{"id":35,"date":"2013-07-31T02:06:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T02:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theme-fusion.com\/avada\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2025-02-18T08:03:51","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T08:03:51","slug":"home-version-3","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sitepourvtc.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Power for Everybody"},"content":{"rendered":"
Never memorize something that you can look up.<\/em><\/p>\nAlbert Einstein<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n This website provides you with all the information and context you need to understand nuclear power. The best way to promote nuclear power is to present the facts.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n <\/a>Energy is essential<\/strong>\u00a0for most activities of modern society. Access to abundant, affordable, secure, safe, and clean energy is beneficial for humans. We use energy in the form of firewood, fossil fuels, and electricity to make life comfortable and convenient. Every product you have at home is most likely made of materials, which were obtained from Earth using a lot of energy. At home, we use electricity for our lights and fans, water heater and room heaters, oven, microwave, washing machine, etc. We use petrol, diesel, CNG for our cars, trucks, buses, etc. A large amount of energy is consumed in agriculture and industry.<\/p>\n As of 2018, the world\u2019s main\u00a0primary energy sources<\/a>\u00a0consisted of petroleum (34%), coal (27%), and natural gas (24%), amounting to an\u00a085% share for fossil fuels<\/strong>\u00a0in primary energy consumption in the world.\u00a0A large-scale transition away from fossil energy poses a\u00a0great challenge for society<\/strong>. The current consumption of energy is tremendous. It is hard to imagine that we can rely on one source of energy.<\/p>\n Global direct primary energy consumption in 2020 was about 160,000 TWh (576 exajoules or 545 quadrillions BTU). Assuming that the calorific value of hard coal is 24 GJ \/ t, then we are talking about the equivalent of 24 billion metric tons of coal. That\u2019s about 20 billion cubic meters. This is equivalent to three hundred million wagons of coal or to a mountain of coal 4 times larger than Mount Kilimanjaro.<\/p>\n Energy consumption is growing steadily.<\/b><\/p>\n Global direct primary energy consumption in 2020 was about <\/em>160,000 TWh<\/em><\/strong> (576 exajoules or 545 quadrillions BTU)<\/em>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n This is equivalent to three hundred million wagons of coal or to a mountain of coal 4 times larger than Mount Kilimanjaro<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n We are totally dependent on fossil fuels. <\/b><\/p>\n The world’s main primary energy sources consisted of petroleum (34%), coal (27%), and natural gas (24%), amounting to an 85% share for fossil fuels in primary energy consumption in the world.<\/p>\n <\/b><\/p><\/div><\/div>\nA Brief Story of Technology<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
A Brief Story of Energy<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
To achieve a low-carbon economy without nuclear, renewable electricity<\/a> generation and storage must be really tremendous. <\/em><\/h3>\n
The uncomfortable truth of decarbonisation is we need to dig a lot of stuff out of the ground to make the world cleaner.<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n
How much energy does the world consume?<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n