{"id":32725,"date":"2018-03-23T12:23:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-23T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32725"},"modified":"2018-03-23T12:23:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-23T17:23:25","slug":"energy-externalities-day-4-nuclear-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=32725","title":{"rendered":"Energy Externalities Day 4: Nuclear Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/euanmearns.com\/energy-externalities-day-4-nuclear-power\/\">Energy Externalities Day 4: Nuclear Power<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.euanmearns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Unknown-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/>It\u2019s now day 4 of the Energy Externality Game. Diesel generators were next on the list, but I decided to skip over that for the time being and to move on to the more exciting topic of nuclear power. Nuclear power has a long supply chain and needs to take into account U mining, ore processing and upgrading to yellow cake; enrichment and fuel manufacture; construction of enrichment facilities, reactors and power stations; operation of the foregoing; decommissioning and waste storage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/euanmearns.com\/the-externalities-of-energy-production-systems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Externalities of Energy Production Systems (Day 1 Coal)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/euanmearns.com\/energy-externalities-day-2-gas-fired-ccgt\/\">Energy Externalities Day 2: Gas-fired-CCGT<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/euanmearns.com\/energy-externalities-day-3-biomass-fired-electricity\/\">Energy Externalities Day 3: Biomass-Fired-Electricity<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>I am proposing to use 12 metrics to measure costs and benefits:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fatalities \/ year \/ unit of energy produced<\/li>\n<li>Chronic illness years \/ year \/ unit of energy produced<\/li>\n<li>Environmental costs not covered directly by the system operators<\/li>\n<li>Foot print of energy system per unit of energy produced<\/li>\n<li>Energy system costs where energy source transfers costs to the transmission system<\/li>\n<li>Energy system benefits where energy source provides a service to the transmission system<\/li>\n<li>Environmental benefits derived from energy system operation<\/li>\n<li>Taxes raised \/ year \/ for total energy produced<\/li>\n<li>Subsidies paid \/ year \/ for total energy produced<\/li>\n<li>Tax free cost of energy<\/li>\n<li>EroEI<\/li>\n<li>Resource availability<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>For the following 12 electricity generating systems<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Coal-fired (Monday 19 March)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Gas-fired (Tuesday 20 March)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Biomass-fired<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Diesel<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nuclear<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Hydro electric<\/li>\n<li>Wind<\/li>\n<li>Solar PV<\/li>\n<li>Solar thermal<\/li>\n<li>Wave<\/li>\n<li>Tidal\n<ul>\n<li>barrage<\/li>\n<li>lagoon<\/li>\n<li>stream<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Geothermal<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I then go on to provide qualitative assessments of each measure for each electricity system. I have then developed a game whereby we assign a score against each measure on a scale of 1 to 10 where.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Energy Externalities Day 4: Nuclear Power It\u2019s now day 4 of the Energy Externality Game. Diesel generators were next on the list, but I decided to skip over that for the time being and to move on to the more exciting topic of nuclear power. Nuclear power has a long supply chain and needs to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[11260,268,19427,11842,14602,579],"class_list":["post-32725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-energy-matters","tag-energy-production","tag-energy-production-externalities","tag-euan-mearns","tag-externalities","tag-nuclear-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32726,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32725\/revisions\/32726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}