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  title info:
    title: New Ways and Needs for Exploiting Nuclear Energy
  name:
    name part: Sornette, Didier.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: Kröger, Wolfgang.
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: Wheatley, Spencer.
    role:
      role term: author.
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      role term: aut
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  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 276 p. 90 illus., 77 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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. Exp…
  table of contents: Strategic Aspects of Energy -- Basics of Civilian Nuclear Fission -- Governance: Organizations and Management Issues -- Risk in Nuclear Power Operation -- Severe Accidents: Singularity of Nuclear Disasters? -- Candidate Features and Technology Options -- Potentials and Vision for the Future of Nuclear Energy.
  note: by Didier Sornette, Wolfgang Kröger, Spencer Wheatley.
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear energy
  subject:
    topic: Quality control
  subject:
    topic: Reliability
  subject:
    topic: Industrial safety
  subject:
    topic: Energy policy
  subject:
    topic: Energy and state
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Energy security
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear Energy
  subject:
    topic: Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk
  subject:
    topic: Energy Policy, Economics and Management
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change
  subject:
    topic: Energy Security
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear Energy
  classification: TK9001-9401
  classification: 333.7924
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319976525
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97652-5
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    record creation date: 180929
    record change date: 20191220125831.0
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