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Is a low-carbon energy source that is already available today for further expansion.
What is Nuclear Energy?
100
Has been the mechanism involved in the regulation of nuclear liability issues all around the world, adopted in 1963, ratified and updated after the Chernobyl disaster of 1986.
What is Vienna Convention on Civil Liability
100
At least 35% of the energy produced in Mexico should come from “clean sources” by 2024
What was established in the last Mexican energy reform?
100
Terrorism and Natural disasters
What are the possible risks in Mexico?
100
is the flagship design from Westinghouse. Although majority owned by Toshiba of Japan, Westinghouse is headquartered in the United States. Is an advanced pressurised water reactor with a capacity of approximately 1 200 MW.
What is the AP-1000 (advanced pressurised water reactor)?
200
Nuclear reactors do not emit the gases that cause global warming and smog; they produce affordable power; and they are designed to operate continuously.
What are the benefits of Nuclear Energy?
200
Was singed in 1988, and its objective was to make of the Vienna Convention an effective mechanism that cover all the liability issues that might arise in the event of the nuclear accident
What is Joint Protocol of Vienna and Paris Convention?
200
From 1969 to 1996 the number of acute deaths per TWh resulting from major accidents for the most important forms of electricity production favors nuclear energy. (Coal: 0,04 ; Oil: 0,04 ; Hydroelectric 0,10 ; Nuclear 0,00)
How do severe accidents in nuclear plants fare in comparison to other types of energy plants?
200
The Laguna Verde power plant was not deemed "secure enough". The lack of resources into the project hampered the capacitation of the personnel and also the availability of spare parts for whenever a repair is needed
What is the revision of Laguna Verde after the Fukushima incident?
200
is the principal offering from AREVA, the master European nuclear industry group which is majority owned by the French state. It will have an output of 1 600 to 1 700 MW.
What is the EPR (advanced pressurised water reactor)?
300
the two types are pressurized water reactors and boiling water reactors.
What is light water nuclear reactors?
300
Include establishing a system for regulating, licensing and monitoring nuclear activities and facilities
What is the legal requirements?
300
Nuclear Energy offers one of the lowest deaths/TWh margin
How dangerous is nuclear energy?
300
The government of Mexico doesn’t have the sufficient resources needed to meet the safety requirements of the nuclear plant and should consider in the first place other needs such as national security, education, and employment.
What is the optimal way to spent economical resources?
300
is the only one of the new designs already in operation, with four units in Japan. These units have outputs in the 1 300 MW range, but up to 1 600 MW versions are offered.
What is the ABWR (Advanced Boiling Water Reactor)?
400
They can generate emission-free electricity in remote locations. They can be built completely finished in a factory and delivered and installed at the site in modules
What is small reactors?
400
Will facilitate the know-how, the necessary legislation implied in the implementation, technology, raw materials, nuclear waste control
What is Internation Co-operation?
400
An open social debate by which the population may know the risks, technical, social and political difficulties that arise from a nuclear power energy plan and this would also help choose the best path to apply it.
What is needed to regain public confidence in nuclear energy?
400
This groups are looking for the shut down of the Laguna Verde plant, take the same measures as Germany and Venezuela did with respect to their energy projects and current plants, and bet on sustainable energy alternatives.
What is Greenpeace and Mother of Veracruz?
400
Is the newest version of the VVER series of PWR designs produced by the Russian nuclear industry , output of about 1 100 MW.
What is the VVER-1200?
500
Especially suited for providing heat for industrial purposes like hydrogen production and also in the development of tar sands, oil shale and coal-to-liquids applications.
What is High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Reactors?
500
It is an initiative taken by the national nuclear regulatory authorities of ten countries, with the support of the NEA, aimed at making more effective use of the resources and knowledge of the authorities tasked with the review of new nuclear plant designs
What is Multinational Design Evaluation Programme?
500
This would help determine the amount of capital available and the energetic impact that could be made with it, also it’d offer an idea about the time of recovery of said capital and the type of nuclear plants that should be built.
Why a deep economic and financial analysis of Mexico is needed?
500
Concluded that radiological controls are insufficient to prevent unintended exposure of personnel, monitoring techniques used by workers, supervisors and technicians in radiation are insufficient to prevent the spread of contamination, and that safety culture is not an issue recognized on the ground of the company.
What is the investigation of Laguna Verde?
500
Is the latest Korean PWR design, with 1 340 MW.
What is The APR-1400?