Central Iowa Section November Meeting : NUCLEAR POWER: STEPS FORWARD,BACKWARDS AND SIDEWAYS
This event will be in-person and in conjunction with the Power and Energy Society Chapter.
Presentation –
Our Section Meeting will feature a presentation John Hawkinson our Section’s resident nuclear engineer.
Mr. Hawkinson will discuss what’s been going on in the nuclear power industry over the last few years.
As we enter the mid-2020s, an attempted second nuclear renaissance has had decidedly mixed results. From an original 31 new nuclear reactor builds that were proposed in the late 2000s, only two were constructed and completed. Instead, much of the existing US nuclear power fleet, built in the 1970s and 1980s, has been renovated and continues to operate today.
Is a second nuclear renaissance truly dead in the USA? Or have concerns about global warming, the US electric grid’s stability and a deteriorating global political environment given a new lease on life to advanced reactors?
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