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IAEA again raises global nuclear power projections
Noting recent momentum behind nuclear power, the International Atomic Energy Agency has revised up its projections for the expansion of nuclear power, estimating that global nuclear operational capacity will more than double by 2050—reaching 2.6 times the 2024 level—with small modular reactors expected to play a pivotal role in this high-case scenario.
IAEA director general Rafael Mariano Grossi announced the new projections, contained in the annual report Energy, Electricity, and Nuclear Power Estimates for the Period up to 2050 at the 69th IAEA General Conference in Vienna.
In the report’s high-case scenario, nuclear electrical generating capacity is projected to increase to from 377 GW at the end of 2024 to 992 GW by 2050. In a low-case scenario, capacity rises 50 percent, compared with 2024, to 561 GW. SMRs are projected to account for 24 percent of the new capacity added in the high case and for 5 percent in the low case.
Folkmar A. Schwarz, Heinz E. Tischer, Ronald N. Drake, William S. Rickman, Nadine D. Holder, James B. Strand
Nuclear Technology | Volume 58 | Number 1 | July 1982 | Pages 29-35
Technical Paper | Fuel Cycle | doi.org/10.13182/NT82-A32954
Articles are hosted by Taylor and Francis Online.
For several years, the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) have engaged in a successful cooperative program to develop high temperature gas-cooled reactor (HTGR) fuel cycle technology. Recent tests in reprocessing pilot plant facilities at General Atomic Company have demonstrated the feasibility of performing HTGR head-end unit operations for both spherical (German) and block-type (American) fuel elements in a single process line. Because of an unexpected high fines generation and elutriation rate, extended fluidized bed primary burning of FRG fuel material was impossible to accomplish with the burner system and operating procedures optimized for U.S. fuel burning. Operational modification, including startup with a carbon-poor bed and reduction of the fluid-izing velocity, resulted in dramatic improvements in FRG fuel-burning behavior and allowed extended processing campaigns. Additional modifications to the fines recycle system and burner are recommended to optimize the system for processing of FRG fuels.
