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Our global thought leadership has enabled a shift in thinking on climate change solutions and the difficult-to-decarbonize sectors of coal-for-power, industrial heat, and heavy transport. This curated list of publications includes articles and reports we've produced, contributed to, or see as offering a key perspective on accelerating the clean energy transition.

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Accelerating a Carbon-Free Future

Microsoft

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December 2023

Terra Praxis welcomes the leadership being demonstrated by Microsoft in recognizing the critical role of advanced nuclear in the clean energy transition. On “Energy Day” at COP28, Microsoft published a comprehensive new policy brief on the vital role of nuclear energy in meeting our clean energy goals. The REPOWER collaboration with Terra Praxis is cited as an example of how Microsoft is working with partners to leverage digital technology to support an inclusive decarbonized energy system.

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REPOWER
Terra Praxis

RISE3D Journal

NICE Future initiative

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December 2023

To accelerate the replacement of unabated coal plants with new, advanced nuclear technologies and to bring about breakthrough nuclear innovations, the Nuclear Innovation: Clean Energy Future initiative (NICE Future) launched a campaign to Research the Impacts on Social Equity and Economic Empowerment (RISE3). Terra Praxis is proud to have contributed to the second volume of the RISE3D journal! This journal provides expert resources alongside a blueprint for countries transitioning to a clean and just energy economy with nuclear innovation as a key pillar.

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REPOWER
Risks to the Energy Transition
Terra Praxis
Energy System Modeling
Nuclear Basics & Communications

Mass Acquisition of Early Site Permits for Coal-to-Nuclear Repowering

Breakthrough Institute

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November 2023

Terra Praxis both contributed to and is cited in this program which presents a strategic solution to catalyze but not to own the repowering of fossil fuel sites through regulatory innovation. By mitigating regulatory uncertainties and leveraging existing resources, the proposed program will propel the transition towards cleaner and sustainable energy sources, addressing the imminent challenges of energy transition and environmental preservation.

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Economics, Cost Drivers & Commercialization
REPOWER
Terra Praxis

REPOWER: Derisking and Accelerating the Energy Transition

atw

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November 2023

Mainstream energy transition models prioritize cost optimization and overlook critical factors related to the feasibility of building massive amounts of new clean energy infrastructure, including socio-political, cultural, commercial, and financial aspects. These omissions lead to greatly overstating the potential for deployment and create a dangerous gap between the decarbonization pathways proposed and the real world of project development. This, in turn, leads to ill-informed policy targets and inadequate implementation plans.

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REPOWER
Terra Praxis

RISKS TO THE ENERGY TRANSITION

Terra Praxis

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August 2023

This brief report, based on work done by the Terra Praxis team since 2018, summarizes analysis of the risks to the clean energy transition in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and Japan, and outlines the immediate risks that must be anticipated and mitigated to ensure progress toward a Net Zero future. It also sets out how, by diversifying the portfolio of emissions-free technologies, aligning targets with feasibility analysis, and implementing risk-informed strategies, we can mitigate the key risks and help drive a successful transition.

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REPOWER
Risks to the Energy Transition
Zero-Carbon Fuels
Terra Praxis

Practical limitations on renewables

Bela HANRATTY

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August 2023

In this article, Belá gives an insightful brief on the important issue of land constraints for clean technology rollout. He makes an emphasis on the fact that If not addressed, this constraint -among others- will put the clean energy transition at risk.

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Risks to the Energy Transition

Why coal-fired power plants should get nuclear-ready

Elsevier Ltd.

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June 2023

The need to decarbonize the energy sector will leave infrastructure and workers of retired coal-fired power plants behind. From an environmental point of view coal-fired power plants should neither be built nor operated. If these plants are built/operated though, they should be designed in a way that they can be swiftly transformed to provide low-carbon energy. They should be designed to be nuclear-ready.

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REPOWER

Climate Solution Profile: Repowering the Global Coal Fleet by 2050

Terra Praxis

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May 2023

The Terra Praxis ‘Repowering Coal’ system is a fast, low-cost repeatable strategy to repower hundreds of existing coal plants that would otherwise continue to burn coal, and whose closure is likely to encounter fierce political resistance and cause economic harm to communities. This initiative is designed for radical cost reduction to enable production of reliable, competitive, clean energy, rapidly repowering the 2TW global coal fleet and cutting carbon emissions by 40%.

