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IEA report describes nuclear growth and need for grid flexibility
The Paris-based International Energy Agency released its annual report on global electricity systems and markets on February 6, showing the output of nuclear energy at record levels in 2025. According to Electricity 2026, nuclear energy together with renewable energy sources (mainly solar) will generate about half of all global electricity by 2030, up from 42 percent today.
13th Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control & Human-Machine Interface Technologies (NPIC&HMIT 2023)
Dr. Garrett earned his PhD in Nuclear Engineering at MIT in 1998, specializing in Probabilistic Risk Assessment, then went on to Rocketdyne in southern CA, where he worked as a System Engineer in various capacities on every large liquid rocket engine developed by the company in the last 20+ years (X-33, RS-68, RS-83, RS-84, J-2X, & RS-25). Now as a member of the Space Nuclear Propulsion team at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, his career has come full circle, helping to develop requirements for a nuclear thermal rocket intended to serve as prototype for a Mars transportation engine
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