Logan Stefanich wrote:
Brigham Young University chemical engineering professor Matthew Memmott says he has discovered an unlikely tool to help shave critical years off the process: Artificial intelligence.
While this may seem dystopian, Memmott's strategy doesn't involve giving AI nuclear codes. Instead, he's harnessing the powers of AI to speed up the nuclear process and...
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Tim Fitzpatrick wrote:
On the edge? How about molten salt thorium nuclear energy? Matthew Memmott, BYU associate professor, earned his doctorate in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before leading the reactor group at Westinghouse. He sees thorium reactors — a decades-old technology — as a safer and cheaper nuclear alternative.
It was...
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Energy.gov wrote:
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today announced $20 million in funding to demonstrate technology that will produce clean hydrogen energy from nuclear power. This innovative approach will allow clean hydrogen to serve as a source for zero-carbon electricity and represent an important economic product for nuclear plants beyond electricity. The project, base...
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Amy Roma and Stephanie Fishman wrote:
One very promising tool that has received a lot of attention lately, and which can be teamed with nuclear, is hydrogen production. Nuclear power plants can supply the required heat and electricity to produce hydrogen without generating any carbon emissions. Using nuclear in place of current energy alternatives in...
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Last month, Science X posted an article about the role of water desalination in addressing the drought that has been affecting the Western United States.
As a result of water scarcity, some parts of the world have turned to desalination for drinking water. Desalination (desal) involves removing salt and minerals from salty water, usually seawater....
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Amy Roma wrote:
So, what’s the solution? The IPCC report makes clear that we need to use everything in our arsenal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Moreover, we need immense sources of energy that do not produce greenhouse gases, that support a reliable electricity grid.
Nuclear energy fits this bill as a very powerful too...
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Amy Roma, Sachin Desai and Stephanie Fishman wrote:
The premise and structure of the 2021 draft ANIA is mostly the same as the version that was introduced in 2020. ANIA’s provisions can be broken down into four general bins: 1) international provisions to support U.S. competitiveness and global leadership, 2) supporting domestic advanced reactor efforts,...
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Amy Roma, Mary Anne Sullivan, Sachin Desai and Stephanie Fishman wrote:
Many advanced reactor developers are designing their technologies to pair with renewables. A recent report from the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC), the government entity responsible for overseeing America’s bulk power system, underscores the benefits that can be achieved through an advanced nuclear/renewabl...
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Amy Roma, Sachin Desai and Stephanie Fishman wrote:
Among the domestic and international commitments, President Biden pledged that the U.S. would cut its emissions by 50-52% below 2005 levels by 2030. This announcement dovetails into his larger promise to make the U.S. electricity sector carbon neutral by 2035 and the U.S. economy net zero b...
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Amy Roma, Sachin Desai and Juliya Grigoryan wrote:
On March 31st, President Biden unveiled a massive $2 trillion infrastructure and clean energy plan called the American Jobs Plan that aims, in part, to tackle what the White House calls two of the greatest challenges of our time: the climate crisis and competition with China. Among...
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