The U.S. just set new deployment targets at the U.N. climate summit (COP29) in Baku, Azerbaijan: Add 35 GW of new capacity by 2035 and achieve a sustained pace of 15 GW per year by 2040. The framework identifies more than 30 actions the U.S. government can take, along with industry and power customers, to help expand domestic capacity. The new targets are detailed in the White House’s “Safely and Responsibly Expanding U.S. Nuclear Energy: Deployment Targets and a Framework for Action.”
According to the framework, “This new era of nuclear energy deployments must feature greater standardization, along with the integration of modern design, project management, and construction techniques and a wealth of lessons learned from past deployments. To achieve these ambitious deployment targets, this framework outlines an expansive set of actions to accelerate and expand domestic nuclear energy deployment.”
Read more here: U.S. Government Unveils New Nuclear Deployment Targets | American Public Power Association