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The reasons for the renewed interest in fast reactors and an overview of the progress in sodium cooled fast reactor operation in the last ten years are given. The excellent operational performance of sodium cooled fast reactors in this period is highlighted as a sound basis for the development...
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Determining the cost of implementing a nuclear energy policy is very important due to the high costs associated with … nuclear programs. Such programs may be unattainable to certain countries due to the many requirements that ensure a safe and … secure nuclear sector. The IAEA has a large number of publications that indicate the requirements for implementing nuclear …
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three nuclear plants in Sweden. Since maintenance is the main conduit explaining the variation in output, I formulate a …
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nuclear investments does not impact results. Unavailability of bioenergy-based CCS (BECCS) has a visible impact (18% increase …
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France wants to become carbon-neutral by 2050. Renewable energies and nuclear power are expected to make the main … contribution to this goal. However, the average age of nuclear power plants is approaching 37 years of operation in 2022, which is … likely to lead to increased outages and expensive maintenance. In addition, newer nuclear power plants are flexible to …
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electricity generation must be prioritised. This has led to something of a renaissance for the nuclear industry, the development … motivations for the development of nuclear energy in the current global energy economy. It considers climate change as a key … the different drivers for countries exporting nuclear technology and those importing it to generate domestic electricity …
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pipeline projects, sprouting new LNG terminals, plans to build nuclear power infrastructure, a race to develop new energy …
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nuclear energy in electricity production into account. We adopt the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to … from nuclear energy to CO2 emissions statistically provides evidence on the important role of nuclear energy in reducing CO …
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threat of war by capitulating on its nuclear weapons ambitions. We find that it is always possible to generate such a threat … international community feels about a nuclear armed Iran relative to its own costs from a possible war. We do not claim that this …
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This study finds that North Korea's nuclear test and the imposition of UN Security Council sanctions have had no … underground nuclear test, it was widely believed that such an event would have cataclysmic diplomatic ramifications. However … calculated quite correctly that the direct penalties for establishing itself as a nuclear power would be modest (or …
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