A Nuclear Solution to Climate Change?

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dc.contributor.authorFetter, Steve
dc.contributor.authorSailor, William C.
dc.contributor.authorBodansky, David
dc.contributor.authorBraun, Chaim
dc.contributor.authorvan der Zwaan, Bob
dc.date.accessioned2007-05-07T19:56:01Z
dc.date.available2007-05-07T19:56:01Z
dc.date.issued2000-05-19
dc.description.abstractThe U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change calls for the stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that would prevent dangerous changes in climate. An ambitious target would be stabilization at an equivalent doubling of the preindustrial CO2 concentration. To achieve this, fossil-fuel carbon emissions in 2050 should not exceed their current level, despite an expected doubling or tripling in world demand for energy. Lacking a crystal ball that tells us the future, we simply select one possible scenario that achieves the emissions target. We assume that by 2050, world population and average per-capita energy consumption each rise by 50%, with annual world primary energy consumption reaching 900 EJ (exajoules, 1018 joules). A roughly equal contribution of 300 EJ each is assumed for conventional fossil fuels, for renewable and "decarbonized" fossil fuel sources, and for nuclear fission. This is a challenging scenario, especially because restraining the increase in average per-capita energy consumption in the face of the economic aspirations of developing countries will require substantial improvements in energy efficiency.en
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dc.identifier.citationWilliam C. Sailor, David Bodansky, Chaim Braun, Steve Fetter and Bob van der Zwaan, "A Nuclear Solution to Climate Change?" Science, Vol. 288 (19 May 2000), pp. 1177-1178en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/4362
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherAmerican Association for the Advancement of Scienceen
dc.relation.isAvailableAtSchool of Public Policyen_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtPublic Policyen_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_us
dc.rights.licenseThis is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of the AAAS for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in SCIENCE, 288, (19 May 2000), doi:10.1126/science.288.5469.1177 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.288.5469.1177. (Broken Link)en_us
dc.subjectenergy consumptionen
dc.subjectnuclear poweren
dc.subjectnuclear expansionen
dc.subjectnuclear economicsen
dc.subjectnuclear reactor safetyen
dc.subjectnuclear waste disposalen
dc.subjectnuclear proliferationen
dc.titleA Nuclear Solution to Climate Change?en
dc.typeArticleen

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