The growth of nuclear power: drivers & constraints
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Rosner, Robert
Lester, Richard K
Date Issued
September 2009
Journal
Daedalus
Publisher
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Citation
Lester, Richard K., and Robert Rosner. “The growth of nuclear power: drivers & constraints.” Daedalus 138.4 (2009): 19-30. © 2009 American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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Abstract
Many countries around the world
are taking a fresh look at nuclear power.
An important cause of what has come
to be called the global nuclear renaissance
is the prospect of severe disruptions
to the earth’s climate brought
about by continued increases in greenhouse
gas emissions, primarily from
the combustion of fossil fuels. Nuclear
power occupies a unique position in
the debate over global climate change
as the only carbon-free energy source
that is already contributing to world
energy supplies on a large scale and
that is also expandable with few inherent
limits. These attributes are regularly
highlighted by nuclear energy advocates
and now, increasingly, by some
formerly anti-nuclear activists, even
as other environmentalists remain
strongly opposed to this technology.
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering
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https://doi.org/10.1162/daed.2009.138.4.19
