Nuclear energy hydrocarbons

Nuclear energy can be less expensive and more environmentally sensitive than hydrocarbon energy, but it has been the victim of the poli-... 

Our long-range energy future clearly must be safe nuclear energy, which should increasingly free still remaining fossil fuels as sources for convenient transportation fuels and as raw materials for synthesis of plastics, chemicals, and other substances. Eventually, however, in the not too distant future we will need to make synthetic hydrocarbons on a large scale. 

Nuclear energy can effectively be used in these processes to supply hydrogen, heat and/or oxygen, otherwise fossil fuel consumption is inevitable to supply hydrogen and/or heat. Thus, using nuclear energy for these hydrocarbon production processes will reduce fossil fuel consumption and consequently C02 emission during production processes. 

Schultz, K., et al. (2009), Synthesis of Hydrocarbon Fuels Using Renewable and Nuclear Energy , Nuclear Technology, Vol. 166,4-08018, April. 

It is our belief that a transition of the world s energy infrastructme from the current one, based almost entirely on hydrocarbon fuels, to a diversified mix, including significant use of renewable sources (e.g., solar, wind, geothermal), increased use of nuclear energy, as well as petroleum, coal, and natmal gas, would likely include hydrogen as an energy carrier, particularly in the transportation sector. 

It is not sufficient merely to have such material on the libraiy shelves it must also be carefully indexed. All new books and pamphlets received are examined carefully for information that would not ordinarily be expected in such publications. In The Chemistry of the Non-Benzenoid Hydrocarbons (1922) by B. T. Brooks, for example, there are references to naphthenic acids, production of fatty acids by wax oxidation, and synthetic lubricating oils. In Volume VI of Colloid Chemistry (1946) edited by Jerome Alexander, there are chapters on the Geiger-Miiller x-ray spectrometer, electron microscopy, catalysis and its industrial applications, soil stabilization, polythene, and potential nuclear energy. Such information is typed on 3 X 5 cards on some books as many as forty or fifty cards may be required. In this way an extremely useful file of information has been built up that might otherwise be overlooked as valuable data sometimes appear in unexpected places. 

Graves C, Ebbesen SD, Mogensen M, Lackner KS (2011) Sustainable hydrocarbon fuels by recycling CO2 and H2O with renewable or nuclear energy. Renew Sustain Energy Rev 15 1-23... 

Trends in commercial fuel, eg, fossd fuel, hydroelectric power, nuclear power, production and consumption in the United States and in the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, are shown in Tables 2 and 3. These trends indicate (6,13) (/) a significant resurgence in the production and use of coal throughout the U.S. economy (2) a continued decline in the domestic U.S. production of cmde oil and natural gas lea ding to increased imports of these hydrocarbons (qv) and (J) a continued trend of energy conservation, expressed in terms of energy consumed per... 

Taking into account the possibility of highly directional blast effects, Eichler and Napadensky (1977) recommend the use of a safe and conservative value for TNT equivalency, namely, between 20% and 40%, for the determination of safe standoff distances between transportation routes and nuclear power plants. This value is based on energy it should be applied to the total amount of hydrocarbon in the largest single, pressurized storage tank being transported. 

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