The Future of Advanced Nuclear Technologies

The Future of Advanced Nuclear Technologies
Author: The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2014-05-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0309300894

The National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) Conference in 2013 focused on the Future of Advanced Nuclear Technologies to generate new ideas about how to move nuclear technology forward while making the world safer and more secure. Beyond the public's apprehension concerning the safety of nuclear power, which calls out for better communications strategies, several challenges lie ahead for the nuclear enterprise in the United States. The workforce in nuclear technology is aging, there is an overreliance on large, high-risk reactor designs, and the supply of radioisotopes for nuclear medicine remains unstable-all problems crying out for solutions. The Future of Advanced Nuclear Technologies summarizes the 14 Interdisciplinary Research (IDR) teams' collaborations on creative solutions to challenges designed to propel the policy, engineering, and social aspects of the nuclear enterprise forward.

Advanced Nuclear Technologies

Advanced Nuclear Technologies
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
Publisher:
Total Pages: 72
Release: 1999
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

Nuclear Power

Nuclear Power
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1992-02-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309043956

The construction of nuclear power plants in the United States is stopping, as regulators, reactor manufacturers, and operators sort out a host of technical and institutional problems. This volume summarizes the status of nuclear power, analyzes the obstacles to resumption of construction of nuclear plants, and describes and evaluates the technological alternatives for safer, more economical reactors. Topics covered include: Institutional issues-including regulatory practices at the federal and state levels, the growing trends toward greater competition in the generation of electricity, and nuclear and nonnuclear generation options. Critical evaluation of advanced reactors-covering attributes such as cost, construction time, safety, development status, and fuel cycles. Finally, three alternative federal research and development programs are presented.

The Status of Advanced Nuclear Technologies

The Status of Advanced Nuclear Technologies
Author: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources United States Senate
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2017-05-06
Genre:
ISBN: 9781546507680

Nuclear energy has provided nearly 20 percent of electrical generation in the United States over the past two decades and currently produces 60 percent of America's carbon free-electricity, but the 99 reactors licensed to operate today in the United States will not last forever. The lack of a comprehensive set of solutions has hampered both commercial nuclear development as well as defense waste cleanup efforts. If nuclear power is to have a future, the U.S. must pursue research, development and deployment of next generation nuclear technologies, including small modular reactors, micro-reactors, Generation IV reactors and future fusion reactors. New designs must be safer, cheaper and efficient, and proliferation resistant. The opportunity for innovation in nuclear technologies has not been this great since the 1960's. Despite the many difficult challenges associated with full deployment, technical, financial, bureaucratic and license-related, there is unprecedented interest from both the public and private sectors.

The Future of Nuclear Energy

The Future of Nuclear Energy
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology (2011). Subcommittee on Energy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2015
Genre: Nuclear energy
ISBN:

Back to the Future

Back to the Future
Author: Josh Freed
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Total Pages: 27
Release: 2014-12-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 081572666X

The Golden Age of nuclear energy in the United States has passed, and the accidents, if not disasters, at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima have damaged nuclear power’s rise in some parts of the world. And yet today, as Third Way’s Josh Freed illuminates in the latest Brookings Essay, a flood of young engineers are exploring safer and cleaner nuclear energy technologies as the best option for powering the world and addressing the looming threat of climate change. Yet as Freed demonstrates, advanced nuclear energy is too big, complex, and expensive to take off without significant political backing and changes in how the government supports innovation. If the U.S. doesn’t invest in advanced nuclear, he argues, it’s inevitable that another country will lead the way in this game-changing field. THE BROOKINGS ESSAY: In the spirit of its commitment to high-quality, independent research, the Brookings Institution has commissioned works on major topics of public policy by distinguished authors, including Brookings scholars. The Brookings Essay is a multi-platform product aimed to engage readers in open dialogue and debate. The views expressed, however, are solely those of the author. Available in ebook only.

