Sustainable Nuclear Power

1st Edition - December 8, 2006

Authors: Galen J. Suppes, Truman Storvick

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Sustainable Nuclear Power provides non-nuclear engineers, scientists and energy planners with the necessary information to understand and utilize the major advances in the field. The book demonstrates that nuclear fission technology has the abundance and attainability to provide centuries of safe power with minimal greenhouse gas generation. It also addresses the safety and disposal issues that have plagued the development of the nuclear power industry and scared planners and policy makers as well as the general public for more than two decades.

List of Figures
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
- Publisher Summary
- Energy in Today’s World
- Energy on Planet Earth
- What Are the Right Questions?
- Sustainable Nuclear Power
Chapter 2: The History of Energy
- Publisher Summary
- Energy
- Nature’s Methods of Storing Energy
- Man’s Interaction with Nature’s Stockpiles and Renewable Energies
- The Industrial Revolution and Establishment of Energy Empires
- Environmental Impact
- Environmentally Responsible Nuclear Power
Chapter 3: Energy Reserves and Renewable Energy Sources
- Publisher Summary
- Fossil Fuel Reserves
- Cosmic History of Fossil Energy Reserves
- Nuclear Energy
- Recent Solar Energy
- Ethanol and Biodiesel from Agricultural Commodities
- Emergence of Nuclear Power
Chapter 4: Emerging Fuel Technologies and Policies Impacting These Technologies
- Publisher Summary
- Politics of Change in the Energy Industry
- Technology Emerging to What End?
- Cost of Feedstock Resources
- Case Study on Investment Decisions and Policy Impacts
- Taxes and Social Cost
- Corporate Lobbying Retrospect
- Diversity as a Means to Produce Market Stability
- The Details Are Important
- Environmental Retrospect
- Efficiency and Breakthrough Technology
- Farm Commodities and Land Utilization
- Global Warming
- Diversity and the Role of Nuclear Power
Chapter 5: History of Conversion of Thermal Energy to Work
- Publisher Summary
- Use of Thermal Energy
- The Concept of Work
- Early Engine Designs
- Turbine-Based Engines
- Fuel Cells
Chapter 6: Transportation
- Publisher Summary
- Transportation Before Petroleum Fuels
- Petroleum Fuels: Their Evolution, Specification, and Processing
- Alternative Fuels
- Vehicular Fuel Conservation and Efficiency
Chapter 7: Production of Electricity
- Publisher Summary
- History of Production
- Production of Electrical Power
Chapter 8: Energy in Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning
- Publisher Summary
- The Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning Industry
- Air Conditioning
- Heating
- Peak Load Shifting and Storing Heat
- The Role of Electrical Power in HVAC to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Example Calculations
Chapter 9: Electrical Power as Sustainable Energy
- Publisher Summary
- Sustainability and Electrical Power
- Expanded Use of Electrical Power
- Increased Use of Electrical Power in Transportation
- Increased Use of Electrical Power in Space Heating
- Increased Use of Electrical Power for Hot Water Heating
- Topics of National Attention
- Example Calculations
- Recommended Reading
Chapter 10: Atomic Processes
- Publisher Summary
- Energies of Nuclear Processes
- Chart of the Nuclides
- Nuclear Decay
- Conditions for Successful Nuclear Fission
- Transmutation
- Nuclear Fusion
- Radiological Toxicology
Chapter 11: Recycling and Waste Handling for Spent Nuclear Fuel
- Publisher Summary
- The Nuclear Energy Industry
- Recycling and Green Chemistry
- Why Reprocess Spent Nuclear Fuel?
- Discovery and Recovery
- Reprocessing: Recovery of Unused Fuel
- Waste Generation from Reprocessing
- Report to Congress
Chapter 12: Nuclear Power Plant Design
- Publisher Summary
- Advances in Thermal Efficiency
- Steam Cycles in Commercial Operation
- Generation IV Nuclear Power Plants
- Lessons from History
- Challenges in Nuclear Power Plant Design
Chapter 13: For-Profit Industrial Drivers
- Publisher Summary
- Levelized Cost Approach
- Capital Costs
- Case Studies
- Costs of Reprocessing
- Advocates for Nuclear Power
- Expanded Use of Nuclear Power in Residence and Commercial Applications
- Approaches to Long-Term Handling of Spent Nuclear Fuel
- Fuel Costs and Energy Options
- Comparison to Other Studies on Economics of Nuclear Power
- Concluding Comments
Index