Nuclear power plants can provide large amounts of low-carbon energy. However, their construction and fuel do generate a lot of carbon dioxide. And the disposal of spent fuel and decommissioning of nuclear power plants also produce carbon dioxide. The levelized cost of nuclear power is greater than hydro, wind or solar power.
TAE Technologies developed the Norman reactor in 2017 to maintain plasma at fifty-four million degrees Fahrenheit. The machine has demonstrated that it is able to stabilize a plasma at over one hundred and thirty-five million degrees Fahrenheit. This is more than two hundred and fifty percent greater than its initial aim after five years of steady improvement.