Economics and Politics of Energy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Presentations on the International Conference on Economics and Politics of Energy

   1. Presentations on the International Conference on Economics and Politics of Energy

      • José G. Martín

      Pages 1-21

3. Global Energy Demand Projections in the Coming Century, Driven by Population, Economics, and Energy Efficiency

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Global Energy and Electricity Futures

      • Richard E. Balzhiser

      Pages 25-37

   3. The Next Fifty Years of the Peaceful Applications of Nuclear Energy

      • Glenn T. Seaborg

      Pages 39-42

4. Energy Supply Projections of Primary Fuels, Renewables, Conservation, and Nuclear Power

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43

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   2. The Role of Natural Gas in Electric Power Generation in the Twenty-First Century

      • Steven I. Freedman

      Pages 45-53

   3. Contrasting Nuclear Growth Potential: Central/Eastern Europe Versus Southeast Asia

      • Raymond J. Sero

      Pages 55-64

   4. World Energy Use — Trends in Demand

      • Randy Hudson

      Pages 65-73

   5. Nuclear Prospects in Southeast Asia and the Far East: A Review of Emerging Markets for Nuclear Power

      • Gerald Clark, Secretary General

      Pages 75-83

   6. The Role of Subsidies and Private Investments in Sustainable Rural Electrification

      • Phillip W. Covell, Richard D. Hansen, José G. Martín

      Pages 85-103

5. The Next Fifty Years of the Peaceful Application of Nuclear Energy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. The Gas Turbine-Modular Helium Reactor for the Next Fifty Years of Nuclear Power

      • L. S. Blue

      Pages 107-119

   3. Nuclear Power in its Second Half Century

      • Shelby T. Brewer

      Pages 121-128

   4. The Worldwide Perspectives for Nuclear Power

      • Poong Eil Juhn

      Pages 129-143

   5. A Doe Perspective on the Future of Nuclear Energy

      • Terry R. Lash, William D. Magwood IV

      Pages 145-154

   6. A Vision of the Second Fifty Years of Nuclear Technology

      • Don W. Miller

      Pages 155-160

6. Nuclear Power Growth, Non-Proliferation, and Politics of Nuclear Energy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 161-161

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   2. Advanced Boiling Water Reactor (ABWR) First-of-a-Kind Engineering (FOAKE)

      • Roger J. McCandless

      Pages 163-169

   3. The Civilian Recycling Industry: A Key Contribution to Disarmament

      • J. A. de Montalembert, M. McMurphy

      Pages 171-175

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.

• energy
• environment
• growth
• nuclear energy
• water

• Global Foundation, Inc., Coral Gables

  Behram N. Kursunoglu

• Florida International University, Miami

  Stephan L. Mintz

• University of Miami, Coral Gables

  Arnold Perlmutter

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