Kuasa nuklear

Kuasa nuklear adalah merupakan sebarang teknologi nuklear yang direka bagi menghasilkan tenaga yang boleh digunakan daripada nukleus-nukleus atom melalui tindak balas nuklear terkawal. Satu-satunya kaedah yang digunakan pada hari ini adalah melalui pembelahan nuklear, walaupun begitu kaedah-kaedah lain pada satu hari nanti termasuk pelakuran nuklear dan pereputan radioaktif. Kesemua reaktor skala utiliti memanaskan air bagi menghasilkan stim, yang mana kemudian ditukarkan kepada kerja mekanikal untuk menghasilkan kuasa elektrik atau pendorongan. Pada tahun 2007, 14% daripada kuasa elektrik di dunia datangnya daripada kuasa nuklear. Selain itu, lebih daripada 150 buah kapal berkuasa nuklear juga telah dibina, dan beberapa buah roket radioisotop telah dikeluarkan. Kuasa nuklear adalah satu sumber kuasa rendah karbon.

Janakuasa Nuklear Ikata, sebuah reaktor tekanan air yang disejukkan oleh air laut.

Tiga buah kapal berkuasa nuklear, (atas ke bawah) penjajap nuklear USS Bainbridge dan USS Long Beach dengan USS Enterprise kapal pengangkut pesawat berkuasa nuklear pertama pada tahun 1964. Anak-anak kapal menulis formula persamaan jisim-tenaga Einstein E=mc² di dek penerbangan.

Rujukan

• An entry to nuclear power through an educational discussion of reactors
• The Nuclear Energy Option, online book by Bernard L. Cohen.
• Steve Thomas (2005), "The Economics of Nuclear Power: analysis of recent studies"PDF (305 KB), PSIRU, University of Greenwich, UK
• Nuclear power information archives from ALSOS, the National Digital Science Library at Washington & Lee University.
• Texas Will Host First New U.S. Nuclear Plants since 1970s
• Power to Save the World: the Truth about Nuclear Energy / Gwyneth Cravens (2007) ISBN 0307266567

Pautan luar

• Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues — Annotated Bibliography on Nuclear Power
• An entry to nuclear power through an educational discussion of reactors
• Argonne National Laboratory — Maps of Nuclear Power Reactors
• Boiling Water Reactor Plant, BWR Simulator Program
• Briefing Papers from the Australian EnergyScience Coaltion
• British Energy — Understanding Nuclear Energy / Nuclear Power
• Coal Combustion: Nuclear Resource or Danger?
• Congressional Research Service report on Nuclear Energy PolicyPDF (94.0 KB)
• Energy Information Administration provides lots of statistics and information
• Environmental impacts of nuclear power according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency‎ at EPA.gov
• How Nuclear Power Works
• IAEA Website The International Atomic Energy Agency
  • IAEA's Power Reactor Information System (PRIS)
  • IAEA's Web directory of nuclear related resources on the Internet
• Idaho National Laboratory's Nuclear Research
  • Information about all NPP in the world
• Nuclear Power Education
• Nuclear Tourist.com, nuclear power information
• Nuclear Waste Disposal Resources
• The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2007.
• Wilson Quarterly — Nuclear Power: Both Sides
• Nuclear Power Related News
• Relative costs of wind, coal and nuclear power

Tapak web berita nuklear

• An up to date selection of US and international news on nuclear issues
• ANS Nuclear Clips
• Nuclear News
• World Nuclear News

Tentangan

• Why we don't need nuclear power
• 1 million Europeans against nuclear power
• Beyond Nuclear at Nuclear Policy Research Institute advocacy organization
• Campaign for Nuclear Phaseout (CNP)
• Climate Change and Nuclear EnergyPDF (265 kB)
• Critical assessment of the US-India nuclear energy accord published by the Internationalist Review* Critical Hour: Three Mile Island, The Nuclear Legacy, And National SecurityPDF (929 KB) Online book
• Greenpeace: End the nuclear age and Nuclear Reaction blog.
• Greenpeace — Calendar of Nuclear Accidents
• Natural Resources Defense CouncilPDF (158 KB)
• Nuclear Files
• Sierra Club
• World Information Service on Energy (WISE)

Sokongan

• American Nuclear Society (ANS)
• Atomic Insights
• Environmentalists for Nuclear Power
• Foratom: The European Atomic Forum
• Freedom for Fission
• Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI)
• Nuclear is Our Future
• Representing the People and Organisations of the Global Nuclear Profession
• SCK•CEN: Belgian Nuclear Research Centre
• The Nuclear Energy Option, online book by Bernard L. Cohen. Emphasis on risk estimates of nuclear.
• World Nuclear Association
• Nuclear Power an Alternate Energy Power Point Slides
• Pros and Cons of Nuclear Power Power Point Slides