Naslov
Carbon Emission Impact for Energy Strategy in which All Non-CCS Coal Power Plants Are Replaced by Nuclear Power Plants

Autori
Knapp, Vladimir ; Matijević, Mario ; Pevec, Dubravko ; Lale, Dinka

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
11th International Conference of the Croatian Nuclear Society Proceedings / Šimić, Zdenko ; Tomšić, Željko ; Grgić, Davor - Zagreb : Hrvatsko nuklearno društvo, 2016, 87-1

ISBN
978-953-55224-8-5

Skup
11th International Conference of the Croatian Nuclear Society

Mjesto i datum
Zadar, Hrvatska, 05.06.2016. - 08.06.2016

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Global warming; Uranium resources; Carbon emission; Energy strategy

Sažetak
The Paris climate conference recognized the urgency of measures to mitigate climate changes and achieved an agreement on the targets for future decades. We wish to show that advanced LWR initiated nuclear strategy can offer us long term carbon free energy future. Human action is putting carbon dioxide into atmosphere where it resides effectively for hundreds of years. We are forced to look ahead on the same time scale but we have much shorter time to act as we almost used up the quota of emission of carbon before disaster would be unavoidable, as shown in paper by Meinshausen et al. and IPCC report. We have to change our ways of relying on fossil fuel dramatically in the next few decades. It would be a change in use of fossil fuel which cannot be achieved with usual business practices. Arising awareness of reality and threat of global warming in parallel with fading promise of nuclear fusion and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technology, should convince the public to accept nuclear fission contribution to climate change mitigation, at least for the climate critical years up to 2065. Nuclear fission has the additional value of supporting intermittent sources by covering the base load consumption. It can be available now, with proven reactors, such as advanced LWR reactors. Nuclear strategy in this paper outlines a proposal to replace all non-CCS coal power plants with nuclear power plants in the period 2025-2065. Assuming once through advanced LWR technology, one would need nuclear capacity of 1600 GW to replace coal power plants in the period 2025-2065. Corresponding reduction of emission would amount to 11.8 Gt of CO2. This energy strategy would reduce carbon emission by approximately 22% in the year 2065. The annual uranium requirements and the cumulative uranium requirements, as well as the annual plutonium production and cumulative plutonium production for the proposed nuclear strategy are determined. A possibility of larger reduction of carbon emission by nuclear fission energy before the end of the century is also discussed.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Elektrotehnika

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