This is what nuclear power looks like 8 years after Fukushima
2019年12月11日 · Eight years after the Fukushima disaster, Japan’s nuclear power industry is rebounding. Its government has given initial approval for the Onagawa reactor to restart. The country plans to generate 20% of its energy from its reactors by 2030.
Fukushima’s nuclear disaster site to become solar and wind …
2020年2月25日 · Operating at full capacity, the hub will generate 600 megawatts of power – about two-thirds the output of a single nuclear reactor. With costs estimated at more than $2.75 billion, the new plants will supply electricity to the Tokyo metropolitan area, connecting to the city’s power network through a still-to-be-constructed 80km-wide grid ...
Chernobyl's nuclear disaster site is being transformed into a solar ...
2017年12月7日 · Only the Fukushima nuclear disaster and what took place in Chernobyl qualified as a Level 7 disaster, the highest classification of an energy accident. A flawed reactor design with workers that weren’t trained well for a safety test proved to be fatal. The steam caused multiple explosions and fire rapidly spread over the area.
Can #AI actually increase human productivity? - World Economic …
2023年5月16日 · Other LLMs that were recently rolled out publicly include Google’s Bard and Anthropic’s Claude.But generative AI is not limited to text: in recent years, we have also seen generative AI systems that can create images, such as Midjourney, Stable Diffusion or DALL-E, and more recently multi-modal systems that combine text, …
Nuclear power’s comeback is down to small modular reactors
2022年10月6日 · The second type of nuclear power is fusion, which is still at the development stage. This involves heating hydrogen to form plasma. This is then contained by a powerful magnetic field in the reactor to enable fusion reactions …
These are some of the world’s worst environmental disasters
2016年4月20日 · The destroyed roof of the No.3 reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. A 2011 earthquake and tsunami crippled the plant, causing a nuclear disaster and releasing radioactive material into the environment.
What does nuclear power really cost? | World Economic Forum
2015年5月26日 · The World Economic Forum is an independent international organization committed to improving the state of the world by engaging business, political, academic and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. Incorporated as a not-for-profit foundation in 1971, and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, the Forum is tied to no political, partisan or national interests.
Why we must embrace nuclear energy to fight climate change
2024年1月17日 · The accidents at Chernobyl and at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station left long shadows of mistrust and underinvestment. The upfront cost of building a nuclear power plant is considerable and budget overruns and long delays have made it more difficult to gain support for new construction.
Nuclear power can play a big role in the energy transition
2020年7月10日 · As the system proposed is equipped with passive heat removal, a meltdown accident of the Fukushima or Three-Mile Island types would also be impossible. The reduced waste produced from such a plant will have shorter lifetimes (around 500 years vs. 300,000 years) because the reaction uses thorium-based rather than uranium-based fuel.
A Collaborative Framework for Accelerating Advanced Nuclear and …
2024年11月7日 · At COP28, 22 countries committed to triple global nuclear power capacity by 2050 – since then, they have been joined by 14 major banks and additional countries. To meet net-zero commitments and growing energy demand, nuclear new builds of multiple sizes and types will be needed. Small modular reactors (SMRs) and other advanced nuclear technologies represent clean energy solutions that, when ...