Overview
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G. S. Bauer
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Projekt Spallations-Neutronenquelle, der Kernforschungsanlage Jülich GmbH, Jülich 1, Federal Republic of Germany
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A. McDonald
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Norton’s Woods, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, USA
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Table of contents (22 papers)
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Accelerator Breeding
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- G. S. Bauer, J. E. Vetter
Pages 237-263
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Handling the Waste
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Front Matter
Pages 269-269
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- Hiroshi Murata, Hideo Kuroi
Pages 287-303
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Reflections and Summary
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Front Matter
Pages 311-311
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Back Matter
Pages 329-329
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
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Projekt Spallations-Neutronenquelle, der Kernforschungsanlage Jülich GmbH, Jülich 1, Federal Republic of Germany
G. S. Bauer
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Norton’s Woods, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, USA
A. McDonald