글로벌 에너지 환경에서의 원자력 에너지: 지속 가능성 발전과 에너지 안보 보장?(NUCLEAR ENERGY IN THE GLOBAL ENERGY LANDSCAPE: ADVANCING SUSTAINABILITY AND ENSURING ENERGY SECURITY?)
본 보고서는 원자력에너지의 지속가능 발전으로서의 역할에 대해 소개하고 있습니다.
The climate crisis is one of the defining challenges of this generation. Yet countries are not on track in their efforts to limit global
warming. In order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the pathways outlined by the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC), all available options must be pursued.
Analysis by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD’s) Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA)
demonstrates that tripling global installed nuclear capacity is part of a realistic path to meet net-zero goals by 2050 and to keep
the rise in global mean temperatures below 1.5°C. Such an increase in nuclear capacity could avoid more than 80 gigatonnes of
cumulative emissions between 2024 and 2050 through a combination of the long-term operation (LTO) of existing reactors, new
large-scale reactor builds, and the deployment of small modular reactors (SMRs). By 2050, nuclear energy could thus displace
5 gigatonnes of emissions each year, which is more than the annual emissions of the economy of the United States today.