{"id":19,"date":"2021-08-17T06:13:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T13:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/?p=19"},"modified":"2021-08-17T06:13:52","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T13:13:52","slug":"ipcc-report-underscores-need-for-nuclear-for-rapid-decarbonization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/19\/ipcc-report-underscores-need-for-nuclear-for-rapid-decarbonization\/","title":{"rendered":"IPCC Report Underscores Need for Nuclear for Rapid Decarbonization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hlnewnuclear.com\/2021\/08\/ipcc-report-underscores-need-for-nuclear-for-rapid-decarbonization\/\">Amy Roma wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>So, what&rsquo;s the solution?&nbsp; <\/strong>The IPCC report makes clear that we need to use everything in our arsenal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.&nbsp; Moreover, we need immense sources of energy that do not produce greenhouse gases, that support a reliable electricity grid.<\/p>\n<p>Nuclear energy fits this bill as a very powerful tool to be used to combat climate change, but is an often overlooked part of the climate change solution.&nbsp; For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Effective:<\/strong> Nuclear is a zero-emission source of energy during operation and is far more efficient in certain key metrics than other clean energy sources. For example, it can produce <a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/ne\/articles\/3-reasons-why-nuclear-clean-and-sustainable\">reliable, continuous energy, on far less land<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Contributing:<\/strong> Nuclear power currently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.world-nuclear.org\/information-library\/current-and-future-generation\/nuclear-power-in-the-world-today.aspx#:~:text=Nuclear%20energy%20now%20provides%20about,in%20about%20220%20research%20reactors\">provides<\/a> <strong>over 50%<\/strong> of clean energy generation in the U.S. (despite the current U.S. nuclear fleet actually decreasing in size over the past few decades, along with a massive scale-up of renewables). And on the global front, it is the second largest source of low carbon power, making up 10% of the world&rsquo;s electricity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Innovating:<\/strong> Advanced reactors in the U.S. are on the brink of deployment, showing that nuclear power can play a key role in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hlnewnuclear.com\/2021\/04\/advanced-nuclear-energy-can-support-a-just-transition-for-communities-that-were-reliant-on-coal\/\">energy transition<\/a> from fossil fuels. Advanced reactors, which produce process heat, can decarbonize the electric grid as well as heavy industry (which accounts for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/ghgemissions\/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions#:~:text=In%202019%2C%20the%20electricity%20sector,percent%20of%20the%20U.S.%20total\">23% of U.S. emissions itself<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Roma wrote: So, what&rsquo;s the solution?&nbsp; The IPCC report makes clear that we need to use everything in our arsenal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.&nbsp; 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 tool...<br \/>[<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/19\/ipcc-report-underscores-need-for-nuclear-for-rapid-decarbonization\/\">read more<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-are-people-saying"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alphatechresearchcorp.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}