When both Diablo Canyon units are fully operational, the 2200 MW nuclear power plant will benefit the California economy through helping to stabilize future electricity prices in an inflationary period and to assure adequate electric power supplies for Northern and Central California during the 1980s....
This paper addresses three questions concerning the economics of and prospects for nuclear power in the USA: (1) What is the long-term economic future of nuclear energy? (2) Is the inability to resolve the nuclear waste issue a factor that will limit new nuclear plant development? (3) Are...
The United States has the highest per capita energy consumption in the world (World Bank, 2012) and produces more electricity that any country outside of China (CIA, 2014). The United States is also the wealthiest country in the world with a powerful and competent central government. However,...
Nuclear powerPower generationPublic opinionPublic relationsThe development of the nuclear power industry in Japan and the USA is discussed. The author lists the number of nuclear power plants operating, under construction and planned and considers the contribution made by nuclear power stations to the ...
Nuclear energy is an important part of the US energy portfolio, and it could play an even larger role in a clean energy future. Arguably, no form of energy is cleaner, safer or more reliable than nuclear power. Promising "third generation" technologies are also under development that could ...
A second follow-up of 9,000 workers at the Calvert Cliffs Nuclear Power Plant (MD, USA) identified 346 deaths in the years 1969-88, 101 of which were attributed to malignant neoplasms. The original study had the primary purpose of assessing the feasibility of studies of workers based upon ...
(PM2.5). Our scenario of removing nuclear power results in compensation by coal, gas and oil, resulting in increases in PM2.5and ozone that lead to an extra 5,200 annual mortalities. Changes in CO2emissions lead to an order of magnitude higher mortalities throughout the twenty-first century,...
Any electric generating plant that uses steam to drive turbines must have a cooling system to condense the steam back into water. The cooling system necessarily exhausts heat into a water system or into the air. In this regard, anuclear power plantis no different from a coal-burning plant: ...
Prof. Bal Raj Sehgal - Nuclear Power Safety, Royal Institute of Technology, Alba Nova University Center, 10691 Stockholm (Sweden), Tel. + 46-8-5537-8820 · Mr. Jean-Pierre Van Dorsselaere - Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), Cadarache, BP3, 13115, St-Paul-le...
Finally, it analyzes three alternative federal research and development programs in light of their ability to support the most promising approaches. 展开 关键词: energy planning, policy and economy specific nuclear reactors and associated plants nuclear industry usa cost nuclear power nuclear power ...