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
Nicholson, Biegler
& Brook (2010)
“How carbon pricing changes the relative
competitiveness of low‐carbon baseload
generating technologies”
Energy (in press)
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
PFBR (India)500 MWe (2011)
CEFR (China)20 MWe (2010)
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