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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Robert G. Watts
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
520 pages
18h 5m
English
CRC Press
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8
The Future of Energy from Nuclear Fission
Son H. Kim and Temitope Taiwo
8.1 Introduction
Nuclear energy is an important part of our current global energy system,
and contributes to supplying a signicant percentage of the electricity for
many nations around the world. There are 433 commercial nuclear power
reactors operating in 30 countries, with an installed capacity of 367 GWe
as of October 2011 (IAEA PRIS 2011). Nuclear electricity generation totaled
2630 TWh in 2010, representing 14% the world’s electricity generation. The
top ve countries of total installed nuclear capacity are the United States,
France, Japan, Russia, and South Korea ...
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