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Nuclear Goes Beyond Green

Nuclear Goes Beyond Green. Chapter 26 Kevin Gray. Quote. “By all means, let us use the small input from renewables sensibly, but only one immediately available source does not cause global warming and that is nuclear energy.” James Lovelock.

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Nuclear Goes Beyond Green

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  1. Nuclear Goes Beyond Green Chapter 26 Kevin Gray

  2. Quote “By all means, let us use the small input from renewables sensibly, but only one immediately available source does not cause global warming and that is nuclear energy.” James Lovelock

  3. Competitive operation costs with no carbon dioxide Nuclear power, while being comparable to coal-fired power plants in operation costs, produces no carbon dioxide. Wind, on the other hand, has higher operation costs and an equal, if not higher, net carbon dioxide production than coal. (discussed in previous chapters) IEA (Internal Energy Agency) Projected costs for power plants operating from 2015 to 2020 in dollars per megawatt-hour

  4. Nuclear power plant construction cost One draw back to nuclear energy is the initial construction cost being significantly higher than coal and natural gas power plants. Table 5 from chapter 26 does not include fuel costs for the different plants which brings overall costs closer together. Wind construction appears to be in the same range as nuclear but wind is not able to produce power 24/7/365.

  5. Waste from Nuclear Vs. Coal Waste comparison Nuclear waste storage Safe storage of nuclear waste is a challenge however FNR (fast neutron reactor) and FBR (fast breeder reactor) use U238 waste from U235 reactors as fuel. The waste from FNR is radioactive for a shorter time than current nuclear waste making storage easier. (more on this in later chapters) • 2,000 tons of nuclear waste is produced each year by all US nuclear power plants combined. • 131,000,000 tons of coal ash is produced by the US coal industry per year

  6. Subsidies Wind and solar are receiving about 15 times as much in federal subsidies while producing 1/25 of the energy created by nuclear. Wind and solar are only able to generate power during windy or sunny times making it impossible for these power sources to deliver reliable and always available power. Federal energy subsidies for electricity production in dollars per megawatt-hour

  7. Summary “If the United States is serious about cutting carbon dioxide emissions and reducing the harmful environmental side effects of coal-fired power while keeping the lights on and the beer cold, nuclear has to be an integral part of the plan.”

  8. Questions?

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