Title: Climate change modelling for nuclear industry in the aspect of energy consumption using system dynamics method

Authors: Tae Ho Woo

Addresses: Department of Mechanical and Control Engineering, The Cyber University of Korea, 106 Bukchon-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul, 03051, Korea

Abstract: The climate change is investigated in the aspect of the priority of nuclear energy consumptions due to the environmentally defects of conventional energies. Some causes of the climate changes are discussed. Regarding the carbon productions, nuclear energy is compared with other energy sources. The causes of climate change are studied as quantities using relevant mathematical formulas. The simulation modelling is performed using system dynamics (SD) where the simple and easy calculations are done. The designed value for nuclear priority by climate change factor increases by 3.5% as 'with human factor' comparing to 'without human factor' in 2050. The graph for annual anomaly weighted by nuclear priority with climate change factor from 2011 to 2050 is shown in which the values increase in the minus values. So, the nuclear energy increasing rate with the climate change factor affects to the temperature change which can show the environmental protection as well as energy supply.

Keywords: climate change; carbon; global warming; system dynamics; SD; nuclear power plants; NPPs.

DOI: 10.1504/IJGW.2018.094553

International Journal of Global Warming, 2018 Vol.16 No.2, pp.136 - 147

Received: 13 Jun 2017
Accepted: 14 Dec 2017
Published online: 06 Sep 2018 *

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