The Current State of Nuclear Electrical Power in the United States_Crimson Publishers

Although nuclear energy currently provides about 20% of U.S. electric power and over half of the nation’s carbon free electricity, the ability of U.S. nuclear power plants to meet increasing demands for electricity and sustain the U.S. life style or even maintain the present one-fifth of US electrical demand is problematic and doubtful. A Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) report finds that over one-third of the current fleet of 98 licensed nuclear power plants in the United States (65 PWRs and 33 BWRs) will or could be closed within the next decade. Sixty-six of these plants will not be profitable for continued operation by their plant owners. These closures may occur even before expiration of the plants U.S. Government issued NRC License.

Meanwhile, the U.S. and world demand for base-load electrical power will continue to escalate. Google now consumes more electrical power than San Francisco, and the advent of electrification of the U.S. vehicular fleet will impose even greater demands upon the U.S. electrical power sector. The average Chinese resident now consumes 3 kW(e) [kiloWatt(electric)] while a U.S. resident uses about 10 kW(e) on a 24hr/7day basis while an African use only 0.5 kW(e). Finally, over 1 billion people on the planet are without any electricity today. These electrical power consumption rates will greatly increase in the future, principally sustained by the further use of coal and natural gas as the primary energy source. Globally, this increase will result in massive increases in greenhouse gases and exacerbate globally warming. There is no scientific doubt that this unmitigated human action is threatening the earth’s biosphere, resulting in marked increase in glacial water loss, raising ocean levels that threatening coastal populations, severe weather disruptions, increase incidence of hurricanes, wild fires, and widespread flooding. This uncontained biological stress of the planet’s sensitive ecosystem is absolute and growing.

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