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For decades, foating nuclear power occupied a niche position in the energy debate – technically feasible, strategically intriguing, but commercially marginal. Today, however, combined pressures of decarbonization, energy security, land constraints, rising electricity demand and water scarcity are making foating nuclear power a more serious proposition for policymakers, utilities, and infrastructure

By Alisa Reiner, Master of

Environmental Management, Yale

University, Offshore Energy Markets

FLOATING NUCLEAR:

Analyst, Intelatus Global Partners

A New Offshore Energy Frontier

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