Description
The text provides a critical review of the progress of nuclear power so far and asks if any of the technologies will be successful, or if nuclear fission will prove to be a dead end as an energy option. Elliott looks first at the early history of nuclear innovation in the 1950s and moves on to the present, when, with economic problems facing the current generation of water-cooled nuclear plants, some of the other older ideas are being revisited. These include liquid sodium cooled fast reactors, molten fluoride salt reactors, high temperature helium cooled reactors, and versions of some of these, as well as water cooled plants, developed as small modular reactors.
Key Features:
- Provides an authoritative and critical overview of the progress and prospects of nuclear power
- Sets the nuclear debate in its full historical context
- Considers nuclear fission and fusion
- Shows how innovation may not always prosper
- Lays out the key choice ahead: nuclear or not nuclear
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