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Preparing the Ground for Renewal of Nuclear Power Preparing the Ground for Renewal of Nuclear Power Edited by Behram N. Kursunoglu Global Foundation, Ine. Coral Gables, F/orida Stephan L. Mintz F/orida International University Miami, F/orida and Amold Perlmutter University of Miami Coral Gables, Florida Springer Science+Business Media, LLC Proceedings of the International Conference on Preparing the Ground for Renewal of Nuclear Power, held October 22-23, 1998, in Paris, France ISBN 978-1-4613-7118-2 ISBN 978-1-4615-4679-5 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4615-4679-5 ©1999 Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, New York in 1999 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1s t edition 1999 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 l A C.LP. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. Ali rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher Preface The International Conference on Preparing the Ground for Renewal of Nuclear Power convened from October 22-23, 1998 in Paris, France. Like its precedents (1979 in Nice, France; 1982 and 1989 in Paris, France), the conference was very successful. It was organized by the European Subcommittee of the Global Foundation under the direction of Jean Couture (Trustee of the Foundation) and his most able colleague Pierre Zaleski (member of the Global Foundation Advisory Board). They chose the topic and consulted with theGlobal Foundation in the UnitedStates. The topic is ofgreatest importance for the global energy problem that carries with itcertain problematic issues like waste and possible proliferation of nuclear weapons. These problems have been addressed in the past in this same series of conferences which began in 1977 under the title International Scientific Forum on Energy. The above problems do still constitute a challenge. Despite these shortcomings, nuclear energy is an indispensable source necessary for meeting the global demand as well as avoiding global warming generated by the use of fossil fuels, the consequencesofwhich are irreversible. The French obtain more than eighty percent of their electrical energy from nuclear sources which can be compared to the United States' reliance on only eighteen percent of total energy consumption. The spirits of the approach we have taken in this series of conferences will continue in our 1999Washington, D.C. meeting from November 5-6. We hopeto make further progress. We would like to take this opportunity to record our appreciation to the Electric PowerResearch Institute (EPRI) fortheircontinued financial and intellectual support ofthis series from its inception. BehramN. Kursunoglu StephanL. Mintz ArnoldPerlmutter 5 ABOUTTHEGLOBALFOUNDATION,INC. The Global Foundation, Inc. was established in 1977 and utilizes the world's most important resource . . . people. The Foundation consists of senior men and women in science and learning; outstanding achievers and entrepreneurs from industry, governments, and international organizations; and promising, enthusiastic young people. These people form a unique and distinguished interdisciplinaryentity, and the Foundation is dedicated to assembling all the resources necessary for them to work together. The distinguished senior membersofthe Foundation conveytheirexpertise andaccumulatedexperience, knowledge, and wisdom to the youngermembershipon importantglobal issues andfrontier problems in science. Our work is a common effort, employing the ideas ofcreative thinkers with a wide rangeofexperiencesand viewpoints. GLOBALFOUNDATIONBOARDOFTRUSTEES BehramN. Kursunoglu, Global Foundation. Inc.. Chairman oftheBoard. FormerTrustees Coral Gables Robert Herman, UniversityofTexas Jean Couture, FormerSecretaryof Robert Hofstadter*, StanfordUniversity EnergyofFrance, Paris WalterC. Marshall, LordMarshall of ManfredEigen*, Max-Planck-Institut, Goring Gottingen FrederickReines*, Irvine, California WillisE. Lamb,Jr.*, University of Arizona AbdusSalam*, Trieste, Italy Louis Neel*, Universitede Grenoble, GlennT. Seaborg*, Berkeley, California France EugeneP. Wigner*, Princeton University Frederick Reines*, University of CaliforniaatIrvine LordSollyZuckerman, London, UK Henry KingStanford, PresidentEmeritus. UniversitiesofMiami andGeorgia RichardWilson, Harvard University *NobelLaureate 7 GLOBALFOUNDATION'SRECENTCONFERENCEPROCEEDINGS MakingtheMarketRightfor theEfficientUseofEnergy Editedby: Behram N. Kursunoglu NovaSciencePublishers,Inc., New York, 1992 UnifiedSymmetryin theSmalland in theLarge Editedby: BehramN. Kursunoglu andArnoldPerlmutter NovaSciencePublishers,Inc., New York, 1993 UnifiedSymmetryin theSmalland in the Large- 1 Editedby: Behram N. Kursunoglu, Stephan Mintzand ArnoldPerlmutter PlenumPress, 1994. UnifiedSymmetry in theSmalland in the Large-2 Editedby: BehramN. Kursunoglu, Stephan Mintzand ArnoldPerlmutter Plenum Press, 1995. GlobalEnergy Demand inTransition: TheNew RoleofElectricity Editedby: Behram N. Kursunoglu,StephanMintzand ArnoldPerlmutter PlenumPress, 1996. Economicsand PoliticsofEnergy Editedby: Behram N. Kursunoglu, Stephan MintzandArnoldPerlmutter PlenumPress, 1996. NeutrinoMass, DarkMatter,GravitationalWaves,CondensationofAtomsand Monopoles,LightConeQuantization Editedby: BehramN. Kursunoglu, Stephan Mintzand Arnold Perlmutter PlenumPress, 1996. Technologyfor the GlobalEconomic,EnvironmentalSurvivaland Prosperity Editedby: Behram N. Kursunoglu,StephanMintzand ArnoldPerlmutter PlenumPress, 1997. 