Nuclear Energy- Economic Analysis and Environmental Impact

Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-0-323-90625-8
Verlag: Elsevier Health Sciences

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Nuclear Energy- Economic Analysis and Environmental Impact guides the reader through all elements required to make an informed decision on new nuclear power plants and provides analysis of the environmental benefits in comparison to other renewable energy sources. The book covers the economic factors, environmental benefits, and policy issues of nuclear power generation to improve public perception and increase the deployment of nuclear in the energy mix. Readers are provided with an essential toolkit to assess nuclear projects which enables them to perform a levelized cost analysis of power generation and compare different renewable generation technologies.

Sections cover the historical deployment of nuclear power and its corresponding costs, compare fission technologies to other advanced systems, address the main concepts of economic and financial analyses, power plant structure components, and principles of Monte Carlo methods for uncertainty analysis, and delve into how various elements of the electricity grid interact. In addition, other renewable electricity sources alongside their advantages, disadvantages, and foreseeable capacities are presented.

Zielgruppe

<p>Postgraduate on programs in nuclear engineering or energy; undergraduates of nuclear energy; researchers at institutes and in industry; those responsible for energy planning and emission reduction; those carrying out economic and environmental analysis for the deployment of nuclear power. </p>

Autoren/Hrsg.

Alonso, Gustavo

Del Valle, Edmundo Del

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Umwelttechnik
• Technische Wissenschaften Energietechnik | Elektrotechnik Atomenergietechnik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umwelttechnik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction2. Nuclear Power Plants3. Economic and Finance Concepts4. Elements for Power Plant Deployment5. Risk analysis6. Electricity Systems7. Renewable Electricity Sources8. Challenges in Clean Sources Integration9. Environmental Consequences10. Reactor decommissioning

Über Autor(innen)

Alonso, Gustavo
Dr. Alonso is currently a Professor and Deputy-Director at Technical University of Madrid, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering (ETSIAE/UPM). He lectures at graduate and post-graduate levels on various topics such as Air Transport Management and Aerospace Engineering. He is also involved in the organization and management of different courses and seminars and a visiting professor at several Universities.

Del Valle, Edmundo Del
He was granted a Sc. D. in Physics, M.Sc. in Nuclear Engineering and B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN) in Mexico. He is member of the Academy of Engineering of Mexico and the Mexican Academy of Sciences. His research interests are the development and application of nodal finite element methods to the nuclear reactor physics and engineering. Dr. del Valle is a senior professor and scientist at the National Polytechnic Institute in Mexico. He has published more than 40 peer-reviewed journal papers, and has supervised over 25 graduate students.