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NUCLEAR ENERGY DR MARK HO
President, Australian Nuclear Association (ANA)
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OPAL: Australia’s research reactor
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Source: AEMO, Integrated System Planning, 2018
Coal’s scheduled retirement
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Source: AEMO 2018
NSW’s NEM Today Source MW % Capacity Factor (CF) MW x CF %
Solar 578 3.2% 0.24 139 1.8%
Coal 10,240 57.2% 0.61 6,246 81.6%
Gas 1,964 11.0% 0.21 412 5.4%
Gas (reciprocating) 166 0.9% 0.24 40 0.5%
Hydroelectric 4,250 23.7% 0.14 595 7.8%
Biomass 78 0.4% 0.24 19 0.2%
Wind 634 3.5% 0.32 203 2.7%
Total 17,910 100.0% Avg. Generation 7,654 100.0%
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Constant base load power
Zero carbon production
80 - 92% capacity factor | 40 – 60+ years lifespan
What about nuclear?
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Nuclear power reactors worldwide
447
reactors in total
2.5 trillion
kWh in 2018
10%
of world’s electricity
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24
14 13 10 9
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20
40
60
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100
120
Nuclear Power Generation
Source: IAEA, 2019. PRIS
[GW]
400 GW World capacity total
10.2% World’s electricity
80% Global av. capacity factor
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Nuclear & VRE generation
Source: BP Statistical Review of World Energy, 2019
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VRE grid penetration
Source: IEA, 2018
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Nuclear’s small environmental footprint
Land required to produce
26 terawatt hours
annually
Wind
1,010km2
Solar
607km2
Nuclear
6.5km2
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Carbon intensity
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France & Germany
Source: http://data.worldbank.org/topic/climate-change
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Renewables or Nuclear? (Why not Renewables & Nuclear?)
Source: Fraunhofer ISE Germany, RTE France
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300 units
worldwide
Pressurised water reactor
Graphics: World Nuclear Association
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Uranium power density
600L of oil
800kg of coal
17million thermal units of
natural gas
7 grams
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CH4
Methane O2
Oxygen CO2
Carbon Dioxide H2O
Water 9.2 eV
ENERGY
N
Free moving neutrons
177,000,000 eV
ENERGY Ba-141 + Kr-92
Barium and Krypton atoms
U-235
Radioactive uranium atom
N
Free moving neutron
Comparison COMBUSTION OF HYDROCARBONS
NUCLEAR FISSION OF URANIUM
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Fuel rods and fuel bundles
Images: Rosatom
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Spent fuel
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Geological Storage
Source: IAEA
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Alpha (helium nucleus)
Beta (electrons)
X-ray & gamma (EM waves)
Neutrons
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Combined measure:
Sievert (Sv)
What is Ionising Radiation?
Common measure: 1 µSv or 1 millionth of a Sievert
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Eating a banana
Flying to Bali
2 weeks in Fukushima
Living in Australia 1 yr
(background dose)
CT chest scan
0.10 µSv
40 µSv
100 µSv
3,500 µSv
7,000 µSv
Radiation worker
limit (1 year)
Maximum Dose
without risk of
developing cancer
Fatal dose
20,000 µSv
100,000 µSv
4,000,000 µSv
Everyday examples
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Taishan Units 1 & 2
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Costs
China, Sanmen: 2 Units US $5.06 B project $2.3 M / MW
US, Vogtle: 2 Units US $19 B project $8.6 M / MW
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Small modular reactors
Mitsubishi APWRTM
1700 MWe NuScaleTM 60 MWe
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Smaller fuel load
Source: Worrall (2015)
60 MWe 1,100 MWe
SMRs vs 1 GW reactors
9.2 tons of uranium dioxide (UO2)
96.1 tons of uranium dioxide (UO2)
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Cooling Reservoir
Source: NuScale
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Passive safety. Walkaway safe.
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Molten salt reactors
Terrapower (B. Gates) Molten Chloride Fast Reactor
Terrestrial Energy Integral Molten Salt Reactor
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microReactors
Graphics: Los Alamos National Lab
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Questions?