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Alongside renewables, nuclear power is often promoted as a viable energy option for major expansion in the future. However, it faces significant problems. Taking a critical approach towards the ongoing viability of nuclear energy solutions, this research and reference text contextualises the vices a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Elliott, David, 1943- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2022]
Edición:Second edition.
Colección:IOP (Series). Release 22.
IOP ebooks. 2022 collection.
Temas:
Nuclear energy.
Nuclear power & engineering.
Environment and energy.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction : the nuclear vision
  • 1.1. Nuclear energy : uranium in a bucket
  • 1.2. Atoms for peace
  • 1.3. The rise and fall of nuclear power
  • 1.4. On to generation IV?
  • 2. Nuclear innovation : the early days
  • 2.1. Early US experiments
  • 2.2. Thorium reactors and fast breeders
  • 2.3. What next?
  • 2.4. Design parameters, choices, and constraints
  • 3. New brooms-in the 2000s
  • 3.1. Back to breeders--and thorium
  • 3.2. Small is beautiful--SMRs
  • 3.3. Reactor choices and prospects
  • 4. Progress in the 2020s
  • 4.1. SMRs move ahead tentatively
  • 4.2. ANT--a wider range
  • 4.3. Fusion expectations
  • 4.4. The prospects for advanced nuclear power
  • 5. Nuclear power revisited
  • 5.1. A review of the prospects for new nuclear technologies
  • 5.2. Carbon intensity, materials, and land use
  • 5.3. Nuclear and renewables
  • 5.4. What long-term future for nuclear power?
  • 6. Conclusions : the way ahead
  • 6.1. The issues ahead
  • 6.2. Choices ahead
  • 6.3. An end to nuclear?
  • Appendix 1. Public opposition to nuclear power
  • Appendix 2. Nuclear and renewables--the basics compared.

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