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Nuclear Energy- Economic Analysis and Environmental Impact guides the reader through all elements required to make an informed decision on new nuclear power plants and provides… Read more
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Nuclear Energy- Economic Analysis and Environmental Impact guides the reader through all elements required to make an informed decision on new nuclear power plants and provides analysis of the environmental benefits in comparison to other renewable energy sources. The book covers the economic factors, environmental benefits, and policy issues of nuclear power generation to improve public perception and increase the deployment of nuclear in the energy mix. Readers are provided with an essential toolkit to assess nuclear projects which enables them to perform a levelized cost analysis of power generation and compare different renewable generation technologies.
Sections cover the historical deployment of nuclear power and its corresponding costs, compare fission technologies to other advanced systems, address the main concepts of economic and financial analyses, power plant structure components, and principles of Monte Carlo methods for uncertainty analysis, and delve into how various elements of the electricity grid interact. In addition, other renewable electricity sources alongside their advantages, disadvantages, and foreseeable capacities are presented.
Postgraduate on programs in nuclear engineering or energy; undergraduates of nuclear energy; researchers at institutes and in industry; those responsible for energy planning and emission reduction; those carrying out economic and environmental analysis for the deployment of nuclear power
1. Introduction
1.1 Thermal fission reactors
1.2 Fast fission reactors
1.3 Small modular reactors
1.4 Modern fast fission reactors
1.5 Reactors under development for future deployment
2. Nuclear Power Plants
2.1 History of nuclear power
2.2 Generation I
2.3 Generation II
2.4 Generation III
2.5 Generation IV
2.6 Comparison among generations
3. Economic and Finance Concepts
3.1 Energy levelized cost analysis
3.2 Economic analysis
3.3 Finance analysis
3.4 Capital construction cost
3.5 Supply chain
3.6 Procurement framework
4. Elements for Power Plant Deployment
4.1 Power plant components
4.2 Lead time and financing cost
4.3 Operational flexibility conditions
4.4 Externalities
4.5 Socio-economic impacts
4.6 Licensing
5. Risk analysis
5.1 Monte Carlo methodology
5.2 Uniform distributions
5.3 Normal distribution
5.4 Discount rate
5.5 Net present value
5.6 Cost-Benefit
6. Electricity Systems
6.1 Electricity Sources Portfolio
6.2 Regulated and unregulated markets
6.2.1 Energy production and selling policy
6.3 Grid operation conditions
6.3.1 Firm capacity
6.3.2 Variable capacity
6.3.3 Backup capacity
6.4 Energy Security
7. Renewable Electricity Sources
7.1 Wind Power
7.2 Photovoltaic
7.3 Hydro
7.4 Geothermal
8. Challenges in Clean Sources Integration
8.1 Intermittence
8.2 Energy storage
8.3 Nuclear flexibility
8.4 Operational time response
8.5 Hybrid energy systems
9. Environmental Consequences
9.1 Nuclear
9.2 Wind Power
9.3 Photo Voltaic Power
9.4 Hydro
9.5 Geothermal
9.6 Economics of full cycle of energy technology
10.1 Reactor decommissioning
10.2 Waste management
10.3 Perception
10.3.1 Real risk
10.3.2 Perceived risk
10.4 Trust and credibility
10.5 Media
10.6 Acceptance programs
10.6.1 Cases of study
10.6.1.1 France
10.6.1.2 Japan
10.6.1.3 Korea
10.7 Energy Policy
10.7.1 Cases of study
10.7.1.1 USA
10.7.1.2 China
10.7.1.3 Europe
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