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REPOWER
Terra Praxis
Risks to the Energy Transition

Laying the Foundation for New and Advanced Nuclear Reactors in the United States

National Academies

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May 2023

This new National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine report discusses how the US could support the successful commercialization of advanced nuclear reactors with near-term actions to establish policies and practices. Kirsty Gogan is a member of the Committee responsible for this report.

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Risks to the Energy Transition

The world wants nuclear

ClearPath, Potential Energy Coalition, Replanet, Third Way

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May 2023

In what is probably the most comprehensive recent multinational survey of public attitudes to nuclear energy, the authors find strong public support for advanced nuclear technologies and what they can bring. This report describes a rigorous and objective study, the perceptions and misperceptions people share, and the top ten findings, which collectively lead to the conclusion that “the world wants new nuclear.” Terra Praxis was on the study Advisory Committee.

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Nuclear Basics & Communications

Terra Praxis 2022 Annual Review

Terra Praxis

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March 2023

Widespread impacts from climate change are already here. Our actions in this critical decade will determine the full extent of future impacts on our children and grandchildren. In our 2022 Annual Review, you will see how, with our world-class sustainability partners, Terra Praxis is the only entity designing a scalable, rapid repowering system to decarbonize the entire global coal fleet by 2050. This is how we plan to eliminate one-third of global carbon emissions and provide a method for supplying affordable, reliable, and emissions-free energy to billions of people.

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Terra Praxis
REPOWER
Risks to the Energy Transition
Zero-Carbon Fuels

Can Advanced Nuclear Repower Coal Country?

Bipartisan Policy Center

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March 2023

With nearly a quarter of the U.S. coal-fired fleet scheduled to retire by 2029, replacing retiring coal power plants with advanced nuclear, specifically small modular reactors (SMR), has been put forth as a strategy to maintain local employment and economic opportunities for existing energy workers and communities, while simultaneously pursuing national climate goals.

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REPOWER

Repowering a Coal Power Plant Steam Cycle Using Modular Light-Water Reactor Technology

MDPI, Energies 2023, 16

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March 2023

This article presents the results of a techno-economic analysis of repowering a coal-fired power plant’s steam turbine system to instead accept heat produced by a pressurized water reactor-type small modular nuclear system (PWR SMR). This type of repowering presents a challenge due to the significantly lower steam pressure and temperature produced by the nuclear system.

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REPOWER

Climate Solution Profile: Missing Link to a Livable Climate (Brief)

Terra Praxis

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February 2023

In September 2020, Terra Praxis and LucidCatalyst published the Missing Link to a Livable Climate report. This brief contains its main findings, key messages, and interesting facts on how we can still meet the Paris Goals with proven, ready technology and with no major investments.

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Zero-Carbon Fuels
Terra Praxis

How small modular nuclear reactors can help decarbonize power grids

KPMG

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January 2023

US climate change not-for-profit Terra Praxis has proposed repowering 5,000 to 7,000 coal plants globally with SMRs between 2030 and 2050. Whether replacing coal in power plants or supplying industrial processes, SMR reactors have the potential to be installed in a packaged fashion based on standardized designs and processes. This should mean they can be deployed more quickly and with greater certainty over the like of outcomes, costs and regulatory approvals than nuclear power has to date.

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REPOWER
Small Modular Reactors
Terra Praxis

Growing the Grid: A Plan to Accelerate California’s Clean Energy Transition

EDF and Clean Air Task Force

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October 2022

Terra Praxis informs a report published by Clean Air Task Force & Environmental Defense Fund.

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Risks to the Energy Transition

Coal Repowering White Paper Series: Repowering Coal-Fired Power Plants for Advanced Nuclear Generation

Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

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October 2022

This white paper by EPRI sheds light on the benefits to repowering coal plants into clean energy generators. Repowering offers many advantages, including the potential to reuse existing site infrastructure, operating and environmental permits, equipment, facilities, and water usage for future clean power generation and energy storage facilities. It can also provide social and economic benefits to the surrounding community through retention of jobs and tax base.

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REPOWER

Nuclear-Hydrogen Digest: Nuclear Energy in the Hydrogen Economy

NICE Future initiative

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September 2022

The NICE Future initiative published a digest which showcases examples of leading nuclear produced hydrogen initiatives which can be used to power hard-to-electrify sectors such as transport and heavy industry. Eric Ingersoll and Kirsty Gogan were honoured to contribute both a Foreword and a chapter.

