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- Comment on ‘Revival’ Interrupted: World Nuclear Industry Won’t Sustain 2024 Growth, Struggles for Relevance as Renewables Surge 3 days ago:
Most of the nuclear growth is in China, the WNISR data show, where capacity grew by 3.5 gigawatts in 2024 while solar added 278 GW. “Between 2005 and 2024, there were 104 startups and 101 closures,” the report states. “Of these, 51 startups and none of the closures were in China. Thus, outside China, there has been a net decline by 48 units over the same period.”
Outside China, the report states, “nuclear generation in 2024 remained 363 TWh below the 2006 level, an almost 14% plunge.”
China is the only country with two SMR designs in operation or built, and limited operational data available. Elsewhere, they “remain largely aspirational, as despite rising public and private funding, no Western SMR construction has begun,”
Chinese and Russian governments accounted for 44 of 45 of the world’s reactor construction starts between January 2020 and mid-2025, the WNISR states. China accounted for seven of the nine construction starts in 2024.
- Comment on Can we afford to be afraid of nuclear power? 2 months ago:
Look what China has been up to with nuclear power plants.
- Comment on UK’s wasted wind power laid bare by new Octopus tracking tool 2 months ago:
In China for years if large grid scale wind or solar was installed energy storage was required. Something about wind not always blowing or night time if I remember correctly.
- Comment on US‘s wind and solar will generate more power than coal in 2024 7 months ago:
But the US energy demand saw an increase of nearly 3 percent, which is roughly double the amount of additional solar generation. Should electric use continue to grow at a similar pace, renewable production will have to continue to grow dramatically for a few years before it can simply cover the added demand.