, electricity, manufacturing, transportation, and buildings—by investing in innovation across all sectors while deploying low cost renewables.
Nuclear energy is one of these critical technologies. It’s ideal for dealing with climate change, because it is the only carbon-free, scalable energy source that’s available 24 hours a day.
I’m thrilled that senators from both sides of the aisle have come together to support advanced nuclear. This is exactly the kind of leadership our country needs to both solve the climate challenge and reassert our leadership in this important industry.
All of us know that nuclear power is not the solution. What about disposal of nuclear waste and hazards of an accident? Do you know that Germany plans to shut down all it‘s nuclear reactors by 2022 ? I don’t second you in this regard.pic.twitter.com/u1dI1cSv5A
Germany only did that because of the nuclear hysteria after Fukushima.. 
And Germans will regret that incredibly foolish knee jerk reaction. They’ll pay through their nose. Plus, thousand already died & many more got sick due to harmful emissions from coal plants replacing nuclear. No one died or will die in Fukushima due to radiation hazard. Facts
So many jobs ...
Germany is opening Coal (yes coal) fired power plants because renewables prescribed in the GND cannot meet the demand of that country. Choices are: energy we cannot afford, energy that is (supposedly) heating the planet to uninhabitable, or energy proven and risky, but available
Dude, what about the extremely hazardous nuclear waste? How come the US is always behind in renewable energy trends? Look at this list of places with almost 100% renewable energy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%25_renewable_energy#Places_with_near_100%_renewable_electricity … Why not strive toward that?
I encourage you to read through @ShellenbergerMD ‘s tweets/work on why nuclear is the better solution compared to renewables.
So right..
This is to be welcomed. Generation 3+ nuclear reactors are too expensive, too complex, too inflexible, require a long term commitment to a single vendor & vendor country, & experience long construction cost & time overruns, making them inappropriate for today's uncertain world.
In any case, I don't expect commercially available inherently safe small PBMR style nuclear reactor designs to be available in the next 15 years, let alone licenced, procured, constructed, commissioned and in commercial service in the next 25 years. But research should not stop,
I'm sure PBMR Co had v clever engineers. But after R10bn or so, they only produced paper reactors & not a single working reactor. Not even a demo reactor. Nor a prototype reactor. Nor a pilot reactor. Let alone a licenced reactor in commercial service. Not one kWh of electricity.
I agree sir! Because of the near-psychotic reaction of 3-Mile Island, which released less radiation than one standard chest x-ray, nuclear energy in this country is stuck in 1965, making our nuclear energy less efficient and more-dangerous than it needs to be. Support this bill
My father worked at TMI. I wasn't in the slightest concerned, which told me a great deal.
Dear Mr. Gates, you say nuclear energy is cleanest one and very important for us. This is undisputed. But, what about the desasters in Fokushima and Tchernobyl and generally the risk of operation in densely populated regions like Germany? How the risk can be decreased?
Gen IV Designs can transmute nuclear waste to power leaving a much smaller waste pile that needs to be stored much shorter. And engineers learned from the accidents making the new designs safer. Some are walk-away safe. Renewables AND nuclear work together. This is non-exclusive
If there is any chance that climate change is even half as dangerous as we're being told, we must pursue nuclear Gen 4. Gen 4 is very different from the Gen 2 we're familiar with. EU has been running Gen 3 for years with zero incidents. Gen 4 uses spent fuel.
#GreenNuclearDeal
WTF Billy? Why are behind the worst technology in the world? Every nuclear plant we've ever built has had problems and there's never a clear solution on how to decommissioning them. They always destroy the environment around the plant. Solar and wind is the way to go baby!
Btw, both solar and wind have a MUCH HIGHER footprint. Not even close.
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