Today’s announcement from the Province of Ontario outlining an ongoing commitment to nuclear power – including development of new nuclear technologies – continues to expand the range of future opportunities for the Bruce Power site and aligns with the company’s strategy to contribute to a Net Zero Canada by 2050.
Watch the recording of the Cleantech webinar exploring how nuclear innovation must be part of the solution for decarbonization in electricity, industry and transport. You’ll gain expert insights into the role innovation can play in improving the economics, environmental impacts and performance of nuclear energy.
Terrestrial Energy Chief Technology Officer David Hill provides an update on IMSR commercialization in the U.S. and Canada at Oak Ridge National Lab's 2020 Molten Salt Reactor Workshop.
Read the report from Lucid Catalyst on How Hydrogen-Enabled Synthetic Fuels Can Help Deliver the Paris Goals.
This supplement to the IAEA’s Advanced Reactor Information System (ARIS) provides a summary about Terrestrial Energy’s Integral Molten Salt Reactor on p. 243.
IMSR power plants use truly innovative nuclear technology to be safe, reliable, clean and low-cost, making them today’s alternative to fossil fuel combustion. Like all nuclear technology, this small modular reactor is emission-free. Producing heat and electricity efficiently makes IMSR power plants a powerful and versatile tool to power economic growth and achieve deep decarbonization.
Read the International Atomic Energy Agency's Advanced Reactors Information System (ARIS) status report on Terrestrial Energy's IMSR.
A cutaway of the Integral Molten Salt Reactor and balance of plant.
As Americans experience record-breaking heat waves, floods, and wildfires this August, solutions to climate change are advancing, and getting introduced in the U.S. Congress. But do Americans understand the connection between energy, pollution, and climate? Which energy sources do they support? ecoAmerica’s American Climate Perspectives Survey found year-over-year shifts in awareness and attitudes on key energy sources. The results show fairly accurate understanding and support for wind and solar energies, accurate understanding and low support for oil and coal energies, misconceptions of nuclear and natural gas energies, waning support for gas, and rising support for both existing nuclear energy and new nuclear technologies.
"Decarbonization will require deployment of low-carbon technologies, but analysts have struggled to quantify which ones could be deployed in practice—especially where technologies have faced public opposition," according to a new paper in Energy Policy. This paper looks at how public opinion can affect deployment of low-carbon energies, and nuclear power in particular. In the paper, the authors attempt "to disentangle public opposition due to the dread of nuclear power from opposition stemming from its actuarial risk."
