Recent Global Concern And Basic Considerations For New Entrance Of Developing Countries To Nuclear Power

Over the years, coal, oil and natural gas have been playing the key role as largest sources of energy in both developed and developing countries. Since these energy resources are unevenly distributed in the world, the continued heavy reliance on them has increased dependence on energy imports for a number of countries with consequent balance of payments difficulties, caused rapid replenishment of such valueable resources of supplier countries in tens to hundred of years and thus reduced energy security. Such reliance has also severely degraded the local and regional environment, leading to increased emissions of green house gases. Unfortunately, clean and renewable energy technologies such as photovoltaics, fuel cells, etc are not much developed yet except for commercial applications. On the other hand, an adequate source of energy is one of the major requirements for improving and sustaining human progress, thus the demand for energy, especially electricity, in developing countries is expected to grow more faster compared to developed countries in the coming decades as they seek to develop the economy, human welfare and improve the living standards of their growing population. Recently, these afore-mentioned global energy and environmental pictures put pressures on many developing and developed countries of the world to think and rethink for nuclear power in their overall energy supply mix. By this time, developing countries like China and India, nuclear energ