{"id":9489,"date":"2025-12-19T19:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T19:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kernd.de\/?p=9489"},"modified":"2025-12-19T20:05:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T20:05:26","slug":"revival-of-the-closed-loopnuclear-power-system-a-roadmap-for-a-net-zero-grid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kernd.de\/de\/revival-of-the-closed-loopnuclear-power-system-a-roadmap-for-a-net-zero-grid\/","title":{"rendered":"Revival of the Closed-Loop Nuclear power system \u2013A Roadmap for a net-zero grid"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"9489\" class=\"elementor elementor-9489\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4cfbbdb elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4cfbbdb\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-960bcb7\" data-id=\"960bcb7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-24cbade elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"24cbade\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Europe faces a dual energy challenge: meeting a projected rise in electricity demand \u2013 from ~3,000 TWh today to ~6,800 TWh by 2050 \u2013 while managing over 60,000 tonnes of spent nuclear fuel, currently an untapped energy reserve. This roadmap outlines a coordinated effort across Europe, Japan, the USA, and South Korea to close the nuclear fuel cycle using fast breeder reactors (FBRs), unlocking the energy value of spent fuel while drastically reducing radio\u0002active waste. The goal is to achieve 50% of Europe\u2019s electricity from FBRs by 2075, eliminate existing spent fuel stockpiles, and establish nuclear energy as a self-sustaining, dispatchable, and low-carbon back\u0002bone of the continent\u2019s power system. No existing or new spent fuel shall be placed in repositories.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/kernd.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Article_atw_2025-5_Revival_of_the_Closed-Loop_Nuclear_power_system%E2%80%93A-Roadmap_for_a_net-zero_grid_Erlend_Hagen.pdf\">Revival of the Closed-Loop Nuclear power system \u2013 A Roadmap for a net-zero grid, Erlend Hagen<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kernd.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Article_atw_2025-5_Revival_of_the_Closed-Loop_Nuclear_power_system\u2013A-Roadmap_for_a_net-zero_grid_Erlend_Hagen.pdf\"><\/a><\/p><p><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe faces a dual energy challenge: meeting a projected rise in electricity demand \u2013 from ~3,000 TWh today to ~6,800 TWh by 2050 \u2013 while managing over 60,000 tonnes of spent nuclear fuel, currently an untapped energy reserve. This roadmap outlines a coordinated effort across Europe, Japan, the USA, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-veroeffentlichungen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kernd.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kernd.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kernd.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kernd.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kernd.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9489"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/kernd.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9498,"href":"https:\/\/kernd.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9489\/revisions\/9498"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kernd.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kernd.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kernd.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kernd.de\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}