Nuclear Technologies in a Sustainable Energy System

1. Front Matter

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2. Global Strategies and Concepts

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Energy Strategies and Nuclear Power

      • Wolf Häfele

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   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

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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

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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

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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

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.

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• Kernbrennstoff
• Kernfusion
• Kernreaktor
• Nuclear Energy
• Nuclear Technologies
• Radioaktiver Abfall
• Reaktor
• Sustainable Energy
• energy
• hydrogen
• hydrogen production
• nuclear

• 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

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