Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Requirements.
The book illuminates just how difficult it would be to meet our decarbonisation goals with renewables alone, and dispels wrong assumptions held about nuclear energy based on old, outdated ideas.. Now Gogan serves on the UK government's Nuclear Innovation and Research Advisory Board, the board of US NGO, Nuclear Innovation Alliance, as well as the French NGO, Voices for Nuclear.She’s passionate about the substantial opportunities new nuclear presents to help us meet our net zero goals, and is particularly hopeful about small modular reactors and advanced heat sources, which are designed to be manufactured products, largely made in factories.
In addition, she highlights the fact that a power plant using advanced heat solutions, costing one to two billion pounds to build, and which is quickly assembled on-site, is much easier to finance, and much better for local communities, than a very large scale, 20 billion pound construction project that creates years of disruption, dust and noise.. Gogan believes that any remaining sceptics will become convinced about the benefits of nuclear as they become more aware of the versatility on offer by these new nuclear, advanced heat solutions, which are capable of delivering so much more than consistent, reliable electricity.In actuality, electricity accounts for just 20% of our energy usage, and we can use these new nuclear technologies to produce not only electricity, but also emissions-free heat, which offers a variety of benefits and uses, from hydrogen production and the desalination of water, to the supply of heat to homes and businesses..Problems with renewable energy: wind and solar challenges.
Realistically, if we truly want to bend the curve on carbon emissions, we must start diversifying our strategies, relying on more than just renewables.Advanced heat solutions represent excellent complementary technologies to wind and solar power, as these renewables face real challenges.
For example, low density means that in order to harness enough energy to power the UK, we would need to build a solar farm of an impossibly large size.
Renewables also have problems to do with dispatch power and consistency, as well as challenges with site locations.Using a standardised capacity model to rapidly translate scientific, technological, and commercial requirements (e.g.
test types, technology options, demand scenarios) into an equipment list..Using a design configurator to rapidly translate this equipment list, a library of equipment and building components, and codified design rules (e.g.
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