Concerns about climate change are increasingly influencing global energy policies in the direction of displacing fossil fuels and promoting low-carbon energy sources. Although the primary focus in many countries has been on renewable energy (e.g., solar and wind), the merits of nuclear power for large-scale carbon-free power generation are widely recognized by communities of distinguished climate and energy scientists. Plans to restart nuclear power reactors in Japan and the ongoing construction of more than 70 advanced light water reactors (LWRs) throughout the world, together with the recent start of operation of 2 commercial-scale fast neutron reactors in Russia and India, demonstrate the sustained resurgence of nuclear power and open the way for a sizable contribution to mitigating climate change.
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