This volume is the proceedings of the Global Foundations Inc.'s 22nd International Energy Forum, held November 5-6, 1999, and is highlighted by presentations by nuclear experts from around the world, including several officials of the US Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The papers address the need for nuclear energy in the new century; the issues of competition with other energy sources; the position of nuclear power in the context of critical global and environmental problems; the necessity of commercial nuclear power development to deal with nuclear arms proliferation; and the necessity to counter the prejudices and obstacles to the development of nuclear energy sources.
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The 1970s began with continuing global challenges, the worsening of the cold war between the USSR and the West, the energy crisis that began with the embargo imposed by the petroleum exporting countries in 1973, ever increasing world population, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the increasing gap between the rich and poor, global environmental degradation and more. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
classical safeguards, surplus weapons plutonium, fuel cycle policy, undeclared nuclear activities, undeclared activities, integrated safeguards, energy black hole, spent fuel, fission energy, nuclear future, safeguards system Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Global Foundation, New York, Department of Energy, Yucca Mountain, Edward Teller, Kluwer Academic, Plenum Publishers, The Challenges, North Korea, Three Mile Island, Hans Bethe, University of Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Twenty-First Century Edited, Miami Beach, Oak Ridge, Soviet Union, United Nations, Glenn Seaborg, South Caucasus, Coral Gables, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Scientific Forum New!
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The 1970s began with continuing global challenges, the worsening of the cold war between the USSR and the West, the energy crisis that began with the embargo imposed by the petroleum exporting countries in 1973, ever increasing world population, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the increasing gap between the rich and poor, global environmental degradation and more. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
classical safeguards, surplus weapons plutonium, fuel cycle policy, undeclared nuclear activities, undeclared activities, integrated safeguards, energy black hole, spent fuel, fission energy, nuclear future, safeguards system Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Global Foundation, New York, Department of Energy, Yucca Mountain, Edward Teller, Kluwer Academic, Plenum Publishers, The Challenges, North Korea, Three Mile Island, Hans Bethe, University of Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Twenty-First Century Edited, Miami Beach, Oak Ridge, Soviet Union, United Nations, Glenn Seaborg, South Caucasus, Coral Gables, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Scientific Forum New!
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- Facts on Nuclear Energy (Facts on Series) by Guy Arnold on 4 pages
- How Many People Can the Earth Support? by Joel E. Cohen on page 66, and page 71
- Nuclear Energy by Scientific American on page 55, and page 71
- Global Warming: The Complete Briefing by John Houghton on page 72
- Global Issues by Wendy Davis in Front Matter
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