满足日益增长的能源需求，尤其是电力需求，同时满足遏制温室气体排放和确保能源供应安全的需求，是世界面临的最困难挑战之一？中国的经济。没有哪项技术能够应对这一挑战，决策者正在寻求的解决方案在于能源的多样化。尽管核能目前为经合组织地区提供了超过20%的电力，而且在生产过程中不排放任何二氧化碳，但它仍然被许多人视为一项有争议的技术。公众仍然对其安全性和放射性废物的管理感到担忧，为这种资本密集型技术提供资金是一个复杂的问题。核能在未来发挥的作用取决于对这些问题的回答，其中几个问题在对核能现状的最新审查中提供，还取决于核燃料循环和反应堆技术的研究和开发成果。
Nuclear Energy Today
Meeting the growing demand for energy, and electricity in particular, while addressing the need to curb greenhouse gas emissions and to ensure security of energy supply, is one of the most difficult challenges facing the world?s economies. No single technology can respond to this challenge, and the solution which policy-makers are seeking lies in the diversification of energy sources. Although nuclear energy currently provides over 20% of electricity in the OECD area and does not emit any carbon dioxide during production, it continues to be seen by many as a controversial technology. Public concern remains over its safety and the management of radioactive waste, and financing such a capital-intensive technology is a complex issue. The role that nuclear power will play in the future depends on the answers to these questions, several of which are provided in this up-to-date review of the status of nuclear energy, as well as on the outcome of research and development on the nuclear fuel cycle and reactor technologies.
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