Small Modular Reactors Nuclear Power Fad or Future?
Auteur : Ingersoll Daniel T
There is currently significant interest in the development of small modular reactors (SMRs) for the generation of both electricity and process heat. SMRs offer potential benefits in terms of better affordability and enhanced safety, and can also be sited more flexibly than traditional nuclear plants. Small Modular Reactors: Nuclear Power Fad or Future? reviews SMR features, promises, and problems, also discussing what lies ahead for reactors of this type.
The book is organized into three major parts with the first part focused on the role of energy, especially nuclear energy, for global development. It also provides a brief history of SMRs. The second major part presents basic nuclear power plant terminology and then discusses in depth the attributes of SMRs that distinguish them from traditional nuclear plants. The third and final major section discusses the current interest in SMRs from a customer?s perspective and delineates several remaining hurdles that must be addressed to achieve wide-spread SMR deployment.
Part I: Setting the Stage
1. Energy, Nuclear Power, and Small Modular Reactors
2. Brief History of Small Nuclear Power (1950-2000)
3. The Rise of Current Small Modular Reactors (2000-2015)
Part II: Fundamentals and Features
4. Nuclear Power 101: Understanding Nuclear Reactors
5. Enhancing Nuclear Safety
6. Improving Nuclear Affordability
7. Expanding Nuclear Power Flexibility
Part III: Promise to Reality
8. Customer Buzz About Small Modular Reactors
9. Getting to the Finish Line: Deployment Challenges and Opportunities
10. Fad or Future?
Energy policy makers in government and the power industry.
- Provides decision-makers in governments, business, and research with the needed background on small nuclear power and an overview of the current situation
- Presents a balanced discussion of the many advantages of SMRs and the challenges they face
- Written by a highly respected expert in the nuclear industry
Date de parution : 11-2015
Ouvrage de 202 p.
15x22.8 cm
Thèmes de Small Modular Reactors :
Mots-clés :
Affordability; Aircraft nuclear propulsion; Army nuclear power program; Challenges; Climate change; Decay heat removal; Department of energy; Department of Energy; Desalination; District heating; Economic competitiveness; Economic risk; Economy of scale; Emergency planning zone; Emerging countries; Energy security; Fukushima accident; Gas-cooled reactors; Generating capacity; Global energy demand; Global energy needs; Government facilities; Government regulation; Grid management; Human development; Hybrid energy systems; Hype cycle; Integral reactor; International reactor innovative and secure; Metal-cooled reactors; Naval propulsion; Next generation nuclear plant; Nuclear energy; Nuclear regulatory commission; Nuclear renaissance; Opportunities; Passive safety; Public acceptance; Reactor generations; Salt-cooled reactors; Small modular reactors; Water-cooled reactors