Nuclear Power in an Age of UncertaintyCongress of the U.S., Office of Technology Assessment, 1984 - 293 من الصفحات |
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... growth , costs , regulation , and public accept- ance to evaluate how these factors affect nuclear power's future . We reviewed research directions which could improve conventional light water reactor technology and op- portunities to ...
... growth , costs , regulation , and public accept- ance to evaluate how these factors affect nuclear power's future . We reviewed research directions which could improve conventional light water reactor technology and op- portunities to ...
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... growth , very high capital costs , operating problems , increasing reg- ulatory requirements , and growing public opposition . If all these risks were inherent to nuclear power , there would be little concern over its demise . However ...
... growth , very high capital costs , operating problems , increasing reg- ulatory requirements , and growing public opposition . If all these risks were inherent to nuclear power , there would be little concern over its demise . However ...
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... growth has been very low over the last decade ( in fact , it was negative in 1982 ) , there is no assurance that this trend will continue . Even growth that is quite modest by historical stand- ards would mandate new plants - that have ...
... growth has been very low over the last decade ( in fact , it was negative in 1982 ) , there is no assurance that this trend will continue . Even growth that is quite modest by historical stand- ards would mandate new plants - that have ...
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... growth may continue to fall below projections . A utility may commit large sums of capital to a plant only to find part way through construction that it is not needed . If the plant has to be canceled , the utility and its shareholders ...
... growth may continue to fall below projections . A utility may commit large sums of capital to a plant only to find part way through construction that it is not needed . If the plant has to be canceled , the utility and its shareholders ...
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... growth rate of electricity demand . Demand growth has averaged about 2.5 percent annual- ly since 1973 , compared to about 7.0 percent from 1960 to 1972. Utility executives contem- plating the construction of long leadtime coal or ...
... growth rate of electricity demand . Demand growth has averaged about 2.5 percent annual- ly since 1973 , compared to about 7.0 percent from 1960 to 1972. Utility executives contem- plating the construction of long leadtime coal or ...
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الصفحة 154 - ... provide adequate protection to the health and safety of the public.
الصفحة 172 - Individual members of the public should be provided a level of protection from the consequences of nuclear power plant operation such that individuals bear no significant additional risk to life and health.
الصفحة 8 - Administrator to the House Committee on Science and Technology and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources upon the request of either such committee.
الصفحة 91 - PWR steam generators have shown evidence of corrosion-induced wastage, cracking, reduction in tube diameter, and vibration-induced fatigue cracks. The primary concern is the capability of degraded tubes to maintain their integrity during normal operation and under accident conditions with adequate safety margins.
الصفحة 77 - The Future of Electric Power in America: Economic Supply for Economic Growth," DOE/PE-0045, US Department of Energy, June 1983 (B).
الصفحة 173 - The risk to an average individual in the vicinity of a nuclear power plant of prompt fatalities that might result from reactor accidents should not exceed one-tenth of one percent (0.1 percent) of the sum of prompt fatality risks resulting from other accidents to which members of the US population are generally exposed.
الصفحة 78 - 8th Annual Review of Overall Reliability and Adequacy of the North American Bulk Power Systems
الصفحة 172 - Societal risks to life and health from nuclear power plant operation should be comparable to or less than the risks of generating electricity by viable competing technologies and should not be a significant addition to other societal risks.
الصفحة 285 - Load factor. Load factor is the ratio of the average load over a designated period of time to the connected load.