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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.
Erik Johansson
Nuclear Technology | Volume 80 | Number 2 | February 1988 | Pages 324-336
Technical Paper | Advanced Light Water Reactor / Fission Reactor | doi.org/10.13182/NT88-A34055
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Physics calculations have been performed for repeated plutonium recycling in tight pressurized water reactor lattices. These calculations made use of the transport theory code CASMO combined with a 70-group nuclear data library variant that was created recently. The calculational model, which performs well for normal thermal reactors, was tested against measured data for tight lattices from the Swiss reactor PROTEUS. The test results are reasonably good and the model was applied to tight lattice power reactors without any modification. Four reactor systems, three of which contain tight lattices with plutonium recycling, were treated. The fourth one represents recycling in a normal lattice. Calculated results are given for various parameters. Particularly important are the natural uranium savings in the tight lattice systems relative to net consumption in the normal lattice system. The values found are between 10 and 35% for an ∼50-yr operating time for each system. However, in some of the calculations, the void reactivity results are positive. For these cases, there may actually be positive values in reality—especially in the latter part of the time period studied— which would lead to restrictions and somewhat reduced savings.