The Nuclear Industry’s Race Against the Clock: EPRI Experts on Fleet Optimization, SMRs, and What’s Next
Key Takeaway
The rapid increase in demand from data centers and electrification is creating an urgent need for firm, carbon-free power, making nuclear a critical but challenging solution due to deployment speed concerns.
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- •Unprecedented load growth driven by data centers, AI, industrial reshoring, and broader electrification is creating a critical demand for firm, carbon-free power.
- •Nuclear power, including SMRs and optimized existing fleets, is identified as a key solution to meet this surging demand due to its firm and carbon-free attributes.
- •The central challenge for the nuclear industry is whether it can scale and deploy new capacity fast enough to keep pace with the accelerating demand.
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The electricity sector faces a timing problem that’s becoming impossible to ignore. Data centers, artificial intelligence (AI) deployment, industrial reshoring, and broader electrification are driving load growth at rates not seen in decades—and much of that new demand wants carbon-free, firm power. Nuclear checks those boxes. But can the industry deliver capacity fast enough? POWER […] The post The Nuclear Industry’s Race Against the Clock: EPRI Experts on Fleet Optimization, SMRs, and What’s Next appeared first on POWER Magazine .