Nuclear Power: Past, present and future

✍ Scribed by David Elliott

Publisher: IOP Publishing
Year: 2022
Tongue: English
Leaves: 127
Edition: 2
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This research and reference text assesses the viability of nuclear power within the context of renewable energy and the challenges of climate change. This thoroughly updated second edition contains extensive new content on the prospects of nuclear power and progress made in the 2020s. It is an invaluable resource for researchers and postgraduate students in areas of nuclear power and nuclear energy. 

✦ Table of Contents

PRELIMS.pdf
Author biography
David Elliott
Bias
Outline placeholder
Guide to technical terms and units
A quick guide to key atoms…
Figure Acknowledgements
Personal Acknowledgements
CH001.pdf
Chapter 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?
References
CH002.pdf
Chapter 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
References
CH003.pdf
Chapter 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
References
CH004.pdf
Chapter 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
References
CH005.pdf
Chapter 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?
References
CH006.pdf
Chapter 6 Conclusions: the way ahead
6.1 The issues ahead
6.2 Choices ahead
6.3 An end to nuclear?
6.3.1 Afterword: insider views
References
APP1.pdf
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Reference
APP2.pdf
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