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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.
M. S. Tillack, X. R. Wang, D. Navaei, H. H. Toudeshki, A. F. Rowcliffe, F. Najmabadi, ARIES Team
Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 67 | Number 1 | January 2015 | Pages 49-74
Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST14-790
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ARIES-ACT1 is the latest in a series of tokamak power plant designs that capitalize on the high-temperature capabilities and attractive safety and environmental characteristics of SiC composites coupled with a self-cooled lead-lithium breeder. This combination offers both design simplicity and high performance, capable of operating at very high coolant outlet temperature in a moderately high-power-density device. Blankets are supported within a poloidally continuous He-cooled steel structural ring, which adds robustness and minimizes loads on the SiC modules. In order to withstand high local surface heat flux in the divertor (of the order of 14 MW/m2 time averaged), a helium-cooled tungsten-alloy divertor was adopted. About 25% of the total “high-grade” heat is thus removed by helium, to be combined with the blanket heat in order to feed the power cycle. In addition to the in-vessel power-producing elements of the design, this paper also summarizes the key features and analysis of the vacuum vessel and power conversion system.