scholarly journals IFMIF-DONES as Paradigm of Institutional Funding in the Way towards Sustainable Energy

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (23) ◽  
pp. 13093
Author(s):  
Rafael Esteban ◽  
Zaida Troya ◽  
Enrique Herrera-Viedma ◽  
Antonio Peña-García
Keyword(s):  
Energy Production ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Key Points ◽  
Main Target ◽  
The Future ◽  
Institutional Funding ◽  
The Impact

Although actions promoting sustainable energy production and consumption have been widely approached in the literature, the management of the big scientific projects devoted to these actions have not been considered as a matter of study from the perspective of sustainable development, but almost exclusively from the scientific or technical ones. Experiences all over the world are increasingly demonstrating that the impact of the project phase is more critical than expected. In this sense, the joint international research on clean and more efficient nuclear power, especially fusion, is currently focused on two large projects: ITER and IFMIF-DONES. Although ITER is step by step advancing, IFMIF-DONES still has a long way before it is actually implemented and its main target (the evaluation of the materials to build the future nuclear fusion reactors) is achieved. In this work, the different steps focused on IFMIF-DONES funding and management planning up to date are analysed and, departing from them, some key points on the future development of the project are proposed.

scholarly journals Renewable Energy Development as a Driver of Economic Growth: Evidence from Multivariate Panel Data Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (8) ◽  
pp. 2418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadia Singh ◽  
Richard Nyuur ◽  
Ben Richmond
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
Developing Economies ◽  
Panel Data Analysis ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Renewable Energy Production ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Impact

Renewable energy is being increasingly touted as the “fuel of the future,” which will help to reconcile the prerogatives of high economic growth and an economically friendly development trajectory. This paper seeks to examine relationships between renewable energy production and economic growth and the differential impact on both developed and developing economies. We employed the Fully Modified Ordinary Least Square (FMOLS) regression model to a sample of 20 developed and developing countries for the period 1995–2016. Our key empirical findings reveal that renewable energy production is associated with a positive and statistically significant impact on economic growth in both developed and developing countries for the period 1995–2016. Our results also show that the impact of renewable energy production on economic growth is higher in developing economies, as compared to developed economies. In developed countries, an increase in renewable energy production leads to a 0.07 per cent rise in output, compared to only 0.05 per cent rise in output for developing countries. These findings have important implications for policymakers and reveal that renewable energy production can offer an environmentally sustainable means of economic growth in the future.

Hazards of Nuclear Fission Power and the Choice of Alternatives

1974 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
John T. Edsall
Keyword(s):  
Energy Production ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Biological Effects ◽  
Nuclear Fission ◽  
The United States ◽  
Radioactive Wastes ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
The Future ◽  
Fission Power

Nuclear fission reactors are widely regarded as the chief energy source of the future. This article holds that the hazards of such reactors, in comparison with other prospective energy sources, are unacceptably high. The biological effects of ionizing radiations, as analyzed in the recent BEIR Report (1972) of a committee of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, are briefly reviewed; the effects include genetic mutations, induction of cancer, and developmental abnormalities. Hazards are encountered at many stages in the process of nuclear power production: in the mining and processing of uranium, in the design and operation of the reactors, and in the handling, shipping, and storage, of the huge quantities of radioactive wastes produced by the reactors. Grave questions have been raised concerning the safety of the emergency core-cooling systems of present reactors; and the planned breeder reactors, which will contain great quantities of plutonium-239, are likely to be even more hazardous. Storage of radioactive wastes, away from all risks of environmental contamination, in order to be acceptable must be secure for about half-a-million years. No place on Earth has yet been found for which such safety can be guaranteed. Hazards of theft, sabotage, and war, are formidable threats to the future of nuclear fission power.Use of fission power is not compulsory; present supplies of coal are adequate for two or three centuries, though its mining and use will require drastic steps to protect the environment, thereby raising costs. Alternative, and far less dangerously polluting, sources of large-scale energy production exist or can be developed: notably solar energy and probably nuclear fusion, where intensive research gives high promise of adequate systems for large-scale energy production within 20–30 years. Geothermal energy, though more limited in amount, is also promising. Great savings can also be made by reducing the extravagant use of energy, especially in such countries as the United States; and various conservation measures are indicated.

scholarly journals Assessment of extreme hydrological conditions in the Bothnian Bay, Baltic Sea, and the impact of the nuclear power plant “Hanhikivi-1” on the local thermal regime

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 265-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton Y. Dvornikov ◽  
Stanislav D. Martyanov ◽  
Vladimir A. Ryabchenko ◽  
Tatjana R. Eremina ◽  
Alexey V. Isaev ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
Nuclear Power Plant ◽  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Extreme Values ◽  
Strong Increase ◽  
External Forcing ◽  
The Future ◽  
Bothnian Bay ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. The results of the study aimed to assess the influence of future nuclear power plant Hanhikivi-1 upon the local thermal conditions in the Bothnian Bay in the Baltic Sea are presented. A number of experiments with different numerical models were also carried out in order to estimate the extreme hydro-meteorological conditions in the area of the construction. The numerical experiments were fulfilled both with analytically specified external forcing and with real external forcing for 2 years: a cold year (2010) and a warm year (2014). The study has shown that the extreme values of sea level and water temperature and the characteristics of wind waves and sea ice in the vicinity of the future nuclear power plant can be significant and sometimes catastrophic. Permanent release of heat into the marine environment from an operating nuclear power plant will lead to a strong increase in temperature and the disappearance of ice cover within a 2 km vicinity of the station. These effects should be taken into account when assessing local climate changes in the future.

The impact of sustainable energy production on land use in Britain through to 2050

2009 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. S284-S292 ◽  
Author(s):  
David C. Howard ◽  
Richard A. Wadsworth ◽  
Jeanette W. Whitaker ◽  
Nick Hughes ◽  
Robert G.H. Bunce
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
Sustainable Energy ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals The Analysis of Total Amount of Energy Consumption and Structure in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 83-89
Author(s):  
Liu Hua ◽  
Guan Ye-Qing
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Production ◽  
Renewable Energy Sources ◽  
Energy Sources ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Future

This paper built up GM(1,1) models for energy production and consumption in China. Then predicted and analyzed total amount of energy production and consumption in China as well as the structure of energy. The study showed that GM(1,1) model can simulate and predict the trend of the total amount of energy consumption and the structure well. In the future, the structure of energy consumption will be optimized. The proportion of coal and oil will decrease and the proportion of gas and renewable energy sources will increase in order to fill the gap.

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