TY - CONF TI - Factors affecting the next generation of nuclear power AB - For both financial, environmental and health reasons, and because of external and internal factors affecting this nation's energy supply, nuclear power will likely play a part in supplying this nation's energy in the coming decades. I believe this to be true for some other parts of the world as well. Even some severe critics of the nuclear power industry and the NRC might agree with me on this point. Increasing concern with the environmental consequences of the burning of fossil fuels has led some former opponents of the use of nuclear power to balance anew the risks and benefits of nuclear power and to modify to some degree their former opposition. A related concern with the adequacy of the energy supply is leading others to modify their positions. According to analyses done by the U.S. Department of Energy, after 1994 the United States will no longer be able to assure all its citizens a reliable supply of electricity. Already, many areas of the country are in need of additional electric capacity. In both Sweden and Switzerland, similar concerns have led to the adoption by many of more compromising positions. Some critics of nuclear power may in the end still reject it as an alternative, but, with the increased pressures on the environment and on our energy supply, nuclear power is an alternative which cannot be rejected without the most serious consideration. This should be, I believe, a point of consensus among us. In sum, there is a future for nuclear power in the sense that there is a use for it. AU - "Remick, F J [Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (United States)]" KW - "29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY AND ECONOMY" KW - "AVAILABILITY" KW - "ELECTRICITY" KW - "FOSSIL FUELS" KW - "HAZARDS" KW - "INDUSTRY" KW - "NUCLEAR POWER" KW - "SWEDEN" KW - "SWITZERLAND" DO - https://doi.org/ UR - https://www.osti.gov/etdeweb/servlets/purl/20767344 PB - CY - IAEA PY - 1990 DA - 1990-07-01 LA - English J2 - [] VL - C1 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program for Advanced Nuclear Power Studies, Cambridge, MA (United States) C2 - C3 - INIS-XA-N-191; MIT-ANP-CP-001 C4 - C5 - Available from INIS in electronic form L3 - Conference: 1. MIT international conference on the next generation of nuclear power technology, Cambridge, MA (United States), 4-5 Oct 1990; Other Information: Keynote address; Related Information: In: Proceedings of the first MIT international conference on the next generation of nuclear power technology, 258 pages. ER -