CIAO DATE: 08/2014
December 2013
This latest Energy & Environment Program report, entitled Redefining Leadership in the Global Nuclear Energy Market, addresses the range of options for the global future of nuclear energy and attempts to define the best international structures that will allow nuclear energy to maintain a viable share of the global energy portfolio. Global energy demand will increase substantially in the coming decades under pressure from global trends, including an increasing population that will reach 9 billion by 2040, and, for the first time in history, will be overwhelmingly urban. Meeting basic global energy needs will require the use of all available sources of energy while addressing and minimizing environmental and climate impacts. Nuclear energy is an established part of the world’s electricity mix, and provides large-scale, reliable, base-load electricity demand. As such, it seems to be well matched to fit into an increasingly urban world that aims to mediate environmental challenges.
Resource link: Redefining Leadership in the Global Nuclear Energy Market [PDF] - 3.8M