Long-Term Nuclear Industry Outlook - 2004

Reichmuth, Barbara A. ; Wood, Thomas W. ; Johnson, Wayne L.

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S.)

关键词: Energy Demand;    Energy Sources;    08 Hydrogen;    Cogeneration;    Exports;   

DOI  :  10.2172/949170
RP-ID  :  PNNL-16331
RP-ID  :  AC05-76RL01830
RP-ID  :  949170

美国|英语

来源: UNT Digital Library

【 摘 要 】

The nuclear industry has become increasingly efficient and global in nature, but may now be poised at a crossroads between graceful decline and profound growth as a viable provider of electrical energy. Predicted population and energy-demand growth, an increased interest in global climate change, the desire to reduce the international dependence on oil as an energy source, the potential for hydrogen co-generation using nuclear power reactors, and the improved performance in the nuclear power industry have raised the prospect of a “nuclear renaissance” in which nuclear power would play an increasingly more important role in both domestic and international energy market. This report provides an assessment of the role nuclear-generated power will plan in the global energy future and explores the impact of that role on export controls.