New Directions in Nuclear Energy : Innovation and Opportunities in Fission and Fusion for Global Decarbonization.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foss, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear energy.

Nuclear fusion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (744 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chantilly : Elsevier Science & Technology, 2026.

Summary:

New Directions in Nuclear Energy: Innovation and Opportunities in Fission and Fusion for Global Decarbonization presents up-to-date developments and outlooks for nuclear energy, with a focus on real-world applications.

Contents:

Front Cover

New Directions in Nuclear Energy

New Directions in Nuclear Energy: Innovation and Opportunities in Fission and Fusion for Global Decarbonization

Copyright

Contents

Contributors

Foreword: Global Need for Nuclear Energy

Acronyms

1 - Introduction∗

1.1 Clean energy requirements

1.2 State of the nuclear industry

1.3 Nuclear energy technologies

1.3.1 Where does nuclear energy come from?

1.3.2 Fission reactor technologies

1.3.3 Fusion reactor technologies

1.4 Structure of the book

1.4.1 What role can nuclear energy play in the future?

1.4.2 What are the primary challenges and opportunities ahead?

1.4.3 How much progress has been made so far?

AI disclosure

References

2 - Nuclear for UN Sustainable Development Goals and ESG investment∗

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Nuclear power's role in achieving UN SDGs

2.2.1 Introduction to UN SDGs

2.2.2 Core contributions of nuclear power: SDGs 7 and 13

2.2.2.1 SDG 7: Affordable and clean energy

The evolving landscape of power systems and energy markets

Nuclear's role in the future low-carbon energy mix

2.2.2.2 SDG 13: Climate action

2.2.3 Broader benefits of nuclear energy for other SDGs

2.2.3.1 SDG 3: Good health and well-being

2.2.3.2 SDG 2: Zero hunger and SDG 6: Clean water

2.2.3.3 SDG 8: Decent work and economic growth and SDG 1: No poverty

2.3 Attracting ESG investments for nuclear new-build projects

2.3.1 Introduction to ESG frameworks

2.3.2 ESG taxonomies in facilitating climate finance

2.3.3 Unlocking access to alternative finance for nuclear new-build projects

2.3.3.1 Climate finance

2.3.3.2 Islamic finance

2.3.3.3 The future of ESG

2.3.3.4 Advancing nuclear energy in an evolving ESG context

2.3.3.5 Environmental stewardship

Air emissions

Land use

Waste

Materials use.

Mining impacts

Water

2.3.3.6 Social responsibility

Energy affordability

Safety

Nonproliferation

Supply chain

Labor standards and worker safety

Jobs and incomes

2.4 Governance

2.5 Conclusions

2.6 Disclosure: Use of AI-assisted writing technologies

3 - Transforming nuclear delivery for terawatt-scale deployment∗

3.1 The nuclear value proposition: ten terawatts in ten years

3.1.1 Energy security and access

3.1.2 Strategic vision for energy transformation

3.1.3 Energy landscape challenges

3.2 The nuclear value proposition

3.2.1 Repurposing existing infrastructure

3.2.2 The heat box advantage

3.2.3 South Korea's nuclear success: A model for fleet deployment

3.2.4 The Barakah success story: Exporting the Korean model

3.3 From project to product: manufacturing at planetary scale

3.3.1 The planetary scale of modern manufacturing

3.3.2 Heat boxes designed for manufacturing

3.3.3 Transformative scale and speed

3.3.4 Revolutionary economics

3.4 Meeting industry needs: Creating a market signal

3.4.1 Major industry demand signals

3.4.2 Standardized architectures and digital tools

3.4.3 Data center revolution: The Open Compute Project

3.4.4 Design for manufacturing and assembly

3.4.5 Product-based licensing accelerated by AI

3.4.6 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission developments

3.5 Financially attractive project models

3.5.1 The power of integration

3.6 Deployment pathways and applications

3.6.1 Repowering coal plants

3.6.2 Innovative applications for global energy needs

3.6.2.1 Production of ammonia for shipping fuel

3.6.2.2 Synthetic fuels: A critical pathway for hard-to-decarbonize sectors

3.6.2.3 Production of clean synthetic jet fuel

3.6.2.4 Production of power, ammonia, and desalinated water.

3.7 Powering Africa's digital transformation

3.7.1 Africa's digital economy: A market in transformation

3.7.2 Persistent energy infrastructure challenges

3.7.3 Heat box deployment: A transformative opportunity

3.8 On-site delivery to large energy users

3.9 Conclusion: A vision for abundant, clean, and affordable energy

Further reading

4 - Broadening the core of nuclear engineering education: Creativity, civic engagement, and youth participation to support ...

