{"id":61942,"date":"2022-02-18T07:47:56","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T12:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61942"},"modified":"2022-02-18T07:47:56","modified_gmt":"2022-02-18T12:47:56","slug":"nuclear-power-is-no-solution-for-the-worlds-energy-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61942","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Power Is No Solution For the World’s Energy Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NUCLEAR POWER IS NO SOLUTION FOR THE WORLD\u2019S ENERGY PROBLEMS<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Nuclear power is no solution to the world\u2019s energy problems. Not even close.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s important for electric power but electric power is not even 40% of the world\u2019s energy supply\u2014nor is it expected to increase much over the next 30 years.<\/p>\n

IEA projects that nuclear power will account for only 5.5% of world energy supply in 2050 (Figure 1). That\u2019s an increase of only 0.5% from 2020.<\/p>\n

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Figure 1. IEA most-likely scenario is for nuclear to account for 5.5% of world energy supply in 2050\u2014an increase of 0.5% from 2020. Source: IEA & Labyrinth Consulting Services, Inc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nuclear power has limited application beyond electric power generation and some heating capability. Yet the outlook is not much better for nuclear to increase as a major source of electric power either. IEA\u2019s\u00a0most-likely scenario is for nuclear to account for only 12.5% of electric power supply in 2050 (Figure 2).<\/p>\n

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Figure 2. IEA most-likely scenario is for nuclear to account for 12.5% of electric power supply in 2050. Source: IEA & Labyrinth Consulting Services, Inc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Electric power currently accounts for about 39% of world energy supply (Figure 3). IEA estimates that it will only increase to about 41% by 2050.<\/p>\n

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Figure 3. Electric power will increase from 39% to 41% of world energy supply by 2050. Source: IEA & Labyrinth Consulting Services, Inc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

EIA\u2019s International Energy Outlook 2021 is largely in agreement with IEA\u2019s assessment of both electric and nuclear power. Unlike IEA, however, EIA provides data to account for the considerable energy losses during power generation, transmission and distribution. The losses amounted to 64% in 2020 (Table 1).<\/p>\n

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Table 1. EIA electric and nuclear net power to the electric grid and energy losses. Source: EIA and Labyrinth Consulting Services, Inc.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When losses are included, net electric power to the grid is expected to increase\u00a0from 19% in 2020 to 28% in 2050 (Figure 4) instead of 41% in IEA\u2019s evaluation shown above in Figure 3.<\/p>\n

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NUCLEAR POWER IS NO SOLUTION FOR THE WORLD\u2019S ENERGY PROBLEMS Nuclear power is no solution to the world\u2019s energy problems. Not even close. It\u2019s important for electric power but electric power is not even 40% of the world\u2019s energy supply\u2014nor is it expected to increase much over the next 30 years. IEA projects that nuclear […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8195,1103,416,433,578,579],"class_list":["post-61942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-art-berman","tag-electricity","tag-iea","tag-international-energy-agency","tag-nuclear-energy","tag-nuclear-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61943,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61942\/revisions\/61943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}