Nuclear Technologies in a Sustainable Energy System; Selected Papers from an IIASA Workshop, May 25-27, 1981

Bauer, G.S. & McDonald, A. (1983). Nuclear Technologies in a Sustainable Energy System; Selected Papers from an IIASA Workshop, May 25-27, 1981. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 3-540-12154-4

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Abstract

This book stems from the effort within IIASA 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 but rather 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.

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