The resurgence of nuclear energy. An option for the climatic change and for the emergent countries?
Creators
- 1. UNAM, Instituto de Investigaciones Economicas, Circuito Mario de la Cueva, Ciudad Universitaria, 04510 Mexico D. F. (Mexico)
- 2. Instituto de Investigaciones Electricas, Av. Reforma 113, Col. Palmira, 62490 Cuernavaca, Morelos (Mexico)
- 3. Electricite de France, Comite Cientifico Asesor, 22-30 avenue de Wagram, 75382 Paris (France)
- 4. ININ, Carretera Mexico-Toluca s/n, 52759 Ocoyoacac, Estado de Mexico (Mexico)
- 5. University of Greenwich, 30 Park Row, London SE10 9LS (United Kingdom)
- 6. Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environment et le Developpement, CNRS, Campus du Jardin Tropical 45 bis, avenue de la Belle Gabrielle 94736, Nogent-sur-Marne Cedex (France)
- 7. University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 8UW (United Kingdom)
- 8. Freie Universitat Berlin, Environmental Policy Research Centre, Thielallee 47, 14195 Berlin (Germany)
Description
The modern society is organized in mistaken form. A tremendous inability of the juridical, political, social and cultural system exists to interrelate the ecosystem (the resources that allow the life and the human activity) with the economic way of production, that is to say with the manner like the human beings appropriate of the nature and they transform it to satisfy the reproduction necessities of the capital and the population. Today we are already paying the consequences of this error. Of continuing with this tendency the next six years, a global increase of five centigrade grades is expected in the temperature, with effects like the increase of the sea level, floods, droughts, among other global problems, for what the gases of greenhouse effect are and they will continue being the main environmental challenge of the X XI century because they not represent alone a threat for the development but also for the humanity survival. The world conscience has wakened up, and in most of the countries where is stopped the construction of new nuclear power plants the plans are reconsidered to return the use of this source, being the two main reasons for reconsideration: the concern for the climatic change and the new world perception about the limits of fossil fuel reserves. The world return of the interest for the nuclear energy, it force to take in consideration the energy politics of Mexico whose structure is too much dependent of hydrocarbons and the import of liquefied natural gas and other energies, subject to the prices volatility and in a frame that lacks long term vision. Here the whole problem of the nuclear industry is exposed, the experiences, the risks, the costs, the future of the energy production for the populations that every time has a bigger consumption, the reader will have, this way, a wide panorama of diverse topics and interests that affect to generation of nuclear energy. (Author)
Additional details
Additional titles
- Original title (Spanish)
- El resurgimiento de la energia nuclear. Una opcion para el cambio climatico y para los paises emergentes?
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- Siglo XXI Editores, S. A. de C. V.
- Imprint Place
- Mexico D. F. (Mexico)
- ISBN
- 978-607-03-0133-9
- Imprint Pagination
- 230 p.
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Mexico
- Country of Input or Organization
- Mexico
- INIS RN
- 41061344
- Subject category
- S29: ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY; S99: GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS;
- Is Lead record
- Yes
- Descriptors DEI
- COST; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY POLICY; FOSSIL FUELS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GASES; HAZARDS; HUMAN POPULATIONS; HYDROCARBONS; LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS; MEXICO; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR INDUSTRY; NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS; PLANNING; PUBLIC OPINION; RESERVES
- Descriptors DEC
- CLIMATIC CHANGE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENERGY; ENERGY SOURCES; FLUIDS; FOSSIL FUELS; FUEL GAS; FUELS; GAS FUELS; GASES; GOVERNMENT POLICIES; INDUSTRY; LATIN AMERICA; LIQUEFIED GASES; LIQUIDS; NATURAL GAS; NORTH AMERICA; NUCLEAR FACILITIES; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; POPULATIONS; POWER PLANTS; RESOURCES; THERMAL POWER PLANTS