4.1 Introduction

4.1.1 Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences

4.1.2 Program in Technical Communication

4.2 Socially engaged design of nuclear energy technologies (ENGR 100.910)

4.3 Nuclear Technology, Policy, and Society (NERS 490)

4.4 NERS 250 arts integration

4.4.1 Harper Academy

4.5 Reflections across the educational offerings

4.5.1 The role and place of creativity and imagination in engineering education

4.5.2 Public engagement as a necessary component of engineering education and the energy technology design process

4.5.3 Suffusing ethics across the engineering education

4.5.4 Teaching engineering stewardship as a fundamental goal of engineering education

4.5.5 Supporting students in bringing their full selves to the classroom

4.5.6 Toward a sociotechnical vision of engineering education

5 - Investing in nuclear∗

5.1 Introduction

5.2 The business case for investing in nuclear

5.2.1 Attractive aspects of nuclear sector investments

5.2.2 Detractive aspects and challenges of nuclear sector investments

5.3 Multidimensional solutions for unlocking nuclear capital investments

5.3.1 The role of a nuclear-focused multilateral bank to catalyze investment and promote derisking and scaling of the nuclear sec.

5.3.1 IBNI as the facilitator of global demand aggregation to accelerate new investments nuclear technologies

5.4 Concluding remarks related to nuclear investments

6 - Nuclear energy's potential role in economic sectors∗

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Potential role of nuclear energy for decarbonization

6.2.1 Energy vector needs for decarbonization

6.2.2 Overall benefits/challenges of nuclear energy

6.3 Review of nuclear applications

6.3.1 Electrical power

6.3.1.1 Summary of experience

6.3.1.2 LCOE comparison

6.3.2 Process heat applications

6.3.2.1 Summary of experience

6.3.2.1.1 District heating

6.3.2.1.2 Desalination

6.3.2.1.3 Industrial applications

6.3.2.2 LCOH comparison

6.3.3 Shipping

6.3.3.1 Benefits and challenges of nuclear application in the shipping industry

6.3.3.2 Summary of experience

6.3.4 Hydrogen and synfuel production

6.3.4.1 Summary of experience

6.3.4.2 LCOH2 comparison

6.3.5 Direct air capture

6.3.5.1 Atmospheric CO2 capture

6.3.5.2 Summary of experience

6.3.5.3 LCOD comparison

6.4 Target applications for advanced nuclear reactors

6.5 Conclusions

Acknowledgment

7 - Nuclear for coal plant repowering∗

7.1 Introduction

7.1.1 Advantages

7.1.2 Challenges

7.1.3 Preparation

7.2 Country case studies

7.2.1 United States

7.2.2 Poland

7.2.3 China

7.2.4 Canada

7.3 Conclusions

8 - Nuclear for energy security in the generation mix∗

8.1 Prelude - perception to reality

8.1.1 Generation mix in the power industry

8.1.2 Premise for establishing trend toward SMR in the generation mix

8.1.3 Perception

8.1.4 Reality

8.1.5 Changing perception-establishing reality

8.2 Introduction

8.3 Way forward for SMR

8.3.1 Advanced nuclear deployment-timeliness.

8.3.1.1 Timeliness-development steps to deployment

8.3.1.2 Timeliness-installation costs

8.3.2 On-site construction costs

8.3.3 Managing expectations

8.3.4 Building credibility and experience

8.4 Transmission capacity

8.4.1 Transmission capacity

8.4.1.1 Lead times

8.4.1.2 Transmission costs

8.4.1.3 Reliability considerations for transmission planning

8.4.1.4 Transmission constraints

8.5 AI/datacenters-demand for power 24/7

8.6 Microgrids-value of early stage SMR deployments

8.6.1 SMR in a campus microgrid-case study

8.7 Power system engineering - grid stability and reliability

8.7.1 Stability and reliability requirements

8.7.2 System inertia-synchronous generation

8.7.3 Inertia characteristics of nuclear energy and variable renewables

8.7.4 Reactive power

8.7.5 Synchronous condensers and IBR (Nøland et al., 2024a)

8.8 Challenge for advanced nuclear energy

8.8.1 SMR design

8.8.2 SMR technology

8.8.3.1 Toward a balanced generation mix

8.8.3.2 Grid stability and control

8.8.3.3 Small modular reactors and operational flexibility

8.9 Reliability requirements and standards

8.10 Energy security-fuel supply and refueling cycles

8.10.1 SMR fuel supply

8.10.2 Refueling (Greene, 2016)

8.10.3 Natural gas supply-example from Texas cold winter event

8.10.4 Advanced nuclear-resource for energy security

8.11 Generation mix, capacity, and reliability

8.11.1 Resource mix changes

8.11.1.1 Energy storage

8.11.2 Generation resource mix in 2023 versus 2033

8.11.3 Inverter-Based Resources

8.11.4 Dispatchable generation

8.12 Forecasts and planning

9 - Nuclear demonstrations in North America∗

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Definition of a demonstration reactor

9.3 Kairos Power Hermes reactor

9.4 Molten chloride reactor experiment.

9.5 Conclusions.

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ISBN:

0-443-33472-2

9780443334726

OCLC:

1569121014