Some Good News?

[NATI BENGALS]

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-senate-passes-bill-support-advanced-nuclear-energy-deployment-2024-06-19/

“The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed a bill to accelerate the deployment of nuclear energy capacity, including by speeding permitting and creating new incentives for advanced nuclear reactor technologies.

Expanding nuclear power has broad bipartisan support, with Democrats seeing it as critical to decarbonizing the power sector to fight climate change and Republicans viewing it as a way to ensure reliable electricity supply and create jobs.

A version of the bill had already passed in the House of Representatives and it will now go to President Joe Biden for a signature to become law. It passed the Senate 88-2 votes, opens new tab.

“In a major victory for our climate and American energy security, the U.S. Senate has passed the ADVANCE Act with overwhelming, bipartisan support,” said Senator Tom Carper, a Democrat, who is Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.”

I would think our technological advancements and lessons from past failures would make nuclear power a good option.

We’ve heard a lot about droughts and water shortages and access to or lack of clean drinking water. Nuclear powered desalination plants and water treatment plants should be a major thing imo.

[*TheLeonardLeap*]

Better decades late than never.

Always blew my mind with all the talk of carbon emissions that we have less nuclear reactors now than we did 30 years ago. Solar and wind were never going to be able to eliminate coal and natural gas, it's just simply not reliable enough. We certainly have to be able to make significantly better (in both safety and efficiency) plants than the ones that were designed in like the 1950s and 1960s, too.

[HarleyDog]

This is good news. It's amazing what they can accomplish when they work together.

[NATI BENGALS]

(06-21-2024, 10:05 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Better decades late than never.

Always blew my mind with all the talk of carbon emissions that we have less nuclear reactors now than we did 30 years ago. Solar and wind were never going to be able to eliminate coal and natural gas, it's just simply not reliable enough. We certainly have to be able to make significantly better (in both safety and efficiency) plants than the ones that were designed in like the 1950s and 1960s, too.

Kind of crazy to think about. We have nuclear powered ships. How can we be good enough to stick a nuclear reactor on a floating piece of metal but not good enough to build them on land for a reasonable cost in a reasonable amount of time.

[*michaelsean*]

Never understood why it’s taken so long, but good to hear we are moving forward.

[FormerlyBengalRugby]

(06-22-2024, 07:57 PM)michaelsean Wrote: Never understood why it’s taken so long, but good to hear we are moving forward.

Odd that is a conundrum with spending and this administration...