Nuclear Power for Sustainable Development : Current Status and Future Prospects
By A. Adamantiades, I. Kessides. 2009
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Interest in nuclear power has been revived as a result of volatile fossil fuel prices, concerns about the security of energy supplies, and global climate change. This paper describes the current status and future plans for expansion of nuclear power, the advances in nuclear reactor technology, and their impacts on the associated risks and performance of nuclear power. Advanced nuclear reactors have been designed to be simpler and safer, and to have lower costs than currently operating reactors. By addressing many of the public health and safety risks that plagued the industry since the accidents at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, these reactors may help break the current deadlock over nuclear power. In that case, nuclear power could make a significant contribution towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, significant issues persist, fueling reservations among the public and many decision makers. Nuclear safety, disposal of radioactive wastes, and proliferation of nuclear explosives need to be addressed in an effective and credible way if the necessary public support is to be obtained.
Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Materials Chemistry, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
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- CO2 emissions, nuclear energy, renewable energy and economic growth in the US (2010, background): “Fourthly, the US has developed a nuclear regulation and supervision system believed to be the most elaborate and demanding, which can set an example for the rest of the world to follow (Adamantiades and Kessides, 2009).”
- On the causal dynamics between emissions, nuclear energy, renewable energy, and economic growth ☆ (2010, background): “It is generally believed that unless dramatic actions are taken to reduce global warming, the world could face an environmental catastrophe (Stern, 2007; Adamantiades and Kessides, 2009; DeCanio, 2009; Reddy and Assenza, 2009).”