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Nuclear Technologies in a Sustainable Energy System

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 1983

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Editors:
  1. G. S. Bauer

    1. Projekt Spallations-Neutronenquelle, der Kernforschungsanlage Jülich GmbH, Jülich 1, Federal Republic of Germany

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  2. A. McDonald

    1. Norton’s Woods, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, USA

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Table of contents (22 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Global Strategies and Concepts

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Energy Strategies and Nuclear Power

      • Wolf Häfele
      Pages 3-19

    3. The Nuclear Energy Continuum and its Spectrum of Choices

      • A. A. Harms
      Pages 21-32

    4. On the Internal Logic of Energy Islands

      • C. Marchetti
      Pages 33-47

  3. Fission and Fission Breeding

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
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    2. Self-Sustaining Systems of Reactors

      • Bernard I. Spinrad
      Pages 51-66

    3. Sustainable Minireactors: A Framework for Decentralized Nuclear Energy Systems

      • A. A. Harms, W. W. Sassin
      Pages 67-74

    4. Small Reactors in a Neutron-Abundant World

      • J. W. Hilborn
      Pages 75-85

    5. On the Role and Technological Readiness of Fast Breeders and Fusion-Fission Hybrids in the World Nuclear Future

      • S. I. Abdel-Khalik, G. L. Kulcinski, G. Kessler
      Pages 87-103

  4. Fusion and Dense Plasma Neutron Sources

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105
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    2. The Tokamak as a Candidate for a D-T Fusion Reactor

      • G. H. Wolf
      Pages 107-119

    3. The Fusion Breeder: Its Potential Role and Prospects

      • J. D. Lee
      Pages 121-136

    4. Prospects of Hydrogen Production through Fusion

      • Edwin E. Kintner
      Pages 137-154

    5. Modern Electrolytic Procedures for the Production of Hydrogen by Splitting Water

      • H. W. Nürnberg, J. Divisek, B. D. Struck
      Pages 155-171

    6. The Dense Plasma Focus as a Source of Neutrons

      • H. Conrads
      Pages 173-185

    7. Possible Applications of a Hybrid Thermonuclear Energy Source Based on a DPF Device in Modern Energy Complexes

      • V. A. Gribkov, M. G. Tyagunov
      Pages 187-199

  5. Accelerator Breeding

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 201-201
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    2. Accelerator Spallation Reactors for Breeding Fissile Fuel and Transmuting Fission Products

      • Meyer Steinberg
      Pages 203-224

    3. Accelerator Breeder Applications

      • J. S. Fraser
      Pages 225-235
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About this book

In March 1981 the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) published the results of a global energy study looking fifty years into the future: Energy in a Finite World: A Global Systems Analysis (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Ballinger Publishing Co. , 1981)*. Not surprisingly, this book raises almost as many questions as it answers; thus, it defines a broad range of research topics that might be taken up by IIASA or other research institutions around the world. A 25-27 May 1981 workshop at IIASA entitled "A Perspective on Adaptive Nuclear Energy Evolutions: Towards a World of Neutron Abundance" was a beginning on one of these topics; it was organized by Wolf Hafele (Kernforschungsanlage Ji. ilich, Jiilich, Federal Republic of Germany, and IIASA) and Arkadius Archie Harms (McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada). The origin of this workshop was the effort with­ in the IIASA energy study to explore possible "sustainable" global energy systems that might eventually replace the current "consumptive" system. In investigating the possible contributions nuclear technologies might make to a sustainable energy system, it had become clear that it is not so much particular, distinct technologies within the nuclear family that should be examined as a question of particularly advantageous configurations of mutually complementary technologies. Only when one considers exploiting a whole spectrum of arrangements of fission breeders, fusion reactors, and accelerators does the true potential of nuclear power become apparent.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Projekt Spallations-Neutronenquelle, der Kernforschungsanlage Jülich GmbH, Jülich 1, Federal Republic of Germany

    G. S. Bauer

  • Norton’s Woods, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, USA

    A. McDonald

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Nuclear Technologies in a Sustainable Energy System

  • Editors: G. S. Bauer, A. McDonald

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81988-9

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Laxenburg/Austria 1983

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-81990-2Published: 13 December 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-81988-9Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 330

  • Topics: Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Renewable and Green Energy

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