There can be a nuclear power to competitive energy in the free market?

Anatoly Vasil’evich Klimenko

doi:10.26583/npe.2013.4.02

There can be a nuclear power to competitive energy in the free market?

Izvestiya Wysshikh Uchebnykh Zawedeniy Yadernaya Energetika ◽

10.26583/npe.2013.4.02 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 2013 (4) ◽

pp. 17-28 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Anatoly Vasil’evich Klimenko

Keyword(s):

Nuclear Power ◽

Free Market

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When Is ‘Yes to the Mill’ Environmental Justice? Interrogating Sites of Acceptance in Response to Energy Development

Analyse & Kritik ◽

10.1515/auk-2014-0205 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 36 (2) ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Stephanie Malin

Keyword(s):

Environmental Justice ◽

Nuclear Power ◽

Resource Dependence ◽

Production Systems ◽

Free Market ◽

Global Climate ◽

Energy Development ◽

Grassroots Organizations ◽

Persistent Poverty ◽

Natural Resource Dependence

AbstractThough grassroots organizations have mobilized against US environmental injustices since; the 1980s, academic definitions of environmental justice (EJ) remain limited in important ways, including: a tendency to privilege cases where activists achieve a successful, ‘tidy’ outcome; inattention to roles natural resource dependence and free market systems play in structuring environmental inequality; and a tendency to under-analyze alternative notions of EJ that result, utilized by activists who prioritize local autonomy and procedural justice in land-use decision making. Here, I argue that these alternative notions of EJ help mobilize divergent forms of EJ activism-‘sites of resistance’ to industrial production systems and their risks, and ‘sites of acceptance’ to those same practices. To illustrate, I explore extensive mixed method data in the context of energy development and sites of acceptance related to uranium production in the southwestern United States. I show how alternative notions of EJ are shaped by identification with uranium production, persistent poverty and economic insecurity, and faith that increased uranium production will fuel US nuclear power production and help combat global climate change.

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Free-Market Energy

Energy & Environment ◽

10.1260/0958-305x.23.4.647 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 23 (4) ◽

pp. 647-655

Author(s):

Alexander M. Schaefer ◽

Walter E. Block

Keyword(s):

Resource Allocation ◽

Property Rights ◽

Energy Policy ◽

Nuclear Power ◽

Private Property ◽

Free Market ◽

Department Of Energy ◽

Private Property Rights ◽

Laissez Faire

There should be no governmental energy policy, nor any department of energy, for that matter. All decisions concerning fuel, up to and including nuclear power, should be based on private property rights and the tenets of laissez faire capitalism. This would assure the proper assumption of risk and ideal resource allocation.

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The Effects of Ion Implantation on the Surface Features of Inconel 600

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100118333 ◽

1985 ◽

Vol 43 ◽

pp. 288-289

Author(s):

John D. Rubio

Keyword(s):

Grain Boundary ◽

Ion Implantation ◽

Nuclear Power ◽

Power Plants ◽

Surface Region ◽

Selective Dissolution ◽

Boundary Region ◽

Near Surface ◽

Inconel 600 ◽

Steam Generator Tubing

The degradation of steam generator tubing at nuclear power plants has become an important problem for the electric utilities generating nuclear power. The material used for the tubing, Inconel 600, has been found to be succeptible to intergranular attack (IGA). IGA is the selective dissolution of material along its grain boundaries. The author believes that the sensitivity of Inconel 600 to IGA can be minimized by homogenizing the near-surface region using ion implantation. The collisions between the implanted ions and the atoms in the grain boundary region would displace the atoms and thus effectively smear the grain boundary.To determine the validity of this hypothesis, an Inconel 600 sample was implanted with 100kV N2+ ions to a dose of 1x1016 ions/cm2 and electrolytically etched in a 5% Nital solution at 5V for 20 seconds. The etched sample was then examined using a JEOL JSM25S scanning electron microscope.

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