Nuclear power is the affordable, reliable energy Korea needs to fuel its dynamic economy. — President Moon Jae-in of South Korea followed through on his campaign pledge to reduce Korea’s reliance on nuclear power only a month after his inauguration in May 2017. He quickly announced Korea would stop building new reactors and not life extend those in operation. The objective was to replace nuclear…

Why extending the lives of current nuclear plants is the cheapest source of low-carbon electricity. — When it comes to the economics of electricity, there is no report more important than Projected Cost of Electricity, issued every 5 years by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA). This report (now in its 9th edition) collects electricity costs of various technologies from…

Forget about public acceptance of nuclear power — it’s time for public enthusiasm. — Nuclear power can provide almost limitless economic, reliable, low carbon electricity to power the world, yet it continues to struggle to achieve the respect it so desperately seeks. For 40 years we have been hearing the same thing — that for nuclear power to achieve its potential we must work…