{"id":5554,"date":"2021-09-10T12:00:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thegabi.com\/?p=5554"},"modified":"2021-10-18T12:55:46","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T16:55:46","slug":"does-nuclear-have-a-role-in-a-decarbonized-energy-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegabi.com\/?p=5554","title":{"rendered":"Does Nuclear Have a Role in a Decarbonized Energy Mix?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global CO2 emissions are not abating any time soon. Since the Kyoto Protocol at 1997, global emissions have<br \/>\nonly risen. Significant emissions reductions need to be made to reach the global climate goals. This<br \/>\nfundamental issue has brought nuclear back into the perspective of a clean energy mix. As renewables scale<br \/>\nup around the world, there are significant obstacles from the footprint of the renewable energy projects.<br \/>\nSolar farm projects and wind farm projects take up a significant amount of land space, as opposed to nuclear<br \/>\nwhich has an extremely small footprint. In the past, nuclear has been the fastest path to non-carbon<br \/>\nelectricity. In the case of France, around 1980, heavy investment into nuclear projects significantly reduced<br \/>\nthe amount of fossil sources and carbon emissions. The energy transition France underwent took<br \/>\napproximately 15 years, which suggests that a similar energy transition now globally could affect a similar<br \/>\noutcome for global emissions reductions. In order to be relevant to climate, the current rate of building 10s<br \/>\nof GW of nuclear per year must be increased to building 100s of GWs of nuclear per year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global CO2 emissions are not abating any time soon. Since the Kyoto Protocol at 1997, global emissions have only risen. Significant emissions reductions need to be made to reach the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[75,52,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-nuclear-energy","category-nuclear-energy-workshops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegabi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegabi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegabi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegabi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegabi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thegabi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5556,"href":"https:\/\/thegabi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5554\/revisions\/5556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegabi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegabi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegabi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegabi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}