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New Ways and Needs for Exploiting Nuclear Energy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019)
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New Ways and Needs for Exploiting Nuclear Energy (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2019)
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The history of mankind is a story of ascent to unprecedented levels
of comfort, productivity and consumption, enabled by the increased
mastery of the basic reserves and flows of energy. This miraculous
trajectory is confronted by the consensus that anthropogenic
emissions are harmful and must decrease, requiring de-carbonization
of the energy system. The mature field of indicator-based
sustainability assessment provides a rigorous systematic framework
to balance the pros and cons of the various existing energy
technologies using lifecycle assessments and weighting criteria
covering the environment, economy, and society, as the three
pillars of sustainability. In such a framework, nuclear power is
ranked favorably, but since emphasis is often placed on radioactive
wastes and risk aversion, renewables are usually ranked top.
However, quantifying the severity of the consequences of nuclear
accidents on a rough integral cost basis and balancing severity
with low core-damage accident probabilities indicates that the
average external cost of such accidents is similar to that of
modern renewables, and far less than carbon-based energy. This book
formulates the overall goal and associated unprecedented demanding
criteria of taming nuclear risks by excluding mechanisms that lead
to serious accidents and avoiding extremely long stewardship times
as far as possible, by design. It reviews the key design features
of nuclear power generation, paving the way for the exploration of
radically new combinations of technologies to come up with
"revolutionary" or even "exotic" system designs. The book also
provides scores for the selected designs and discusses the high
potential for far-reaching improvements, with small modular lines
of the best versions as being most attractive. Given the ambition
and challenges, the authors call for an urgent increase in funding
of at least two orders of magnitude for a broad international
civilian "super-Apollo" program on nuclear energy systems.
Experience indicates that such investments in fundamental
technologies enable otherwise unattainable revolutionary
innovations with massive beneficial spillovers to the private
sector and the public for the next generations.
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