Brings to light the fears and hesitation of using nuclear energy and explains that technologies and procedures for safe production and processing are available today.
Description
Sustainable Nuclear Power provides non-nuclear engineers, scientists and energy planners with the necessary information to understand and utilize the major advances in the field. The book demonstrates that nuclear fission technology has the abundance and attainability to provide centuries of safe power with minimal greenhouse gas generation. It also addresses the safety and disposal issues that have plagued the development of the nuclear power industry and scared planners and policy makers as well as the general public for more than two decades. In addition, the authors provide a Companion website, http://books.elsevier.com/companions, which gives access to government reports and case studies
Readership
Engineers and scientists who have not had training in nuclear engineering; administrators and legislatures seeking to understand the potential for nuclear power; engineering students
Quotes
This book is designed to provide nonnuclear engineers, scientist, and energy planers with the necessary information to understand and utilize the major advances in the field of nuclear power. The book demonstrates that nuclear fission technology has the abundance and attainability to provide centuries of safe power with minimal greenhouse gas generation.-Nuclear News, February 2007
Contents
PART I - Energy Sources and Their Potential
Introduction
History of Energy
Energy Reserves and Renewable Energy Sources
Emerging Fuel Technologies and Factors Driving Technology
PART II - Energy Conversion and Utilization
History of Conversion of Thermal Energy to Work
Transportation
Production of Electricity
Energy in Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning
PART III - Energineering of Nuclear Power Processes
Atomic Processes and Heat Transfer in Nuclear Power
Safe Plant Design
Recycling and Waste Handling for Spent Nuclear Fuel
For-Profit Industrial Drivers
References
Appendices
Author Information
By Galen J. Suppes, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Missouri, Columbia; and Truman Storvick, Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri, Columbia