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Zero-Carbon Fuels
Terra Praxis

Small Modular Reactors: A new nuclear energy paradigm

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

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September 2022

Read this if you want to get a quick and realistic understanding of how SMRs could be a game-changer. This new report from the IAEA, available as a pre-print, is the secretariats' view on SMRs. It talks about three major areas (1) Understanding SMRs (2) What will it take to make SMRs a success and (3) What's next for SMRs. The last chapter provides a comprehensive list of IAEA activities to support the SMR deployment.

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Small Modular Reactors
REPOWER

Investigating Benefits and Challenges of Converting Retiring Coal Plants into Nuclear Plants: Nuclear Fuel Cycle and Supply Chain

US Department of Energy

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September 2022

This DOE study estimates potential savings for coal plant owners, and benefits for regions: “To replace a large coal plant, nuclear overnight costs of capital could decrease by 15%-35% when compared to greenfield construction, through the reuse of infrastructure. This aligns with Terra Praxis estimates: “Converting plants to run on AMRs will deliver capital cost saving of 28%-35% (compared with new nuclear plant) and 9%-28% reduction in levelized cost of energy.” (WNN, 2022a). This is also consistent with analysis based on Kairos Power SMR design (Bartela et al., 2021), and C2N#3 approach.

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REPOWER

Repowering a Coal Power Unit with Small Modular Reactors and Thermal Energy Storage

MDPI, Energies 2022, 15

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August 2022

Repowering coal plant infrastructure with clean heat sources such as nuclear and geothermal energy is crucial if we want to reach the Paris Goals of Net Zero by 2050. Luckily, several colleagues and organzations are now doing very through analysis to turn this into a reality. This article, written by our colleagues from QuantifiedCarbon (QCL) proposes and analyzes a solution that will enable the flexibility of electricity production of new nuclear energy while avoiding the stranding of existing fossil fuel assets and local job losses.

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REPOWER

Hawkeye State Headwinds: A Case Study of Local Opposition & Siting Challenges for Large Scale Wind Development In Iowa

ClearPath and LucidCatalyst

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July 2022

Terra Praxis informs a report published by LucidCatalyst & ClearPath. Terra Praxis colleagues John Herter and Ian Woodhouse conducted transmission and interconnection queue analysis for this report.

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Risks to the Energy Transition
Terra Praxis

Nuclear Power and Secure Energy Transitions: From Today's Challenges to Tomorrow's Clean Energy Systems

International Energy Agency (IEA)

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June 2022

This report examines how nuclear energy can help address the crises of energy and climate. The team acknowledges benefitting from Terra Praxis' work: “the replacement of coal-fired plants with SMRs, such as that of Terra Praxis which aims to prepare standardized and pre-licensed designs supported by automated project development and design tools.” “In today’s context, I believe nuclear power has a unique opportunity to stage a comeback,” said IEA's head Fatih Birol.

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REPOWER
Terra Praxis

Terra Praxis 2021 Annual Review

Terra Praxis

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April 2022

Climate change is an energy problem. We only have 28 years to replace fossil fuels and double our overall energy supply. Our programs could accelerate the reduction of global carbon emissions by repurposing trillions of dollars of existing infrastructure to supply clean, affordable, and reliable energy to billions of people. As you reflect on our 2021 Annual Review, we hope you will be as energized as we are by our success in mobilizing a broad coalition of public and private sector leaders and building momentum for innovative climate solutions.

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Terra Praxis
REPOWER
Zero-Carbon Fuels
Nature & Sustainability (UNSDG)

Nuclear Law: The Global Debate

International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

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January 2022

IAEA Director General and leading experts discuss current issues in nuclear energy in this new book by the IAEA. Our Missing Link report (Missing Link to a Livable Climate: How Hydrogen-Enabled Synthetic Fuels Can Help Deliver Paris Goals) is referenced and discussed in Chapter 6 "The Challenge of Climate Change—Complete Energy Transformation: No Nuclear, No Net Zero," by Tim Stone, and also in Chapter 13 "The Humanitarian Atom: The Role of Nuclear Power in Addressing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals," by Sama Bilbao y León and John Lindberg.

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Zero-Carbon Fuels
Nature & Sustainability (UNSDG)
Nuclear Basics & Communications