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A Quick Look at Nuclear Power in 2020 and Beyond

Many people in west believe that nuclear power is on it's way out. There are large movements of activist that believe that nuclear power poses an extensional threat to humankind. But, there is a growing voice among science professionals and policy makes that suggest that Nuclear power offers that most efficient and carbon net zero method to meet future energy demands from rapidly growing economies of the world. Many people think that nuclear power is the best option for future space colonies/bases, space travel, and extended missions for space exploration. What is the current projected out look for Nuclear Power

"Today there are about 440 nuclear power reactors operating in 30 countries plus Taiwan, with a combined capacity of about 400 GWe. In 2018 these provided 2563 TWh, over 10% of the world's electricity.About 55 power reactors are currently being constructed in 15 countries, notably China, India, Russia and the United Arab Emirates.Each year, the OECD's International Energy Agency (IEA) sets out the present situation as well as reference and other – particularly carbon reduction – scenarios in its World Energy Outlook (WEO) report. In the 2019 edition (WEO 2019), the IEA's 'Stated Policies Scenario' sees installed nuclear capacity growth of over 15% from 2018 to 2040 (reaching about 482 GWe). The scenario envisages a total generating capacity of 13,109 GWe by 2040, with the increase concentrated heavily in Asia, and in particular China (34% of the total). In this scenario, nuclear's contribution to global power generation is about 8.5% in 2040."
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​When people think of Nuclear power; they often think of the dreaded nuclear waste. But how much waste is there? And are there new methods to produce less waste?
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Today there are many new methods to recycle nuclear fuel that has been spent. And ultimately reduce the total long term waste. But, if you think of all the waste generated from all other activities of humankind; the waste produced from nuclear power is not what it seems. Below is a picture of a next generation nuclear plant and a recycle/reprocessing nuclear waste diagram.
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So, what is being down currently in the US ofr making new nuclear plants that use recycled nuclear waste

"Last week, INL tapped the nuclear energy startup Oklo as the first company to gain access to its stock of recycled uranium fuel. Oklo’s reactor, known as Aurora, will be a lot different from the reactors on the grid today. Each of America’s 96 nuclear reactors are housed on sprawling campuses and are capable of providing anywhere from 600 to 4,000 megawatts of power. Aurora, meanwhile, will look like a small A-frame cabin and generate just 1.5 megawatts. Oklo’s reactor also departs from legacy nuclear systems in its fuel of choice. Known as “high-assay, low-enriched uranium” or Haleu, this fuel packs more energy into a smaller package.
In nature, uranium ore mostly consists of the isotope uranium-238 and a sprinkling of uranium-235. Only uranium-235 can sustain the fission reaction that makes nuclear reactors tick, so turning the ore into usable fuel requires separating the uranium-238 out in a process called enrichment. Today, all the nuclear reactors in the US only use fuel enriched to less than 5 percent, but Haleu fuel is enriched to anywhere from 5 to 20 percent. According to Jacob DeWitte, the co-founder and CEO of Oklo, the fuel used in Aurora will be at the higher end of that range.
“The cool thing about advanced reactors is you can go to those higher levels of enrichment and make things smaller, which helps drive the economics of the system,” says DeWitte. “It’s exciting that they’re making this material available for us to use that isn’t otherwise being produced by US suppliers right now.”
INL’s decision is a big step forward for Oklo and advanced nuclear energy systems in general. The lab is currently the only facility in the US capable of producing Haleu fuel, which means any advanced nuclear system that uses the fuel must secure the lab’s blessing before it can begin demonstrating its reactor.
Oklo is currently preparing an application to build its first Aurora reactor and plans to submit it to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for review next month. DeWitte says he expects the approval process to take two years and construction of the reactor to take another. Assuming everything goes according to plan, Oklo’s Aurora would be the first American reactor to run on Haleu derived from spent nuclear fuel."
After Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Mile Island many people rightly wonder about the overall risks of nuclear power. Let's watch Video below to explore the overall risks that nuclear power inherently cause.
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    • 2017 >
      • North Korea; A Reflection of a Global Hybrid Conflict
      • Turkish Crisis: World War III but nobody knows what side they are on?
      • Glaciers or Rising Oceans; Damned if you do, damned if don’t, And maybe both
      • Walls, Walls, Walls
      • France's Hybrid Civil War
      • Predictions of space exploration for the next 500 years
    • 2018 >
      • NOAA shows a modest 3.2mm sea level rise over the last year. How significant is the current sea level raise from a geological perspective?
      • Mexico’s Quasi Hybrid Insurgency and a Reflection on Murder Rate Statistics
      • Russia strives for imperial might in the context of the first World Hybrid War
      • Paleohydrological events from the late Pleistocene to the early Holocene 30kya to 1500 AD
    • 2019 >
      • Micro Interglacial Cycles and an alternative understanding to Sea Level Fluctuations from a Paleoclimatic Perspective the Last 140,000 years
      • Increasing Summer Insolation of the Northern Hemisphere Trends Towards Reduced Ice Volume; Coupled by a 400,000 year Eccentricity Cycle Extending the Holocene Interglacial
      • Why are the Chinese Grumpy: Up to 500 million people died from famine, natural disasters, war, political suppression, ethnic cleansing, pestilence and such the last 2200 years
      • China's New Dynasty: Middle Class, Automobile, Science, and Robot Revolution
      • Orbital Variations Effects on Interglacial Behavior and Paleohydrological Events during the Quaternary Ice Age: A Compilation of MOTM editorial pieces
      • Native American Society and Civilization Collapse Part I; Old World Diseases and Expansion/Collapse of Empires not Unique to European Colonization
    • 2020 >
      • The History of the “Sieg Heil” Nazi Salute and its shared common origins with the Roman Salute, Bellamy salute, and the swearing in of the Mexico President; And the not so innocent raising of the Fist of Black power
      • In the excitement of the 2019-2020 Bush Fires in Australia; people have forgotten about the Legendary Australian Bush Fire of 1974-1975. The Current Bush Fire doesn’t even hold a torch up to it
      • Covid 19 Crisis; what does age have to do about it in Italy, forgotten cancer crisis caused by the financial crisis in 2009, and why Africa doesn’t care
      • A Quick Look at Nuclear Power in 2020 and Beyond
      • India: Rising Economic Star with a Contentious and Troubling Past
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