It shouldn't take an entire generation to do this. China's building even more within the next five years:<p><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-20/china-approves-record-11-new-nuclear-power-reactors" rel="nofollow">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-20/china-app...</a>
I think the Office of Nuclear Energy is trying to get in front of Musk shutting all these projects down and moving the green funding to solar and battery.
Hopefully Kirk Sorensen / Flibe will finally get some more presence. ( <a href="https://flibe.com" rel="nofollow">https://flibe.com</a> )
With all due respect, we really ought to wait on things like this until at least February. While nuclear is likely to continue we must be aware that it's not fossil fuel and not guaranteed.
I don't have any faith in these kinds of plans. The US doesn't seem capable of actually finishing nuclear projects. I assume this is just a grift for someone to siphon away a whole lot of money.
Meanwhile battery energy storage deployments increase about 100% per year in both China and the US.<p>That means battery deployments will have tripled in... 2026.<p>Just to show the difference in growth rate, if batteries would keep increasing 100% annually, installations will have increased 1*2^25 = 300 million times by 2050. So multiple orders of magnitude different is what I'm trying to point out.<p>The growth rate that the US government sets here is 4% (1.04^25 = 3).<p>It's meaningless I think. It doesn't move the needle.