Alexander Kaufman is a senior reporter at HuffPost, based in New York. He covers energy and climate change. A two-time winner of the SEAL Environmental Journalism Award and a 2024 recipient of the Covering Climate Now Journalism Award, he has filed stories from the Arctic and the Amazon, Europe and East Asia.
on reviving the defunct Three Mile Island nuclear plant to power its energy-hungry data centers, Google and now Amazon are inking massive deals to finance the United States’ ambitious atomic revival plans.a megadeal with two utilities to fund the construction of next-generation nuclear plants near its server farms in Virginia and Washington.Unlike its rivals’ recent deals, the tech giant isn’t just agreeing to buy nuclear-generated electricity.
“This is unbridled good news for the nuclear industry in that we are getting a clear demand signal from some of the most well-resourced private corporations on Earth that there is a need and a market for new nuclear generation,” said James Krellenstein, a physicist and industry historian who now serves as the chief executive of the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based nuclear consultancy Alva Energy.“The market is signaling that, the U.S.
At the same time, the effects of climate change already underway – more severe storms, hotter and longer heat waves – are straining a grid that wasn’t built to withstand extreme weather and serve a record number of households’ air-conditioning needs. Cooling tower three with one and two in the background are seen at the nuclear reactor facility at the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in May in Waynesboro, Georgia.By the time those two new units at the Alvin W. Vogtle Electric Generating Plant in Georgia were finally completed earlier this year, the political consensus across the world had shifted.
It would help, first, to have at least one that’s on the grid. China, which is building nuclear reactors of all kinds faster than any other nation,its first high-temperature gas-cooled reactor up to its grid last December. The U.S. is now at least a decade behind China in deploying next-generation reactors, aNeither X-energy nor Kairos have built reactors that have produced electricity yet, Krellenstein said.
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