[PDF] Technology Roadmap Nuclear Energy 2015 Edition

Each main nation and sector of the financial system would should be concerned. The duty is pressing if we’re to guarantee that funding selections taken now don’t saddle us with sub-optimal applied sciences in the long run. Consciousness is rising on the necessity to flip political statements and analytical work into concrete motion. To spark this motion, the Worldwide Energy Company (IEA) is main the event of a sequence of Roadmaps for a few of the most vital applied sciences. By figuring out the steps wanted to speed up the implementation of expertise adjustments, these Roadmaps will allow governments, trade and monetary companions to make the suitable decisions – and in flip assist societies to make the suitable selections.

This Roadmap is an replace of the 2010 Technology Roadmap: Nuclear Energy (IEA/NEA, 2010), and, equally to the 2010 version, it has been ready collectively by the IEA and the Organisation for Financial Co-operation and Growth (OECD) Nuclear Energy Company (NEA). The nuclear vitality panorama has modified since 2010, with various occasions affecting its growth: the Fukushima Daiichi accident, which heightened public concern over the protection of nuclear vitality in lots of international locations, and the following security critiques and growth of latest security necessities to make sure even increased ranges of security for present and future nuclear energy crops; the shift in direction of Technology III reactors for nuclear new construct; and the financial and monetary crises which have each lowered vitality demand and made financing of capital-intensive infrastructure tasks tougher, particularly in liberalised electrical energy markets.

As a follow-up to this Roadmap, the NEA is initiating a extremely technical survey to establish the vital analysis and growth efforts which might be wanted to allow international locations to contemplate superior nuclear vitality applied sciences as they try to scale back their reliance on fossil fuels. Every nation should resolve what vitality combine is perfect for its nationwide circumstances. Nevertheless, the basic benefits offered by nuclear vitality when it comes to discount of GHG emissions, competitiveness of electrical energy manufacturing and safety of provide nonetheless apply. The variety of reactors underneath development is presently the very best in 25 years, with the Folks’s Republic of China main the way in which when it comes to new tasks.

There may be additionally renewed curiosity in creating extra progressive designs and superior nuclear gas cycles to deal with new markets and enhance the competitiveness of nuclear energy crops. The Roadmap is predicated on a situation the place long-term world temperature will increase are restricted to simply 2 levels Celsius (oC) and descriptions a situation that highlights nuclear vitality’s potential contribution to this low-carbon future. This situation just isn’t a prediction of what is going to occur. Nuclear vitality can play a key function in decarbonising our electrical energy methods by offering a steady supply of low-carbon base-load electrical energy.

By figuring out main limitations and proposals on how they are often overcome, this Roadmap goals to help governments eager about sustaining or creating nuclear vitality applied sciences. To get us onto the suitable pathway, this Roadmap highlights a number of key actions to be addressed within the subsequent decade to make sure the circumstances for a secure, publicly accepted and inexpensive deployment of nuclear expertise in international locations that have already got the expertise in addition to in newcomer international locations.

Technology roadmap : nuclear energy PDF

Author(s): OECD

Series: IEA technology roadmaps.

Publisher: OECD/IEA, OECD/NEA, Year: 2010

ISBN: 9789264088191

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