25th Coral GablesConferenceonHigh EnergyPhysicsand Cosmology Editedby: BehramN. Kursunoglu, Stephan Mintzand ArnoldPerlmutter PlenumPress, 1997. Environmentand NuclearEnergy Editedby: BehramN. Kursunoglu,Stephan MintzandArnoldPerlmutter PlenumPress, 1998. 9 PhysicsofMass Editedby: BehramN. Kursunoglu, StephanL. Mintzand ArnoldPerlmutter KluwerAcademic /PlenumPublishers,Inc., New York, 1998 ConfluenceofCosmology,MassiveNeutrinos,ElementaryParticles,andGravitation Editedby: BehramN. Kursunoglu, Stephan MintzandArnold Perlmutter PlenumPress, 1999. PreparingtheGroundfor RenewalofNuclearPower Editedby: BehramN. Kursunoglu,Stephan MintzandArnoldPerlmutter PlenumPress, 1999. 10 CONTRIBUTINGCO-SPONSORSOFTHEGLOBALFOUNDATIONCONFERENCES National ScienceFoundation AlphaOmegaResearch Foundation,PalmBeach,Florida PRECIS This conference will focus on the replacement ofexisting nuclear power plants when they will reach theendoftheiruseful life.Thedecision to buildnew plants will have to betaken forthe majorityofexistingplantsduringthenexttwenty years. Thequestions we will discussare: • Will thenuclearplantsbecompetitiveatthistime withothersourcesofenergy? • Willthepublicacceptanceofnuclearpowerbesufficienttoallowtheconstructionof nuclearplants? • Will thedecision makersandthepublictake intoaccountthepositiveaspectsforthe environmentofnuclearenergy(C02issue•...)when makingthedecision ofthe replacementofpresentplants? • We willtrytodiscuss theabovementionedpointsindifferentgeographicalcontexts which meanscountrybycountryorregion byregion. 11 CONFERENCEPROGRAM 7:45AM Registration 8:15AM OPENINGSESSION J.COUTURE (TrusteeoftheGlobalFoundationInc.) WelcomingParticipants B.N.KURSUNOGLU(ChairmanofTheGlobalFoundationInc.)OpeningRemarks C.STARR(FounderandPresidentEmeritusofElectricPowerResearchInstitute) "TheFutureofNuclearPowerandHowtoGetThere" M.DOUCET(SecretaryGeneral,WEC) !0:00AM CoffeeBreak 10:30AM C.PIERRET(SecretaryforIndustry) (KeynoteSpeaker) 10:45AM SESSIONI: NUCLEARCOMPETITIVENESS:THEECONOMICS AND POLITICSOFNUCLEARENERGY Moderators: J.D.LEVI(SeniorVicePresidentofFramatome)and S.T.BREWER(formerPresidentofABBCombustionEngineering) Dissertators: SHELBYBREWER "NuclearBusinessandFinance,inthecontextofmassiverestructuring oftheelectricutilitysectorintheUS" P.SAVELLI(DeputyDirectorGeneral,NuclearEnergyAgency) "NuclearCompetitivenessWorldwide" H.MAEDA(ExecutiveManagingDirector,KansaiElectricPowerCompany) "FutureCompetitivenessofNuclearElectricityinJapan" F.BOUTEILLE(Executive VicePresident,NuclearPowerInternational) "TheFrenchandGermanProjectoftheEuropeanPressurizedwaterReactor (EPR)". Annotators: J.PAFFENBARGER(Electricityexpert-InternationalEnergyAgency)whowill presentacontributiononthepositionofthelEAonelectricitymarketcompetition andnuclearpower SessionOrganizers: VIEILLARDBARON(DirectorofFramatome) SHELBYBREWER 12:30PM LunchBreak:LuncheonSpeaker:C.MANDIL(GeneralDirectorofEnergyandRawMaterials, FrenchMinistryofIndustry). 2:30PM SESSIONII: NUCLEARCOMPETITIVENESS: NUCLEARPOWERPLANT EVOLUTIONS Moderators: S.T. BREWER andB.VIEILLARDBARON Dissertators: P.LECOCQ(Director,EDF) "EDFActionstoImprovetheCompetitivenessofNuclearEnergyintheFuture" G.DAVIS(Director,ABBCombustionEngineering) "CompetitivenessofNuclearPlantsinaderegulatedmarketplace" *Nobel Laureate 13 B.BARRE(VicePresident,Commissariat11l'EnergieAtomique) "ContributionofResearchandDevelopmenttotheNuclearPower Competitiveness" R.W.GALE(ChairmanandCEO,WashingtonInternationalEnergyGroup) "WhyNuclearisCompetitiveandhowitcanstageacomeback?" Annotators: H.FRESLON(VicePresident,NuclearOperations,Framatome) SessionOrganizers: VIEILLARDBARON and SHELBYBREWER 4:15PM CoffeeBreak 4:45PM SESSIONIII SOCIALACCEPTANCE:COMMUNICATION,INFORMATION Moderators: J. PANOSSIAN(executiveDirectorofSFEN)and Y.GAGARINSKI (DeputyDirectorofDAFandKTG) Dissertators: P.HAUG(ExecutiveDirectorofDAFandKTG) "WorkingtowardsPublicAcceptanceinGermany: PastAchievementsand PresentChallenges" S.BJURSTROM(Director-S.K.B.Sweden) "NuclearWasteandPublicOpinion" J.P.CHAUSSADE(SeniorAdvisorofEDF) "NuclearCommunication:HowtomisunderstandtheWantsandNeeds OfPublicOpinion" A.HOWARD (SeniorVicePresidentofNEI,WashingtonDC) "PublicandPolicyMakerSupportforNuclearEnergy" Annotators: J.DELA FERTE(ExternalRelations,NEA-OCDE),D.KYD(Headofpress serviceofIAEA) EARLEMARIEHANSON(LosAlamosNationalLaboratory) SessionOrganizers: J. PANOSSIANandCHARLESYULISH(VicePresident,USEnrichment Corporation) 6:15PM ConferenceAdjournsfortheDay. 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