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Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming: Mitigation, Adaptation, and the Science Base (1992)
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TABLE G.1 Worldwide Programs of Nuclear Power Technology Development as adapted from Golay (1990)

PROGRAMS EMPHASIZING PASSIVE SAFETY

Federal Republic of Germany

 

• 100-MWe Modular HTGR (Siemens, Brown Boveri)

United Kingdom and United States

 

• 300-MWe Modular PWR (SIR Concept) (Rolls Royce & ABB-Combustion Engineering)

United States

 

• 130-MWe Modular HTGR (General Atomic)

 

• 130-MWe Modular LMR (PRISM Concept, General Electric)

 

• 600-MWe LWRs (Semi-Passive Safety)

   

ASBWR (BWR, General Electric)

   

AP-600 (PWR, Westinghouse)

 

• 20-MWe Integral Fast Reactor (IFR Concept, Argonne National Laboratory)

Sweden

 

• 500-MWe PIUS-PWR (ASEA-Brown Boveri)

PROGRAMS EMPHASIZING ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE

Europe

 

• Joint European Fast Reactor (France, Germany, United Kingdom)

 

• European 1400-MWe PWR (Nuclear Power International: France, Germany)

Canada

 

• 450-MWe HWR (CANDU 3) (AECL)

 

• 900-MWe HWR (AECL & Ontario Hydro)

France

 

• 1400-MWe PWR (N4 Project, Framatome, Electricité de France)

 

• 1200- to 1450-MWe LMFBR (Superphenix-1 Project, Novatome, Electricité de France)

Federal Republic of Germany

 

• 500-MWe HTGR (Successor to 300-MWe THTR Project)

 

• 300-MWe LMR (SNR 300 LMFBR Project)

Japan

 

• 1250-MWe LWRs

   

ABWR (Tokyo Electric Power, General Electric, Toshiba, Hitachi)

   

APWR (Kansai Electric, Mitsubishi, Westinghouse)

 

• 714-MWe LMR (Monju LMFBR Project)

 

• Successor to 148-MWe FUGEN LWR/HWR Project

United Kingdom

 

• 1000 to 1400-MWe PWR (Sizewell-B, Hinkley Point-C Projects)

United States

 

• LWR Requirements Document Project (Electric Power Research Institute)

 

• 1250-MWe ABWR (General Electric)

 

• 1250-MWe APWR (Westinghouse)

 

• System 80+ (ABB-Combustion Engineering)

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Front Matter (R1-R26)
Part One: Synthesis (1-2)
1 Introduction (3-4)
2 Background (5-11)
3 The Greenhouse Gases and Their Effects (12-28)
4 Policy Framework (29-35)
5 Adaptation (36-47)
6 Mitigation (48-64)
7 International Considerations (65-67)
8 Findings and Conclusions (68-72)
9 Recommendations (73-83)
Individual Statement by a Member Of The Synthesis Panel (84-86)
Part Two: The Science Base (87-88)
10 Introduction (89-90)
11 Emission Rates and Concentrations Of Greenhouse Gases (91-99)
12 Radiative Forcing and Feedback (100-110)
13 Model Performance (111-116)
14 The Climate Record (117-134)
15 Hydrology (135-139)
16 Sea Level (140-144)
17 A Greenhouse Forcing and Temperature Rise Estimation Procedure (145-152)
18 Conclusions (153-154)
Part Three: Mitigation (155-156)
19 Introduction (157-170)
20 Framework for Evaluating Mitigation Options (171-200)
21 Residential and Commercial Energy Management (201-247)
22 Industrial Energy Management (248-285)
23 Transportation Energy Management (286-329)
24 Energy Supply Systems (330-375)
25 Nonenergy Emission Reduction (376-413)
26 Population (414-423)
27 Deforestation (424-432)
28 Geoengineering (433-464)
29 Findings and Recommendations (465-498)
Part Four: Adaptation (499-500)
30 Findings (501-507)
31 Recommendations (508-514)
32 Issues, Assumptions, and Values (515-524)
33 Methods and Tools (525-540)
34 Sesitivities, Impacts, and Adaptations (541-652)
35 Indices (653-656)
36 Final Words (657-658)
Individual Statement by a Member of the Adaptation Panel (659-660)
Appendixes (661-662)
A Questions and Answers About Greenhouse Warming (663-691)
B Thinking About Time in the Context of Global Climate Change (692-707)
C Conservation Supply Curves for Buildings (708-716)
D Conservation Supply Curves for Industrial Energy Use (717-726)
E Conservation Supply Data for Three Transportation Sectors (727-758)
F Transportation System Management (759-766)
G Nuclear Energy (767-774)
H A Solar Hydrogen System (775-778)
I Biomass (779-785)
J Cost-Effectiveness of Electrical Generation Technologies (786-791)
K Cost-Effectiveness of Chlorofluorocarbon Phaseout—United States and Worldwide (792-797)
L Agriculture (798-807)
M Landfill Methane Reduction (808-808)
N Population Growth and Greenhouse Gas Emissions (809-811)
O Deforestation Prevention (812-813)
P Reforestation (814-816)
Q Geoengineering Options (817-835)
R Description of Economic Estimates of the Cost of Reducing Greenhouse Emissions (836-839)
S Glossary (840-846)
T Conversion Tables (847-848)
U Prefaces from the Individual Panel Reports (849-854)
V Acknowledgments from the Individual Panel Reports (855-857)
W Background Information on Panel Members and Professional Staff (858-868)
Index (869-918)