Nuclear energy in the

Before returning to a more specific discussion about the alignment of our energy R D with our policies and regulations, I would like to first examine three drivers that are shaping die real world for nuclear energy in the 21st century ... 

First, Americans do not want to abandon nuclear energy. When a nationwide sample of Americans were asked whether the current utilization of nuclear energy in the United States should be decreased kept the same, or increased, about 43% wanted to keep it the same and around 30% wanted to increase it. Approximately 27% wanted to decrease reliance on nuclear energy. 

At the state level, there is growing awareness of the essential role of nuclear power in meeting Clean Air Act requirements, and the continued importance of emission free nuclear energy in the future. Just ask the state of Georgia, which is concerned about the... 

The nuclear reaction that finally stabilizes the structure of the protostar is the fusion of two protons to form a deuterium atom, a positron, and a neutrino (1 H(p,p+v)2D). This reaction becomes important at a temperature of a few million degrees. The newly produced deuterium then bums to 3He, which in turn bums to 4He in the proton-proton chain. The proton-proton chain is the main source of nuclear energy in the Sun. With the initiation of hydrogen burning... 

Hori, M. (2000), Role of Nuclear Energy in the Long-term Global Energy Perspective , Nuclear Production of Hydrogen, First Information Exchange Meeting, France, October, OECD/NEA, Paris. 

Entergy is the second largest nuclear owner/operator in the United States with five nuclear units in the south operating under a cost of service structure and an additional six units in the Northeast and Midwest operating as merchant generating facilities. As a major nuclear operator in the merchant sector, Entergy wears the risk of nuclear operations - revenues are directly dependent upon operational performance. Our investment in merchant nuclear operations reflects our belief that use of nuclear energy in the competitive merchant environment can be an economically viable business venture. 

Blix, H., Nuclear energy in the 21st century. Nuclear News, September 1997, p. 34. 

By far the most common use of TNT is in the manufacture of explosives. Until the discovery of nuclear energy in the 1940s, TNT was the most powerful explosive known to humans. Today, TNT is often combined with other explosives to make even more powerful bombs. Some examples include the following ... 

It is not the purpose of this chapter to seek to review the entire history of nuclear energy in the European Union, nor is it appropriate to attempt... 

The preeminent transnational community in our culture is science. With the release of nuclear energy in the fi rst half of the twentieth century that model commonwealth decisively challenged the power of the nationstate. The confrontation is ongoing and inextricably embedded in mortal risk, but it offers at least a distant prospect of felicity. 

In view of the expected rise of energy consumption after 1985, the SO2 density - when based on the most favorable situation of an average S-content for all fuels of about 1 -can still reach 70 - 80 tons per sq. km in the year 2000. This corresponds to an interior SO2 emission of about 2,600 x 103 tons. This expectation is also based upon the assumption that until 2000 the share of nuclear energy in the Dutch energy production will not rise (in 1976 1.65>, in 1985 max. 1.50 ). 

This paper describes the Department of Energy s (DOE s) Nuclear Energy Research Initiative (NERI) that has been established to address and help overcome the principal technical and scientific issues affecting the future use of nuclear energy in the United States. 

Develop advanced reactor and fuel cycle concepts and scientific breakthroughs in nuclear technology to overcome the principal scientific and technical obstacles to expand future use of nuclear energy in the United States, including issues involving nuclear material proliferation, unfavorable economics, and nuclear waste disposition ... 

Nuclear Energy Institute (1999), Nuclear Energy 2000 and Beyond—1999 Update to A Strategic Direction for Nuclear Energy in the 2P Century, NEI 98-Wl, Washington, D.C. 

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