Nuclear power development: Global challenges and strategies

1997 - Volume 39, Issue 2 | by Mourogov, V.M. (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria). Dept. of Nuclear Energy) | The article discusses the following global aspects of nuclear power development: the global energy issue. The potential of nuclear power. Fuel cycle and reactor strategies (maximizing resource utilization, uranium fuel cycle, thorium fuel cycle, maximizing economic benefits, ... Read more »

Nuclear power plant performance: Sustaining initiatives for progress

1997 - Volume 39, Issue 2 | by Gueorguiev, B.; Mahadeva Rao, K.V. (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria). Nuclear Power Engineering Section) | The article discusses the following issues of nuclear power plant performance improvement: national initiatives for improved performance and safety (increasing production, reducing workload, improving work process, improving productivity, measuring performance). The IAEA ... Read more »

Advanced nuclear power plants: Highlights of global development

1997 - Volume 39, Issue 2 | by Juhn, Poong-Eil; Kupitz, J.; Cleveland, J. (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria). Div. of Nuclear Power and the Fuel Cycle) | The article overviews of water-cooled reactor, gas-cooled reactor, liquid metal-cooled reactor development programmes and IAEA activities supporting development of nuclear power technology ... Read more »

Nuclear power applications: Supplying heat for homes and industries

1997 - Volume 39, Issue 2 | by Csik, B.J.; Kupitz, J. (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria). Nuclear Power Technology Development Section) | Use of nuclear power for supplying heat for homes and industries is discussed including the following issues: the energy market. Characteristics of the heat market. Characteristics of nuclear heat sources. Prospects of nuclear heat applications ... Read more »

Nuclear energy applications: Desalting water from the sea

1997 - Volume 39, Issue 2 | by Konishi, Toshio (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria). Div. of Nuclear Power and the Fuel Cycle) | The IAEA activities in such an area of nuclear energy application as desalting water from the sea are described ... Read more »

Future nuclear energy systems: Generating electricity, burning wastes

1997 - Volume 39, Issue 2 | by Arkhipov, V. (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria). Nuclear Power Technology Development Section) | The prospects of one of the future nuclear energy systems for generating electricity and burning radioactive wastes are discussed - the system merging the technology of accelerators with reactors ... Read more »

Greenhouse gases and the nuclear fuel cycle: What emissions?

1997 - Volume 39, Issue 2 | by Taylor, M. (Uranium Inst., London (United Kingdom)) | Some opponents began to put forward the view that carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions attributable to stages in the nuclear fuel cycle were significant, and could even be comparable in magnitude to those from fossil fuel burning. Although the contention that nuclear power ... Read more »