Make Nuclear Great Again

Achieving US Growth Targets Would Restart the Industry

𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙢𝙮 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣? The Whitehouse setting targets earlier this month to grow US nuclear capacity, including adding 35 GW of new nuclear capacity (operational or under construction by 2035) and 200 GW of new capacity deployed by by 2050.

𝙒𝙝𝙮 𝙞𝙩 𝙢𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙨? Following the completion of Southern Nuclear’s Vogtle-4 there are now zero large scale reactors currently under construction in the US. Achieving these targets would effectively “re-start” the US nuclear industry, which is likely the point.

Source | World Nuclear Association

𝘿𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙨:

•  The US nuclear operating capacity sits at ~97GW and adding another 200 GW creates the headline of “tripling capacity”.

• For context, 66 reactors (~67 GW) are currently under construction globally, led by ~32 GW in China, 5.4 GW in India and ~4.4 GW in Turkey and Egypt.

Source | World Nuclear Association

𝙇𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙨:

• World Nuclear Association