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      The Future of Civil Nuclear Energy

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      The Future of Civil Nuclear Energy
      ByMalcolm C. Grimston, Peter Beck
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2002
      eBook Published 10 January 2002
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781849776141
      Pages 252
      eBook ISBN 9781849776141
      Subjects Built Environment, Law, Politics & International Relations, Urban Studies
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      Grimston, M.C., & Beck, P. (2002). Double or Quits?: The Future of Civil Nuclear Energy (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781849776141

      ABSTRACT

      Global energy demand is likely to rise substantially by the mid-21st century. At the same time, the use of fossil fuels may need to be severely curtailed to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases. Nuclear power is one of the few options that meet these conflicting requirements. However, its potential to do so is an issue of wide disagreement and high emotions, with balanced information hard to find. This text, the culmination of a two-year study, provides a dispassionate and objective assessment of the major disputes on the future role of this controversial fuel. Decisionmakers and their advisers, as well as proponents and opponents of the fuel, should find that this book provides clarification of the main issues influencing the future of nuclear energy: relative economics, public perceptions and the process of decisionmaking, nuclear research and development, waste management, reprocessing and proliferation, nuclear safety and nuclear power and the Kyoto Protocol. In the light of the many uncertainties in the field of energy, the relevance of these issues can only continue to grow.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|13 pages

      Setting the scene

      chapter 2|47 pages

      Public perceptions and decision-making in civil nuclear energy

      chapter 3|41 pages

      The relative economics of nuclear power

      chapter 4|45 pages

      Radioactive waste management, reprocessing and proliferation

      chapter 5|29 pages

      Nuclear safety

      chapter 6|26 pages

      Nuclear energy research, development and commercialization

      chapter 7|24 pages

      Nuclear power and the Kyoto Protocol

      chapter 8|9 pages

      Recommendations and conclusions

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