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Date Posted: 20:42:02 02/25/14 Tue
Author: Knut Holt
Subject: Nuclear energy - how to use it the right way

The World Is Going Nuclear, But What Is the Best Way?

Nuclear power plants are being built around the World in a greaterscale than ever before, and this trend can hardly be stopped,despite the dangers of this energy source. There are however waysof diminishing the environmental hazards of nuclear power whilegetting the most benefits from it.

The total capacity of nuclear power plants is steadily increasing throughout the globe. One reason for this increase is the steadily increased demand for energy. Another is the aim of diminishing the outlet of greenhouse gases, and a third is a probable shortage of oil and natural gas in the near future. Nuclear energy plants are also very clean, provided no incident happens, so an increased use of this type of energy may reduce the total impact on the environment from pollution.

But nuclear energy is expensive, and the production of nuclear energy implies obvious hazards for disastrous incidents. Both the cost of energy from nuclear power, the need for nuclear power capacity and the total hazard can however be brought to a minimum with a consequent economical use of this energy source.

Such an economical use can be achieved by establishing production cells containing the nuclear plant itself and units for production of other goods that use the energy produced in the power plant right away without a long transport. The electric power not used within the production cell must of course be transported to other consumers through the grid.

The central unit in such a production cell will be the power plant itself. One obvious output of the power plant is of course electric power. Another output is heat from the cooling system of the reactors which traditionally is thought out as waste and exchanged with the atmosphere or with the water in the sea, a river or a lake. The heat should however be treated as a product delivered for further utilization just like the electric power.

The exact types of production plants to be grouped around the central power station will of course vary according to the demand in the area and the demand from an export market.

One unit of the total complex that can utilize both the electric power and the heat could be a huge greenhouse establishment that is using the heated water to grow various types of crop. Nuclear production cells in cold parts of the globe can this way also help to increase the food production in cold areas and help to satisfy a steadily growing demand for food in the whole world.

The plant for production of food could be a traditional greenhouse, but it could as likely be a modern plant for production of food from algae or microorganisms.

Another unit would be a hydrogen factory, using produced electricity to generate hydrogen to be sold as vehicle fuel. As use of oil based fuel is getting steadily more problematic, hydrogen is rising as the new source of power for vehicles of all types.

In areas with lack of freshwater supply, an obvious unit could be a production plant for clean freshwater from seawater or from local sewers.

The rest of the area in the production cell could be reserved for power-demanding industry, for example metallurgic and chemical industries.

Such an integrated use of nuclear power will obviously need planning beforehand. Each country should have a total plan for all such production cells and all new nuclear power plants should be fitted into such an integrated industrial cell. Then the planning of each individual area for this use and the preparation of each area should also ideally be a task managed by the government of each country.

Then the area should be overtaken by the actual energy company and companies interested in utilizing the produced energy in ways according to the plan.

When planning and establishing such cells, one should also plan for the future where power from nuclear fission hopefully can be replaced by power produced by nuclear fusion. The area should be planned in such a way that one easily can build a new power plant designed by new principles, and the old plant taken down without interruption of the function in the total cell.

Such production cells should ideally be placed outside great populated areas. The establishment of such a production complex will however generate a new society around it where employees can live.

Such production complexes powered by a nuclear plant will of course be a huge establishment occupying a great area. On a total scale for a country it will however save land areas, since all the plants within the cell can utilize a common concentrated infrastructure.

Establishing such production cells can also reduce pollution on a national scale, since all the production units in the complex can use effective common resources for handling and recirculation of waste.

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