I2M’s Chief Geologist Presents the 2021 Annual Report to EMD Zoom Conference
Michael D. Campbell, P.G., P.H., I2M’s Chief Geologist, and Chairman of the AAPG’s Energy Minerals Division’s Uranium (Nuclear & Rare Earth) Committee presented the summary annual report during the EMD Zoom Conference on June 10, 2021 (here). The full report will be listed on the EMD UCOM website soon (here). He emphasized that the new SMR designs are gaining traction in new nuclear power construction in the US ( such as in Idaho and Wyoming) and in the UK, China, etc. (more).
NuScale personnel produced a report in early 2021 to extoll the virtues of their new technology. They indicated that over the past century, the power generator fleet in the U.S. has gone through many changes. New technologies, state and federal environmental regulations, and changing operating costs have all contributed to an increasingly diverse energy generation landscape. The early industrial successes of the world are credited to the affordability and abundance of electricity, particularly from coal-fired power plants. Historically, large-scale coal power plants in the U.S. offered a cost-effective power solution that satisfied growing energy demand, due to the wide availability of coal as fuel and the relative ease to which it could be delivered to a plant site.
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), over the last decade, the United States has led the world with […]