28 nuclear plants may be built in the United States

nuclear.jpgAccording to several sources, the International Herald Tribune, Business Wire and CNN, the United States plan to build several nuclear power plants in the coming years.

The IHT article states : ” Power companies have tentative plans to put the 28 new reactors at 19 sites around the country. “

So after the Russian Confederation, the United Kingdom, Brazil and Australia, the USA is the fifth country I talk about that plans to build new nuclear reactors.

The United States are currently seeing a surge in nuclear energy and are increasingly interested by nuclear energy. This is quite well explained by the IHT :


So, the nuclear industry asked the US Federal government loans :



It has to be remembered that US electricity is half generated by coal fired plants. This energy source is the one that is emitting the most carbon dioxide.

It is estimated by the French Commissariat à l’énergie atomique (CEA) that a kWh created by nuclear emits 32 times less CO2 than coal-fired plant (33.5 grams to be compared to 1,075). Similar figures are given by various different sources.

So if the United States build a subsequent amount of nuclear plants and that some of them replace coal-fired ones, the US overall emissions will decrease steeply. On top of that, this large country has to work on energy conservation, clean coal technologies and renewable energies. Clean coal technologies will also benefit from state loans.

These four solutions can be implemented worldwide in order to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and to answer to the growing energy needs.

France and other countries have too the obligation to work on those matters, and this

Figure from the CEA comes from :

Clefs CEA ; Hydrogène, les nouvelles technologies de l’énergie” ;
Issue number 50/51 ; Page 6 ; Winter 2004/2005 ;
Calculation made via the average of low and high hypothesis ;

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