What is nuclear energy? How do we harness it? Types of radiation - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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What is nuclear energy? How do we harness it?

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Types of radiation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Alfa_beta_gamma_radiation_penetration.svg

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Nuclear chain reaction

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Coal trains in Norfolk, VA

World capacity: 5.5 hopper cars of coal per second

• r 1.5 hopper cars/week of uranium

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https://xkcd.com/1162/

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Source: TVA

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Major Issues

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Chernobyl Health Effects

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Olkiluoto, Finland

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Radiation: Some Key Facts

My day? Well, first I went to the tanning salon. Then I had an appointment at the doctor’s for a CT scan of my back, finally. For lunch, I microwaved some left-

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I rushed down to the pharmacy to get some iodine pills because of Fukushima!

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Ramsar, Iran

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Direct Federal Subsidies in Energy

U.S. Energy Info. Admin. “Direct Federal Financial Interventions and Subsidies in Energy in Fiscal Year 2013”; 2015

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Advanced Reactors

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The nuclear generations

By Enoshd - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39113233

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Not all the energy comes out at once

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Natural safety demonstration

EBR-II By Argonne National Laboratory-West - www.anlw.anl.gov/divisions/facilities/EBR_II_Page/EBRII_Frameset.htm

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More advanced reactors

http://people.seas.harvard.edu/~chr/research/granular/

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Nuclear Energy in the World

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Future Demand for Electricity

Int’l Energy Agency, World Energy Outlook, 2014

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A Globalizing Energy Source

Nuclear power plants in the world, 2005

60 new reactors being built (Oct 2016); 513 planned 4 9 r e a c t

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How to help & get more info

Help out

– Price carbon – T

ell friends

– Learn more

More Info

– whatisnuclear.com – world-nuclear.org – International Atomic Energy

Agency (iaea.org)

• Chernobyl forum
• Fukushima info

– US Energy Info Administration

(eia.gov)

– Pandora’s Promise (on Netfmix!)

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Thank you!

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Key Nuclear Physics: Isotopes