Report on the European Safety and Environmental Assessment of Fusion Power (SEAFP)

Raeder, J.

doi:10.1016/0920-3796(95)80014-o

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“…Holdren et al 1989;Raeder et al 1995). These studies show that the safety characteristics of fusion reactors will be heavily dependent on an exact technological design.…”

Section: Third: Shaping Orientation and The Power Dimensionmentioning

confidence: 93%

Towards a prospective technology assessment: challenges and requirements for technology assessment in the age of technoscience

Liebert

Schmidt

2010

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The objective of this paper is to contribute to the expanding discourse on conceptual elements of TA. As a point of departure, it takes the recent transformation of the science, technology and innovation system (''technoscience''). We will show that the age of technoscience can be regarded as presenting not only a challenge, but also a chance and opportunity for TA. Embracing this opportunity, however, implies imposing several requirements on TA. In order to specify these requirements and to foster the ongoing discourse on the foundations of TA, this paper suggests a programmatic term: prospective technology assessment (ProTA). This term is intended mainly as a reflection framework, aimed at providing an extension and complement-and not a replacement-of well-established TA concepts. Three requirements for ProTA are sketched: (1) early stage orientation-the temporal dimension, (2) intention and potential orientation-the knowledge dimension, (3) shaping orientation-the power/actor dimension. Examples from fusion and nano research will illustrate the need for ProTA, as well as its specific focus. The paper concedes that ProTA is in its infancy and that there is a clear need for further clarification.Zusammenfassung Dieser Aufsatz möchte einen programmatischen Beitrag zur Theorie-Diskussion der TA leisten. Als deskriptive Basis für eine effektive TA erscheint hierfür die Berücksichtigung der derzeitigen Veränderung des Wissenschafts-, Technologie-und Innovationssystems (,,technoscience'') notwendig. Die Technoscience kann eher als eine Chance für TA denn als ein Problem

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“…Holdren et al 1989;Raeder et al 1995). These studies show that the safety characteristics of fusion reactors will be heavily dependent on an exact technological design.…”

Section: Third: Shaping Orientation and The Power Dimensionmentioning

confidence: 93%

Towards a prospective technology assessment: challenges and requirements for technology assessment in the age of technoscience

Liebert

Schmidt

2010

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“…Beim nächsten großen Schritt der weltweiten Fusionsforschung (IAEA, 1998(IAEA, , 2001, dem internationalen Experimentalreaktor ITER, soll erstmals deutlich mehr Fusionsleistung erzeugt werden als zur Erhitzung des Plasma aufgewendet werden muss. Nach Auswertung des ITER-Experiments könnte in rund 25 Jahren mit dem Bau eines ersten PrototypFusionskraftwerks begonnen werden, mit kommerziellen Kraftwerken wäre in etwa 50 Jahren zu rechnen (Bosch und Bradshaw, 2001 (Bunn, 2002;WISE, 2001 (Cook et al, 2001;Raeder et al, 1995 (Horlacher, 2002;Tab. 3.2-4).…”

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Welt im Wandel: Energiewende zur Nachhaltigkeit

2003

Mitglieder Des Wissenschaftlichen Beirats Der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen

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“…Safety and environmental attractiveness have been major drivers for the past decade, since they are viewed as important discriminators between fission and fusion. The possibility to provide a fusion energy system that can be designed without the need to consider the deep burial of waste or worst-case accidents that affect the public has been established in studies such as ARIES-RS [13] and SEAFP [14].…”

Section: Magnetic Fusion Energy Technology De6elopmentmentioning

confidence: 99%