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<strong>atw</strong> Vol. 64 (<strong>2<strong>01</strong>9</strong>) | Issue 1 ı January<br />
SERIAL | MAJOR TRENDS IN ENERGY POLICY AND NUCLEAR POWER 18<br />
| | Editorial Advisory Board<br />
Frank Apel<br />
Erik Baumann<br />
Dr. Maarten Becker<br />
Dr. Erwin Fischer<br />
Carsten George<br />
Eckehard Göring<br />
Florian Gremme<br />
Dr. Ralf Güldner<br />
Carsten Haferkamp<br />
Dr. Petra-Britt Hoffmann<br />
Christian Jurianz<br />
Dr. Guido Knott<br />
Prof. Dr. Marco K. Koch<br />
Dr. Willibald Kohlpaintner<br />
Ulf Kutscher<br />
Herbert Lenz<br />
Jan-Christian Lewitz<br />
Andreas Loeb<br />
Dr. Thomas Mull<br />
Dr. Ingo Neuhaus<br />
Dr. Joachim Ohnemus<br />
Prof. Dr. Winfried Petry<br />
Dr. Tatiana Salnikova<br />
Dr. Andreas Schaffrath<br />
Dr. Jens Schröder<br />
Norbert Schröder<br />
Prof. Dr. Jörg Starflinger<br />
Prof. Dr. Bruno Thomauske<br />
Dr. Brigitte Trolldenier<br />
Dr. Walter Tromm<br />
Dr. Hans-Georg Willschütz<br />
Dr. Hannes Wimmer<br />
Ernst Michael Züfle<br />
Final remarks<br />
Summing up the features of nuclear power and its potential<br />
for a significant contribution to an answer to the climate<br />
question, the following resumé can be drawn:<br />
Nuclear (fission) power is a highly developed technology,<br />
its added value is quasi-domestic (as the Uranium<br />
fuel is extremely cheap), it is also exportable (if proliferation<br />
issues are satisfactorily solved, as it is the case for most<br />
states).<br />
Besides renewable energies (and CCS) it is the only<br />
carbon-neutral technology for large-scale power generation<br />
and the only one (besides geothermal energy), which<br />
is independent from solar irradiation or weather, thereby<br />
able to provide baseload generation.<br />
Meanwhile, more than 17,800 (reactor) years of operation<br />
have been achieved with only a few major incidents of<br />
which both Chernobyl and Fukushima did arise by wilful<br />
deviation from established safety rules and do not classify<br />
in terms of a probabilistic safety analysis as “residual risk”.<br />
With the exception of Chernobyl, no significant health<br />
damage has arisen from operation (or accidents) of nuclear<br />
power plants (World Health Organisation: www.who.<br />
int/mediacentre/news/releases/2<strong>01</strong>3/fukushima_report_<br />
2<strong>01</strong>30228/en/).<br />
Nuclear power plants underlay scheduled maintenance,<br />
high-thermal fatigue is nowhere the life-limiting parameter<br />
(in contrast to fossil- fired power plants), all wear-<br />
components are regularly exchanged (except the reactor<br />
vessels themselves, these are qualified for 60 to over<br />
100 years). Any nuclear power plant can therefore be<br />
regarded technically as-good-as-new at any point in time.<br />
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Thus, the premature shutdown of the 17 German<br />
reactors implies an enormous financial damage (about<br />
200 G€, calculated with a cost advantage of 0.04 €/kWh<br />
over 30 years) to companies and the German society.<br />
Acceptance of nuclear power varies widely over<br />
different countries. Both in Europe and in the industrialised<br />
world the majority of countries pursue a constructive<br />
approach to the use of nuclear power. Key elements for<br />
acceptance are a rational – and in comparison to other<br />
risks quantitative – discussion of (residual) risks and a<br />
political will for implementing a practical solution for<br />
waste disposal.<br />
References<br />
1 www.umweltbundesamt.de/daten/klima/atmosphaerischetreibhausgaskonzentrationen#textpart-1<br />
2 IPCC 2<strong>01</strong>4: Klimaänderung 2<strong>01</strong>3: Naturwissenschaftliche Grundlagen. Häufig gestellte Fragen und<br />
Antworten – Teil des Beitrags der Arbeitsgruppe I zum Fünften Sachstands bericht des Zwischenstaatlichen<br />
Ausschusses für Klimaänderungen (IPCC) [T.F. Stocker, D. Qin, G.-K. Plattner, M. Tignor,<br />
S.K. Allen, J. Boschung, A. Nauels, Y. Xia, V. Bex und P.M. Midgley (Hrsg.)]. Deutsche Übersetzung<br />
durch die deutsche IPCC-Koordinierungs stelle und Klimabüro für Polargebiete und Meeresspiegelanstieg,<br />
Bonn, 2<strong>01</strong>7.<br />
3 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Diet_of_Japan_Fukushima_Nuclear_Accident_Independent_<br />
Investi-gation_Commission<br />
4 https://analysis.nuclearenergyinsider.com/nuclear-build-costs-could-fall-over-35-using-globallearnings,<br />
June 2<strong>01</strong>8, retrieved in August 2<strong>01</strong>8<br />
5 In fact the US Army Corps of Engineers operated a small nuclear power generator on the WW-2<br />
cargo ship STURGIS between 1967 and 1976 to desalinate water and to power US installations in the<br />
Panama Canal zone.<br />
6 http://www.posiva.fi/en/media/videos#.<br />
Author<br />
Dr.-Ing. Ludger Mohrbach<br />
Department Head „Nuclear“<br />
VGB PowerTech e.V.<br />
Deilbachtal 173<br />
45257 Essen, Germany<br />
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ISSN 1431-5254<br />
Serial | Major Trends in Energy Policy and Nuclear Power<br />
The Role of Nuclear Power in the World ı Ludger Mohrbach
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