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Energy plays a vital role in the global economy: fossil fuel dependency, the stability of the supply chain, and the prospects for harnessing previously untapped resources affect a range of policy concerns, from national security and international affairs to economic development and climate change. RAND's energy research covers the spectrum from energy conservation and security to emerging technologies and energy use by the U.S. armed forces.

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Mexico’s Petroleum and U.S. Policy: Implications for the 1980s

This report analyzes key factors that will influence Mexico's future petroleum policies, projects expected policy outcomes, and assesses the implications of these policies for U.S. interests, objectives, and options for the 1980s.

Jan 1, 1980
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Reducing U.S. vulnerability to oil supply disruptions

Dependence of the United States on imported oil poses two interrelated but distinct problems: chronic economic losses to the U.S. economy, and vulnerability to supply disruptions. The synthetic fuels program, conservation measures, and phased decon...

Jan 1, 1980
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Evaluating Time-of-Day Electricity Rates for Residential Customers

If it cost nothing to meter and bill customers for electricity use during peak and off-peak hours, time-of-day (TOD) pricing would improve the efficient use of resources and result in more equitable billing.

Nov 1, 1979
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Evaluating nuclear power : voter choice on the California Nuclear Energy Initiative

Evaluating nuclear power : voter choice on the California Nuclear Energy Initiative

Jan 1, 1979
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Evaluating nuclear power : voter choice on the California Nuclear Energy Initiative, executive summary

Evaluating nuclear power : voter choice on the California Nuclear Energy Initiative, executive summary

Jan 1, 1979
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Evaluating nuclear power : voter choice on the California Nuclear Energy Initiative, technical appendixes

Evaluating nuclear power : voter choice on the California Nuclear Energy Initiative, technical appendixes

Jan 1, 1979
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Soviet Nuclear Energy: Domestic and International Policies

Brought together here are data on Soviet agreements for nuclear cooperation, nuclear power plants in the USSR, characteristics of Soviet reactor designs, enrichment services, and projected plutonium production and uranium consumption for the USSR ...

Jan 1, 1979
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The outlook for conventional petroleum resources

Focuses on general approaches to world petroleum resource assessment. The author establishes the nature and concentration of petroleum reserves and the efficiency of modern petroleum exploration. He demonstrates that conventional petroleum resource a...

Jan 1, 1979
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A Comparison of the Capital Costs of Light Water Reactor and Liquid Metal Fast Breeder Reactor Power Plants

One input into an overall study designed to estimate the relative costs of generating electricity by light water reactors (LWR) and liquid metal fast breeder reactors (LMFBR).

Jan 1, 1979
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Average Cost Pricing of Natural Gas: A Problem and Three Policy Options

Current regulation of wholesale and retail natural gas encourages overconsumption of gas and discourages desirable entry of solar heaters, heat pumps, and other "new" residential and commercial energy technologies.

Jan 1, 1978
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An Examination of Alternative Nuclear Breeding Methods

Examines the relative costs of four possible means of producing electrical energy-- (LWR), (LMFBR), the fusion hybrid reactor, and the accelerator-driven reactor coupled with thermal converter reactors.

Jan 1, 1978
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Soviet energy balances

Soviet energy balances

Jan 1, 1978
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International institutions for nuclear energy: issues of assessment and design

If one objective of anti-proliferation policies is to assure that fuel cycle pathways to nuclear explosives are more costly than indigenous pathways, then it would be appropriate: (1) to retrofit existing institutions and revise international rules-...

Jan 1, 1978
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Rules-of-trade for international nuclear commerce

The rules-of-trade are those treaties, laws, agreements, and regulations pertaining to international transfers of nuclear material, equipment, technology, or personnel. They are needed to assure that international commerce in nuclear energy will not...

Jan 1, 1978
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International Cooperation in Nuclear Fuel Services: European and American Approaches

Discusses Western European international cooperation in production of nuclear fuel services, particularly multinational uranium enrichment, spent fuel reprocessing, plutonium production for and by breeder reactors, and waste disposal.

Jan 1, 1978
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Application of Electron Beams in Space for Energy Storage and Optical Beam Generation

Examination is made of the potential for in-space-propagated electron beams for storage rings that buffer solar energy collected in low-orbit-altitude satellites.

Jan 1, 1978
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The Military Utility of Very Large Airplanes and Alternative Fuels

Very large airplanes using alternative fuels are examined in the context of existing and possible future U.S. Air Force missions.

Sep 1, 1977
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Electric Utility Decisionmaking and the Nuclear Option.

Electric Utility Decisionmaking and the Nuclear Option.

Jan 1, 1977
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Regulation of Nuclear Power: The Case of the Light Water Reactor

Chronicles the regulatory history of the commercial power reactor from 1954 through 1974.

Jan 1, 1977
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Nuclear Reactors for Generating Electricity: U.S. Development from 1946 to 1963

Between 1946 and 1963, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) managed nuclear reactor research and development and, beginning in 1955, conducted the Power Reactor Demonstration Program.

Jan 1, 1977

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