Small Modular Reactors as Renewable Energy Sources

✍ Scribed by Bahman Zohuri

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 306
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book highlights Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) as a viable alternative to the Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs), which have been used as desalination plant energy sources. SMRs have lower investment costs, inherent safety features, and increased availability compared to NPPs. The unique and innovative approach to implementation of SMRs as part of Gen-IV technology outlined in this book contributes to the application of nuclear power as a supplementary source to renewable energy.

• Discusses Gen-IV Power plants, their efficiency, cost effectiveness, safety, and methods to supply renewable energy;
  
• Presents Small Modular Reactors as a viable alternative to Nuclear Power Plants;
  
• Describes the benefits, uses, safety features, and challenges related to implementation of Small Modular Reactors.
  

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xviii
Introduction to the Nuclear Power Industry (Bahman Zohuri)....Pages 1-61
Nuclear Power Structure from Past to Present (Bahman Zohuri)....Pages 63-94
Nuclear Energy Research and Development Roadmap (Bahman Zohuri)....Pages 95-116
A Combined Cycle Power Conversion System for Small Modular Reactor (Bahman Zohuri)....Pages 117-186
Small Modular Reactors, the Next Big Renewable Energy Source (Bahman Zohuri)....Pages 187-210
Safety and Nonproliferation Aspect of GEN-IV Reactors (Bahman Zohuri)....Pages 211-227
Electricity Production and Renewable Source of Energy, Economics (Bahman Zohuri)....Pages 229-245
Energy Storage Technologies and Their Role in Renewable Integration (Bahman Zohuri)....Pages 247-290
Back Matter ....Pages 291-293

✦ Subjects

Energy; Renewable and Green Energy; Nuclear Engineering; Energy Materials