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Foreword | p. 4 |
Introduction | p. 7 |
Energy use | |
Sources of energy | p. 12 |
Sustainability of energy | p. 12 |
Energy demand | p. 13 |
Energy supply | p. 13 |
Changes in energy demand and supply | p. 14 |
Future energy demand and supply | p. 16 |
Electricity today and tomorrow | |
Electricity demand | p. 22 |
Electricity supply | p. 23 |
Fuels for electricity generation today | p. 25 |
Provision for future base-load electricity | p. 26 |
Renewable energy sources | p. 30 |
Coal and uranium compared | p. 32 |
Energy inputs to nuclear electricity | p. 33 |
Economic factors | p. 34 |
Nuclear power | |
Mass to energy in the reactor core | p. 38 |
Nuclear power reactors | p. 39 |
Uranium availability | p. 43 |
Nuclear weapons as a source of fuel | p. 45 |
Thorium as a nuclear fuel | p. 46 |
Accelerator-driven systems | p. 47 |
Physics of a nuclear reactor | p. 48 |
The "front end" of the nuclear fuel cycle | |
Mining and milling of uranium ore | p. 56 |
The nuclear fuel cycle | p. 58 |
Box: Uranium enrichment | |
Advanced reactors | p. 64 |
High temperature gas-cooled reactors | p. 68 |
Fast neutron reactors | p. 69 |
Very small nuclear power plants | p. 73 |
Thorium cycle | p. 74 |
The "back end" of the nuclear fuel cycle | |
Nuclear "wastes" | p. 76 |
Reprocessing used fuel | p. 79 |
High-level wastes from reprocessing | p. 81 |
Box: Transporting radioactive materials | |
Storage and disposal of used fuel as "waste" | p. 85 |
Disposal of solidified wastes | p. 86 |
Decommissioning reactors | p. 90 |
Other nuclear energy applications | |
Hydrogen for transport | p. 94 |
Desalination | p. 98 |
Marine propulsion | p. 100 |
Space | p. 103 |
Research reactors for radioisotopes | p. 106 |
Environment, health and safety issues | |
Greenhouse gas emissions | p. 112 |
Other environmental effects | p. 113 |
Health and environmental effects | p. 115 |
Radiation | p. 117 |
Reactor safety | p. 120 |
Avoiding weapons proliferation | |
International cooperation | p. 128 |
International nuclear safeguards | p. 130 |
Fissile materials | p. 132 |
Recycling military uranium and plutonium for electricity | p. 136 |
Australian and Canadian nuclear safeguards policies | p. 137 |
History of nuclear energy | |
Exploring the nature of the atom | p. 140 |
Harnessing nuclear fission | p. 141 |
Nuclear physics in Russia | p. 142 |
Conceiving the atomic bomb | p. 143 |
Developing the concepts | p. 144 |
The Manhattan Project | p. 145 |
The Soviet bomb | p. 146 |
Revival of the "nuclear boiler" | p. 148 |
Nuclear energy goes commercial | p. 149 |
The nuclear power brown-out | p. 150 |
Nuclear renaissance | p. 151 |
Appendices | |
Ionizing radiation and how it is measured | p. 152 |
Some radioactive decay series | p. 155 |
Environmental and ethical aspects of radioactive waste management | p. 156 |
Some useful references | p. 160 |
Glossary | p. 161 |
Index | p. 167 |
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