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Nuclear energy is too expensive to build and it is also too important, relative to dealing with climate change, to have its future left to market forces. Several new efforts address these issues with ideas about how to fix the problem.
11 December 2020
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The case for nuclear as a proven source of clean, reliable and sustainable electricity supply should be clear to all, but the business case for nuclear is also becoming better understood, World Nuclear Association Director General Sama Bilbao y León told delegates at the
New Nuclear Capital 2020 virtual conference yesterday. The following is an abridged version of her presentation.
World Nuclear Association Director General Sama Bilbao y León If you compare the percentage of electricity generated with low-carbon energy sources that we had at the beginning of the century with what we have today it is more or less exactly the same - essentially about 36%. So, despite the enormous investment in renewable energy sources, it doesn’t seem that we have moved forward very much.