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Nuclear Energy- Economic Analysis and Environmental Impact
- 1st Edition - November 1, 2029
- Authors: Gustavo Alonso, Edmundo Del Valle
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 0 6 2 5 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 1 4 5 4 - 3
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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Request a sales quoteNuclear 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.
- Presents nuclear generation in the context of electricity needs, environmental benefits, potential hazards, public acceptance and energy policy
- Provides alternatives for integrated clean electricity systems
- Includes guidance on how to perform an economic and financial assessment for the deployment of nuclear plants across all regions
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
- No. of pages: 400
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 1, 2029
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Paperback ISBN: 9780323906258
- eBook ISBN: 9780323914543
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Gustavo Alonso
Dr. Alonso is currently a Professor and Deputy-Director at Technical University of Madrid, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering (ETSIAE/UPM). He lectures at graduate and post-graduate levels on various topics such as Air Transport Management and Aerospace Engineering. He is also involved in the organization and management of different courses and seminars and a visiting professor at several Universities.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Deputy-Director, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Technical University of Madrid, SpainED
Edmundo Del Valle
He was granted a Sc. D. in Physics, M.Sc. in Nuclear Engineering and B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) in Mexico. He is member of the Academy of Engineering of Mexico and the Mexican Academy of Sciences. His research interests are the development and application of nodal finite element methods to the nuclear reactor physics and engineering. Dr. del Valle is a senior professor and scientist at the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed journal papers, and has supervised over 25 graduate students.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Professor and Scientist, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Unidad Profesional Adolfo Lopez Mateos, Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico