Climate change, nuclear power and nuclear proliferation: magnitude matters
Event details
| Date | 23.05.2011 |
| Hour | 16:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Robert Goldston, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory |
| Location |
Auditoire CE 1 - Centre Est
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Total electric power production is projected to reach 12 TWe by 2100.
Nuclear power may be needed to provide ~30% of this electrical power due to the scale-up limitations of renewable resources and of carbon sequestration. This sets a scale size for providing a significant impact on CO_2 emissions, but also for uranium usage, nuclear waste, and proliferation risks. Here we examine scenarios based on once-through fission, once-through fission followed by fast spectrum fission, and once-through fission followed by fusion.
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- Free