The Fourth Generation Of Nuclear Reactors Fundamentals Types And Benefits Explained
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The fourth generation of nuclear reactors
Author: Thomas Schulenberg
language: en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date: 2022-05-28
This book is intended for readers who want to learn more about fourth-generation nuclear reactors without having to delve deeply into nuclear technology. These nuclear reactors are a number of visionary concepts for which special criteria have been set by the Generation IV International Forum with regard to safety, sustainability and economic efficiency. The book therefore describes, among other things, innovative water- and liquid-metal-cooled reactors, high-temperature and molten-salt reactors, and discusses their significance for the economy and society. The author imparts relevant basic knowledge of nuclear technology and then uses some illustrative examples to show what future opportunities this fourth generation of nuclear reactors will offer, but also what challenges will be associated with it. About the author Prof. Dr. -Ing. Thomas Schulenberg studied physics and mechanical engineering and received his doctorate in the field of sodium-cooled reactors. During his fourteen-year industrial career, he developed gas turbines for conventional power plants. Since 2000, Prof. Schulenberg was the head of the Institute for Nuclear and Energy Technology at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, where he lectured on conventional power plant technology as well as nuclear power plant technology. As a member of the steering committee for fourth-generation water-cooled reactors, he was actively involved in the Generation IV International Forum for many years.
Nuclear Energy
Author: Edward A. Friedman
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 2025-07-21
Questions of energy policy are among the most central and consequential of any confronting society today. While the role of nuclear energy is key, there is little understanding and much misinformation regarding its nature and its potential. Impeding the emergence of informed discourse on this topic is the lack of clear, objective information. Nuclear Energy: Boom, Bust and Emerging Renaissance helps answer the question of "What role can nuclear energy play in meeting the global warming challenge?" Currently, the general public has little access to developments that have been made in nuclear energy technology since the accidents of Chernobyl and Fukushima. These new designs promise to come to fruition around 2030, as the 28th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP28) witnessed a call for a tripling of the use of nuclear power by 2050. Edward A. Friedman places the troubling issues of nuclear power into both historical and forward-looking contexts, first by exploring the consequences since the first reactor was connected to a public electrical grid, and then by envisioning radically new designs that promise a safe path toward achieving net zero carbon emissions. With non-technical explanations, this book provides insight of how nuclear reactor technology holds the promise of making significant contributions to the struggle against global warming, and why dozens of nations are engaged in innovation and expansion of nuclear technology. Timely and insightful, Nuclear Energy will appeal to the lay reader while also serving as a college level text for both non-science students studying energy policy or sustainability and students of science and technology.
Climate Crisis Fun Facts!
It’s time for Climate Crisis Fun Fact Number One: There is no Climate Crisis. The anthropogenic CO₂ doomsday narrative is a malignant mainstream myth. The weather is not your fault. The climate (weather over time) isn’t either. Yes, the climate is changing. It is changing because it has never not changed. But, no, the “pollutant” CO₂, anthropogenic or otherwise, is not driving this change. The only thing CO₂ is driving is plant growth. The information you are being fed is distorted. The causes for climate change are natural. They are natural variabilities, cycles we do not yet fully understand. How do we know this? We know this because of the historical records our ancestors have left us. We know this because of the physical evidence Nature has left us from the vast, pre-industrial past. We know this because of the changes in Earth's movements through space. What we are experiencing has all happened before, only it was much more drastic. This is why we don’t need to worry about slowing down or stopping something we have been conditioned to fret about. These changes can’t be stopped and we can’t “save the planet” because the planet doesn’t need saving. We only need to see how we can best adapt to these changes, something humankind has already been doing for countless generations. But how could this be, you ask? How could the the world have reached a “consensus” that CO₂ is an existential threat when it isn’t? Because “consensus” is a political, not a scientific term and those who benefit from this imaginary doomsday threat have also control public opinion. Certain professions, institutions and industries benefit either directly or indirectly from the CO₂ panic plot and actively manipulate what we see, read and hear. They do this by exploiting three well-known human weaknesses: The first one is fear. Fear is easily planted in the minds of the uninformed. Unfortunately, most of us are highly uninformed. Worse, if no real danger is present, the human mind will proactively seek out things to fear until it finds one (thanks, evolutionary process). We are highly receptive to potential danger and apocalyptic climate hysteria satisfies this psychological predisposition. Our second weakness is our need to conform. Being firmly rooted in strict social hierarchies, humans have a primal need to belong. This need is so great that we would rather defy what our own senses tell us than be banned as a social outcast. Weakness number three is our anthropocentrism. Humans innately feel they are the center of the universe. They also sense they can somehow control Nature. Neither being true, this odd mindset only leads to hubris, narcissism and harmful decision-making. We lack humility, in other words. But humility is a good thing. And this book is an exercise in humility. It is a modest attempt to confront today’s presumptuous CO₂ Climate Crisis “consensus” with uncommon common sense. It is a compilation of well-documented facts and unconventional observations that question today’s “climate science” status quo. It will help reveal how a lack of critical thinking, extreme bias, heavy-handed fear mongering, mass indoctrination methods and quasi-religious fervor have trapped us in a straitjacket of Orwellian groupthink. We need to remind ourselves that only the individual can think. No one can force you to succumb to mass delusion if you choose not to. People who succumb to apocalyptic climate fear are the only ones in danger because popular hysteria is the plague of our age, not CO₂. Defend yourself by changing the way you think. May the skepticism be with you.