21 July 2021
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Delivery of the UK’s net-zero goals requires a vast increase in the production of zero-carbon electricity, hydrogen and district heating. Nuclear can make a vital and commercially viable contribution to the rapid scale-up of these energy vectors, write Dr Paul Nevitt, technical director of the Advanced Fuel Cycle Programme (AFCP) at the National Nuclear Laboratory (NNL), Kirsty Gogan and Eric Ingersoll, managing directors at LucidCatalyst, and Scott Milne, head of insights at Energy Systems Catapult.
From left to right: Kirsty Gogan, Eric Ingersoll, Scott Milne and Paul Nevitt It is impossible to overestimate the scale of the challenge ahead for the UK in reaching net-zero by 2050. With a range of low-carbon technologies in the mix, visualising the country s future energy landscape is no simple task. System-wide, forward-thinking analysis, however, helps paint this picture.
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27 May 2021
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Failure to include a role for nuclear heat in mainstream scenarios proposed to achieve net-zero by 2050 is an opportunity lost, participants in a World Nuclear Association-hosted webinar,
The role of nuclear beyond electricity, said yesterday.
Webinar participants (clockwise from top left) Ingersoll, Bilbao y León, Gorman and Sawyer
Nuclear is the only zero-carbon energy source that can produce both electricity and heat and this opens very exciting opportunities to decarbonise hard-to-abate sectors such as industry, heavy transport, and many other sectors beyond electricity, World Nuclear Association Director General Sama Bilbao y León said in her introduction to the webinar.