Nuclear Power as a Possible Response to Climate Change
Nuclear Power as a Possible Response to Climate Change

Summary/Abstract: Providing energy for socioeconomic development in the forms and quantities required, at affordable prices and with acceptable environmental impacts has been one of the main concerns over the past half century. There are strong indications that this is likely to remain the case for the next half century as well, albeit with some noteworthy additional factors. Only two examples are mentioned here. First, while people use over 20 MWh/person per year in some countries, about 1.5 billion people do not have access to electricity and this hampers their development. Second, while cheap fossil energy sources have fuelled development in the past, there is increasing concern that continuing reliance on those without adding appropriate equipment to reduce harmful emissions leads to severe environmental changes, including global climate change. The double challenge is to resolve the energy supply issue without exacerbating the climate change problem. Yet these are only two items on the extensive and diverse list of energy-related challenges that policymakers, industrial stakeholders and citizens at large face around the world today.

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