nuclear energy

Dhruv Dharamshi, Jeet Sah, Jagriti Dhingra, Sonakshi singh Pundir, Nuclear Engineering students at Amity University, India: The idea is - to unite all students in the nuclear community on a single platform – to form the World Nuclear Student Body (WNSB). Given that the nuclear community is a small one, the project is realistic, with innumerable possibilities. Apart from the networking and educational aspects of such a platform, it would offer a level playing field for students to display their skills at an international level.

Many people are sounding the alarm about the use of fossil fuels on the argument that the CO2 they emit will cause catastrophic global warming, even a tipping point near 400 ppm total atmospheric concentration. We are near 400 ppm, 0.04%, now. There has been practically no global warming since 2000, in spite of significant increased use of fossil fuels. Others say that CO2 from fossil fuels is a small part of atmospheric greenhouse gasses and that drastic actions like stopping use of fossil fuels, carbon cap and trade, carbon capture and sequestration would be catastrophic for people who are suffering because of lack of electricity. This article by Yehoshua Socol in Israel and Moshe Yanovskiy in Russia asks the question: "Is global warming argument good for nuclear industry?" It is a very important question for deciding how to promote nuclear power.

Michel Gay: L’énergie nucléaire permet de garantir à moindre coût la sécurité d’approvisionnement en électricité de la France. Elle doit être préparée pour des scénarios plus optimistes de redressement industriel, de croissance démographique, et d’électrification de nouveaux moyens (transport, chauffage par pompe à chaleur,…).

Michel Gay: Certains antinucléaires ont incontestablement peur. Ils sont persuadés que l'énergie nucléaire est un danger parce que des idéologues les ont scandaleusement effrayés. Leur peur est réelle mais déconnectée de la réalité.

Pat Boone, Tom Tamarkin: This letter to Pope Francis is about Anthropogenic Global Warming and our energy choices: wind, solar, fossil fuels, and nuclear with focus on nuclear fusion. Tragically the AGW concept has created corrupt conditions. This represents the worst side of economic imperialism: monies being taken from the people and redistributed to governments, institutions and corporations based on politics as opposed to science and solid economics.

Joseph Lassiter, Senior Fellow, Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired at Harvard Business School..The barriers to rapid progress in next-generation nuclear power are certainly not technical and probably not even economic. The greatest barriers today are in outdated nuclear regulations.

Kelvin Kemm, CEO of Nuclear Africa. is focusing on helping the economies of South Africa, countries around Africa and similar countries in Asia and South America develop sound plans for nuclear energy. This is the home page of Nuclear Africa. It has excellent articles by outstanding scientists and engineers for easy reading by the public around the world.

Kelvin Kemm, CEO of Nuclear Africa, is providing excellent leadership for the future of nuclear power in South Africa, the African Continent and countries around the world. His website has many news articles and brochures of interest to the general public.

Hooman Peimani is Head of the Energy Security Division at the Energy Studies Institute, National University of Singapore. Reflecting global realities, Asian nations have long considered nuclear energy as a necessary component of the region’s sustainable energy mix. Proponents of a continued use of fossil fuels refer to the limits of renewables in providing reliable base-load power to discourage switching from fossil energy to non-fossil energy. Nuclear energy in its current state can provide large scale power on a reliable basis.

Geert de Vries: Energy-related information for Africa is scarce. This relates to information about installed systems, potential sources, transmission and distribution grid penetration, and current use. When we consider the population served by electricity we are including grid-connected as well as off-grid decentralised installations, which are usually diesel.

John Dendahl and John Shanahan, Board of Directors members for Go Nuclear. Presentation to the Colorado School of Mines: Nuclear Energy: Past and Future

Ward Whicker, Emeritus Professor of Radioecology - Global energy demands are at an unprecedented high and still growing. Global demand for electricity is projected to grow over 70 percent by 2035. Finding energy sources to power the world's growing population and economy and meet that demand cleanly and responsibly is part of an on-going debate. In spite of many advantages, some people have concerns about nuclear power generation. These fears trace largely to misguided assumptions concerning the actual environmental and health consequences from accidents at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and, most recently, Fukushima.

SONE, Supporters of Nuclear Energy has written a review of Wade Allison's book, "Nuclear Is For Life."The activity level 2,000 million years ago was more than twice what it is today. Homo sapiens appeared a mere 100,000 and 200,000 years ago and have always lived within a radioactive environment. Safety regulations based on As Low As Reasonably Achievable (ALARA) are not fit for purpose and are dangerous to the economy, the environment and to life and limb. A justifiable safety threshold should be set as high as to do no harm or As High As Relatively Safe (AHARS) rather than ALARA.

Holman Jenkins, writer for the Wall Street Journal, Wade Allison, Emeritus Professor of Physics, Oxford University. A paradigm shift is necessary to facilitate use of nuclear power. This involve stopping use of unscientific radiation guidelines using the Linear No Threshold Hypothesis and basing radiation protection on long observed and documented facts about effects of radiation on living organisms. This article is written so everyone can understand. If we used the Linear No Threshold Hypothesis for guide lines in the rest of our lives, we would not drive cars or take baby aspirin, etc.

Richard McDonald, is a member of the Board of Directors for EFN-USA and a retired research physicist from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. The position and goal of EFN-USA is to show how nuclear power can directly or indirectly address environmental problems while providing energy to maintain developed countries and energy to advance developing countries. Depletion of conventional oil, lack of sufficient potable water, and famine drive conflicts among nations, and war can be the greatest environmental threat of them all.

Katie Mohr, manufacturing.net - This report shows projected world energy use for coal, oil, natural gas, renewables, hydro and nuclear out to 2035 with modest growth for nuclear power. The intense debate of catastrophic man-made global warming has to face reality and follow the Scientific Method. The predicted catastrophes of global warming are man-made. One glance at these forecasts for fossil fuels shows that these levels of energy use can continue only with fossil fuels. Nuclear must grow and be well managed.

Katie Mohr, manufacturing.net - This report shows projected world energy use for coal, oil, natural gas, renewables, hydro and nuclear out to 2035, including modest growth for nuclear power. All energy sources require sound management, design, operations, and maintenance to minimize accidents. Plentiful energy is important to maintain modern standards of living and to improve the standard of living for the poorer half of the world. This can help the environment, nature and biodiversity.

Andrew Kenny, nuclear engineer,: If the world were ruled by rational concern for human welfare and the environment, nuclear power would be the first choice for baseload electricity.Nuclear power has by far the best safety record of any energy source.