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Nuclear energy: Rebirth of Resuscitation?
| Author | CEIP, Sharon Squassoni |
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6-01-0-00-262.pdf |
| Date | 2009 |
| Classification | 6.01.0.00/262 (GENERAL) |
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From the publication:
Nuclear Energy:
Rebirth or
Resuscitation?
Sharon Squassoni
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v
Summary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Nuclear Energy: Rebirth or Resuscitation? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
The “Nuclear Renaissance” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Energy Security and Nuclear Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Climate Change and Nuclear Power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Nuclear Energy’s Contribution to Mitigating Global Climate
Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Particular Challenges of Nuclear Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Global Capacity Factors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Where Might Nuclear Energy Expand? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .