Sapphire 2025 is a collaborative initiative amongst authorities, {industry}, and academia to develop and exhibit superior nuclear vitality applied sciences by 2025. The purpose of Sapphire 2025 is to scale back the price of nuclear vitality and make it extra aggressive with different vitality sources.
Sapphire 2025 is essential as a result of it has the potential to make nuclear vitality a extra reasonably priced and dependable supply of electrical energy. Nuclear vitality is a clear and environment friendly supply of vitality, and it doesn’t produce greenhouse gases. Nonetheless, nuclear vitality has historically been dearer than different vitality sources. Sapphire 2025 goals to alter that by creating new applied sciences that can scale back the price of nuclear vitality.