| Date | Title/Description |
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| Q2 2010 | Nuclear Energy Prospects in Southeast Asia
This quarter’s essay in Chapter 1 – Essay: Nuclear Energy Prospects in Southeast Asia analyzes the potential for nuclear power plants being deployed in various countries within the Southeast Asian region. |
| Q1 2010 | Nuclear Power and Climate Change
This quarter’s essay, “Nuclear Power and Climate Change” analyzes the nexus between carbon-neutral nuclear power and the policies around the world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that are believed to be the cause of man-made global warming and climate change. |
| Q4 2009 | A Forecast For Every Season
Given the intriguing results from multiple recent nuclear power forecasts from the WNA, IAEA, EIA, and OECD-IEA, the purpose of this essay is to examine both the common themes and the variations among these forecasts as well as to compare and contrast them with our own UxC reactor growth scenarios that are presented on a quarterly basis through the NPO. |
| Q3 2009 | A New Model to Forecast Fuel Cycle Requirements
The purpose of this quarter's essay, "A New Model to Forecast Fuel Cycle Requirements", is to provide a detailed explanation of how the UxC Requirements Model (URM) was developed, how it functions and is updated, and how the results for each quarter’s fuel cycle requirements are created and used. We also examine how the URM ties in to the reactor forecasts presented in UxC’s Nuclear Power Outlook reports. |
| Q2 2009 | Nuclear Energy Prospects in the Middle East
The goal of this essay is to understand the current status of nuclear energy development in the Middle East, identify potential challenges, and discuss future trends. We also focus on some concrete steps to introduce nuclear reactors into the energy mix of a few key countries in the region and provide detailed forecasts for nuclear power development in the Middle East by 2030. |
| Q1 2009 | From 0 to 1000 MWe: What It Takes To ‘Go Nuclear’
One important aspect to the anticipated growth in global nuclear power is that numerous new countries (mostly emerging economies) are taking serious steps towards developing their own domestic nuclear power programs. in this qessay we present a brief overview and initial analysis of the primary technical and logistical issues for any country attempting to “go nuclear,” i.e. from zero megawatts (MWe) of nuclear electricity to a fully operating commercial reactor. |
| Q4 2008 | Nuclear Power in an Uncertain World
The global financial meltdown and near collapse of the credit markets in 2008 altered everyone’s view of the future in one way or another. This essay explores in detail how the current and potential future economic uncertainties may alter the course of nuclear power developments around the world. We also assess the impact of the financial crisis on selected countries and report UxC’s revised nuclear power forecasts. |
| Q3 2008 | New Nuclear Power Plant Financing
In this essay we examine the issue of new nuclear plant financing in detail and analyze some of the different ways that utilities and countries are tackling the question of how to raise the necessary large capital funds to finance new reactor projects. This is a global review of the reactor financing issue and should provide insights into various approaches that may work as well as the common themes and lessons learned from different country experiences. |
| Q2 2008 | Top Ten Challenges to Nuclear Power
In our desire to present a fair and balanced view of the future of nuclear power, this essay delves deeper into an examination of the “Top Ten Challenges” to nuclear power expansion around the world. While some challenges to nuclear power are well known, there are others that are ei-ther discounted or not often considered. We hope to highlight the nature of these challenges as well as discuss how some are responding to them. |
| Q1 2008 | Why Nuclear? Why Now?
Top Ten Reasons for Nuclear Power: We examine the global dimension to nuclear power and the various rationales used by electric utilities and governments around the world pursuing new nuclear reactor construction. Much has been made of the “nuclear renaissance,” but it is not often that we discuss the underlying reasons why this renaissance is real and what is driving this growth. There are clearly multiple reasons why nuclear power is back on the table in countries that appeared to moving away from it, and why nuclear is taking hold in parts of the world that had heretofore found other avenues to energy production. |