Environmental Protection through Nuclear Energy
Florian Ion T. Petrescu1, Antonio Apicella2, Relly Victoria V. Petrescu3, Samuel P. Kozaitis4, Ronald B. Bucinell5, Raffaella Aversa2 & Taher M. Abu-Lebdeh6 Show affiliations
- Department of Theory of Mechanisms and Robots, Bucharest Polytechnic University, Bucharest, Romania
- Advanced Materials Lab, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy
- Romanian Society of Robotics, Bucharest branch, Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania
- General Motors Research Laboratory, Florida Institute of Technology, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Florida, United States
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Union College, NY, United States
- North Carolina A and T State Univesity, United States
American Journal of Applied Sciences, Volume 13, Issue 9, pp. 941–946 · doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2016.941.946
Abstract
Environmental protection through implementation of green energies is progressively becoming a daily reality. Numerous sources of green energy were introduced in recent years. Although this process initially started with difficulties, it finally resulted in an acceleration and implementation of new green energy technologies. Nonetheless, new major obstacles are emerging. The most worldwide difficult obstacle encountered, especially for wind and photovoltaic electric power plants, is the not regular and predictable green energy production. This study proposes solutions designed to solve this unpleasant aspect of irregular production of green energy. The basic idea refers to the construction of specially designed nuclear power plants acting as energy buffers. Nuclear power plants, indeed, may behave as proper energy buffers able to work to a minimum capacity when the green energy (i.e., wind power or PV) is steadily produced (namely, when the energy generated by the turbines or PV panels is at full constant capacity) but that can also run at progressively increased capacities when the wind or solar energy production reduces or stops. The work get two major contributions: 1-propose to the achievement of an energy buffer using nuclear power plants (for the moment on nuclear fission); 2-shows some theoretical aspects important needed to carry out the reaction of the fusion.
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Petrescu, F. I. T., Apicella, A., Petrescu, R. V. V., Kozaitis, S. P., Bucinell, R. B., Aversa, R. & Abu-Lebdeh, T. M. (2016). Environmental Protection through Nuclear Energy. American Journal of Applied Sciences, 13(9), 941–946. https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2016.941.946
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