A First Wave Case Series: RISE 3D

A First Wave Case Series: RISE 3D
Author:
Publisher: Nuclear Innovation: Clean Energy Future Initiative
Total Pages: 21
Release: 2022-09-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN:

The Clean Energy Minsterial's CEM "Nuclear Innovation: Clean Energy Future" (NICE Future) initiative envisions a world in which nuclear energy innovation and uses advance clean energy goals. The NICE Future initiative recognizes that there is no one-size-fits-all solution to energy and fosters collaboration among clean energy supporters in exploring diverse solutions, including nuclear energy technology solutions, for clean and integrated systems of the future. Under NICE Future initiative, Research Impacts on Social Equity and Economic Empowerment (RISE3) campaign is building a first-ever partnership amongst governments and the nuclear energy, renewables, nonprofit and academic communities to accelerate the adoption of environmentally just clean energy solutions. Leveraging the insights and expertise of more than thirty participant countries and partner organizations, RISE3 aims to highlight breakthrough solutions that can accelerate movement toward net-zero. RISE3 convenes expert resources, supporting analyses to inform investment decisions and creating a blueprint for countries transitioning to a clean and just energy economy with nuclear innovation as a key pillar. The RISE3D case series e-publication has been developed from submissions by participating countries and partner organizations, demonstrating how advanced and innovative nuclear energy technologies, such as small modular reactors, will support the clean energy transition in a variety of community contexts.

The Power of Change

The Power of Change
Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2016-09-30
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309371422

Electricity, supplied reliably and affordably, is foundational to the U.S. economy and is utterly indispensable to modern society. However, emissions resulting from many forms of electricity generation create environmental risks that could have significant negative economic, security, and human health consequences. Large-scale installation of cleaner power generation has been generally hampered because greener technologies are more expensive than the technologies that currently produce most of our power. Rather than trade affordability and reliability for low emissions, is there a way to balance all three? The Power of Change: Innovation for Development and Deployment of Increasingly Clean Energy Technologies considers how to speed up innovations that would dramatically improve the performance and lower the cost of currently available technologies while also developing new advanced cleaner energy technologies. According to this report, there is an opportunity for the United States to continue to lead in the pursuit of increasingly clean, more efficient electricity through innovation in advanced technologies. The Power of Change: Innovation for Development and Deployment of Increasingly Clean Energy Technologies makes the case that America's advantagesâ€"world-class universities and national laboratories, a vibrant private sector, and innovative states, cities, and regions that are free to experiment with a variety of public policy approachesâ€"position the United States to create and lead a new clean energy revolution. This study focuses on five paths to accelerate the market adoption of increasing clean energy and efficiency technologies: (1) expanding the portfolio of cleaner energy technology options; (2) leveraging the advantages of energy efficiency; (3) facilitating the development of increasing clean technologies, including renewables, nuclear, and cleaner fossil; (4) improving the existing technologies, systems, and infrastructure; and (5) leveling the playing field for cleaner energy technologies. The Power of Change: Innovation for Development and Deployment of Increasingly Clean Energy Technologies is a call for leadership to transform the United States energy sector in order to both mitigate the risks of greenhouse gas and other pollutants and to spur future economic growth. This study's focus on science, technology, and economic policy makes it a valuable resource to guide support that produces innovation to meet energy challenges now and for the future.

Contesting The Future Of Nuclear Power: A Critical Global Assessment Of Atomic Energy

Contesting The Future Of Nuclear Power: A Critical Global Assessment Of Atomic Energy
Author: Benjamin K Sovacool
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2011-05-05
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9813107979

This book provides a concise but rigorous appraisal about the future of nuclear power and the presumed nuclear renaissance. It does so by assessing the technical, economic, environmental, political, and social risks related to all aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle, from uranium mills and mines to nuclear reactors and spent fuel storage facilities. In each case, the book argues that the costs of nuclear power significantly outweigh its benefits. It concludes by calling for investments in renewable energy and energy efficiency as a better path towards an affordable, secure, and socially acceptable future.The prospect of a global nuclear renaissance could change the way that energy is produced and used the world over. Sovacool takes a hard look at who would benefit — mostly energy companies and manufacturers — and who would suffer — mostly taxpayers, those living near nuclear facilities, and electricity customers. This book is a must-read for anyone even remotely concerned about a sustainable energy future, and also for those with a specific interest in modern nuclear power plants.