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NUCLEAR POWER

Climate disruptions are already here

Nature Energy volume 6, pages 696–697 (2021)Cite this article

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Climate change impacts the production of electricity including power generated from nuclear facilities. New research published in Nature Energy reports an increase in climate-related outages over the past few decades and projects the annual energy loss for the global fleet of nuclear generators decades into the future.

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Larsen, P.H. Climate disruptions are already here. Nat Energy 6, 696–697 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-021-00864-z

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