Arps public lecture brook

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Professor Barry W. Brook Professor Barry W. Brook Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change Director of Climate Science, Environment Institute Director of Climate Science, Environment Institute School of Earth and Environmental Sciences School of Earth and Environmental Sciences The University of Adelaide The University of Adelaide Contact: Contact: http://bravenewclimate.com http://bravenewclimate.com ARPS Public Lecture, 18 October 2010 ARPS Public Lecture, 18 October 2010 Clean and inexhaustible fission energy Clean and inexhaustible fission energy

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Professor Barry W. BrookProfessor Barry W. Brook Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate ChangeSir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change

Director of Climate Science, Environment InstituteDirector of Climate Science, Environment Institute School of Earth and Environmental SciencesSchool of Earth and Environmental Sciences

The University of AdelaideThe University of Adelaide Contact: Contact: http://bravenewclimate.com http://bravenewclimate.com

ARPS Public Lecture, 18 October 2010ARPS Public Lecture, 18 October 2010

Clean and inexhaustible fission energyClean and inexhaustible fission energy

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Nicholson, Biegler

& Brook (2010) 

“How carbon pricing changes the relative 

competitiveness of low‐carbon baseload

generating technologies”

Energy (in press)

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Can we really replace fossil fuels by 2050?

— Gen III alone = eventual escalation of fuel costs, waste

— Gen IV (IFR etc.) alone = too slow to ramp up

— Gen III and Gen IV in partnership = perfect synergy

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PFBR (India)500 MWe (2011)

CEFR (China)20 MWe (2010)

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