Nuclear energy context

Yet the resurrection of alchemical tropes at the birth of modern atomic science demands a third version of the story. Weart notes that the word transmutation offered a clue that could help explain almost every strange image that would later appear in nuclear energy tales (6). In order to understand fully the relationships between alchemical transmutation and the science of radioactivity, I take a path that branches off from both the traditional history of scientific discovery and the image history that Weart provides. In Modem Alchemy, I reconstruct the history of how scientific knowledge was produced and how it was elaborated in a broader cultural and spiritual context. That is, I look at science, its public elaboration, and its spiritual4 dimensions as mutually interacting realms, and tell a story of how science and occultism were entwined. 

The hydrogen production mix is very sensitive to the country-specific context and strongly influenced by the assumed feedstock prices resource availability and policy support also play a role, in particular for hydrogen from renewable and nuclear energy. 

The international context for nuclear energy has led the scientific community to draw up common strategies to plan for new generation reactors. Recycling (individual or by families) of nuclear materials is a primary objective and requires efficient processes to be established (1, 2). To meet such needs, liquid-liquid extraction remains a favored route. 

This chapter explores issues of nuclear energy policy in the particular context of EU enlargement. 

In the business context, the international trends to more effective uranium utilization, closed fuel cycles with reprocessing and recycle of spent fuel, and more effective and efficient management of spent fuel and reduction of eventual wastes are becoming obvious. These trends require major exporters of nuclear reactors and uranium fuel with international commitments to develop an effective international presence and new technical processes to keep technology relevant and competitive (e.g., as evidenced by the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership efforts of the United States). 

In this context the important role of the Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform (SNETP) ° should be stressed. The SNE-TP provides guidance to European research, innovation, and education programs in three domains, covering all generations of NPPs, namely, the following ... 

In this context it is worth recaUing an important international political initiative the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), launched by the US Department of... 

Brian Flannery, Exxon Mobil I understand that Finland is seeking a license to build a new nuclear power plant, partly in the context of what Finland has to do in terms of climate change. In the United States, we are going through relicensing. What are the prospects for nuclear energy in the United States That is, what will the scale of nuclear be in the U.S. utility mix say in 10 years, and what are the prospects for having more nuclear ... 

PM Clinton Bastin,Formerly US Department of Energy Nuclear Technology Need For New Vision David Bodansky,Professor Emeritus, University of Washington Nuclear Power in the context Of Critical Global Problems ... 

The F + H2 — HF + FI reaction is one of the most studied chemical reactions in science, and interest in this reaction dates back to the discovery of the chemical laser.79 In the early 1970s, a collinear quantum scattering treatment of the reaction predicted the existence of isolated resonances.80 Subsequent theoretical investigations, using various dynamical approximations on several different potential energy surfaces (PESs), essentially all confirmed this prediction. The term resonance in this context refers to a transient metastable species produced as the reaction occurs. Transient intermediates are well known in many kinds of atomic and molecular processes, as well as in nuclear and particle physics.81 What makes reactive resonances unique is that they are not necessarily associated with trapping... 

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