Economics and Politics of Energy, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996

The 1995 conference was organized around two closely related themes and focused on the two pivotal aspects of energy, that is, economics and politics, both of which are decisive in providing long-term national and international strategies for the next century. Originally the program was going to include the participants from the new oil powers in Central Asia and Caucasus, newly independent from the former U.S.S.R. However, probably both economics and politics prevented their participation. Global energy projections, technological changes such as nuclear power and the fuel geopolitics of the coming century will be the basis for political and strategic planning. Based on the scenarios of likely global economic and population growth and of new energy technologies, what are foreseeable scenarios for the geopolitics of energy a half century ahead? What fresh worldwide systems should we start now? The political problems with profound economic impact could include, for example, the significance of the continuing worldwide growth of nuclear power, with such issues as the use of Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) and Plutonium obtained from the dismantling of U.S. and former U.S.S.R. nuclear weapons; the urgency of nonproliferation; the disposal of civilian and military nuclear waste; and, nuclear power alternatives. In spite of U.S. reluctance, the increasing role of nuclear power is becoming apparent in several countries, and its potential has become an important political factor today.

Presentations on the International Conference on Economics and Politics of Energy.- Presentations on the International Conference on Economics and Politics of Energy.- Global Energy Demand Projections in the Coming Century, Driven by Population, Economics, and Energy Efficiency.- Global Energy and Electricity Futures.- The Next Fifty Years of the Peaceful Applications of Nuclear Energy.- Energy Supply Projections of Primary Fuels, Renewables, Conservation, and Nuclear Power.- The Role of Natural Gas in Electric Power Generation in the Twenty-First Century.- Contrasting Nuclear Growth Potential: Central/Eastern Europe Versus Southeast Asia.- World Energy Use — Trends in Demand.- Nuclear Prospects in Southeast Asia and the Far East: A Review of Emerging Markets for Nuclear Power.- The Role of Subsidies and Private Investments in Sustainable Rural Electrification.- The Next Fifty Years of the Peaceful Application of Nuclear Energy.- The Gas Turbine-Modular Helium Reactor for the Next Fifty Years of Nuclear Power.- Nuclear Power in its Second Half Century.- The Worldwide Perspectives for Nuclear Power.- A Doe Perspective on the Future of Nuclear Energy.- A Vision of the Second Fifty Years of Nuclear Technology.- Nuclear Power Growth, Non-Proliferation, and Politics of Nuclear Energy.- Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) First-of-a-Kind Engineering (FOAKE).- The Civilian Recycling Industry: A Key Contribution to Disarmament.- Nuclear Materials Safeguards for the Future.- The U.S.-Russian HEU Agreement: A Modern Day Example of Swords Into Plowshares.- International Management of Nuclear Power Fuel Systems.- Thermal Issues with the U.S. High-Level Waste Repository and the Potential Benefits of Waste Transmutation.- Management of Russian Military Plutonium.- Relevance ofInternational Consensus Policies on Alternative National Energy Strategies as Related to Free Market Economic, Global Fuel Transportation Systems for Oil and Gas, Environmental Impact and Geopolitical Trends.- Transporting Oil from the Caspian Sea to Western Markets: A Turkish Perspective.- Renewables: A Key Component of Our Global Energy Future.