, to invest in new nuclear power units or should some of the existing units be decommissioned? The theoretical model … French nuclear power plants. The main finding is that, on a certain number of theoretical and empirical assumptions, it is … optimal at present is to leave French nuclear power capacity unchanged. Other more general findings follow from the …

A strategy to enable zero-carbon variable electricity production with full utilization of renewable and nuclear energy … sources has been developed. Wind and solar systems send electricity to the grid. Nuclear plants operate at full capacity with … variable steam to turbines to match electricity demand with production (renewables and nuclear). Excess steam at times of low …

Current UK Government support for nuclear power has in part been informed by cost estimates that suggest that … electricity from new nuclear power stations will be competitive with alternative low carbon generation options. The evidence and … analysis presented in this paper suggests that the capital cost estimates for nuclear power that are being used to inform these …

promote a nuclear power construction programme, a streamlined renewables programmes and a system to ensure that generation … delivering the promised nuclear programme and the system of ‘feed-in tariffs’ announced for renewables is stunted and made less …

Considering the unclear nuclear future of Japan after Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant accident since Mar. 11 …, 2011, this study assesses a series of energy consumption scenarios including the reference scenario, nuclear limited … scenarios and current nuclear use level scenario for Japan in 2030 by the G-CEEP (Glocal Century Energy Environment Planning …

accounts for nearly 50% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, is crucial. The suitability of nuclear power as a base …-load technology and its relatively negligible GHG emissions raised expectations of a nuclear renaissance, until the Fukushima disaster … brought discussions about nuclear power’s potential to a standstill. However, completely ruling out nuclear may not be …

The Asia Pacific region includes six of the world’s nine nuclear-armed states, and in all of them relevant policymakers …, still caught in a Cold War mindset, continue to believe in nuclear deterrence as a force for peace and stability, perceiving … nuclear disarmament to be not only unachievable, but undesirable. But — whether the context is major powers seeking to …

nuclear power. The small modular reactor (SMR) is viewed as a possible solution to the problems of energy security as well as …

A common value of carbon emission factor, t-CO2/GWh, in nuclear power generation reported in the literature varies by … comparison of carbon emissions from nuclear power generation. The proposed methodology employs the principle of energy balance on … decomposition technique to identify the carbon emission streams. Using nuclear power as a case study, we obtained a carbon emission …