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Tables of Contents for Environmental Impact of Power Generation
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Historical Overview
1
20
Gordon MacKerron
Introduction
1
1
History
1
2
The Nature and Importance of Environmental Impacts
3
3
Environmental Regulation: the Framework
6
4
Some Important Issues
10
9
Conclusions
19
2
Impact of Power Generation on Air Quality
21
22
Bernard E. A. Fisher
Introduction
21
4
Trends in Emissions
25
1
Dispersion and Dilution
26
2
Fraction of Smoke and SO2 Leaving the Country
28
2
Lifetime of SO2
30
1
Proportionality between Emissions and Deposition
31
1
Critical Loads
32
1
International Agreements on Transboundary Pollution
33
3
Road Transport Pollution in the 1990s
36
3
Local Air Quality Management
39
2
Climate Change
41
1
Conclusions
42
1
Environmental Performance of the Liberalized UK Power Industry
43
18
Stephen Adrain
Ian Housley
Introduction
43
1
Policy
43
3
Policy Implementation---ISO 14001 and EMAS
46
3
Meeting Legislative Requirements
49
1
Impact of New EU Legislation and International Standards
50
6
Environmental Performance Post Privatization
56
2
Towards Sustainability
58
3
BPEO Approaches to the Design and Siting of Power Stations
61
12
Colin Powlesland
The BPEO Concept
61
1
BPEO Assessment Procedure
62
1
Assessment Methodology
63
8
Conclusions
71
2
Environmental Impact of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle
73
24
Malcolm J. Joyce
Simon N. Port
Introduction
73
1
Radiological Impact
74
16
Non-radiological Environmental Impact
90
4
Future Implications and Summary
94
1
Glossary
95
2
Electric and Magnetic Fields and Ecology
97
16
David Jeffers
Introduction
97
2
Electric Fields at the Conductor Surface
99
1
Electric Fields and their Effects
99
4
Electric Fields at Ground Level
103
3
Magnetic Fields
106
1
Some Non-field Issues
107
1
Studies of Plants and Animals in the Vicinity of Transmission Lines
107
2
Biological Mechanisms
109
1
Electric and Magnetic Fields and Health
110
1
Limitations on Exposure
111
1
Conclusions
111
2
Energy Efficiency and Conservation
113
18
Andrew Warren
Introduction to Least Cost Planning
113
5
Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) as an Instrument of Strategic Utility Planning
118
4
Accounting for the Environmental Externalities of Electricity Production---A Summary of USA Practice
122
1
Monetization Using Damage Costs
123
3
Monetization Using Control Costs
126
2
Damage Costs versus Control Costs for Policy Purposes
128
1
Unpriceable Environmental Costs
129
1
References
129
2
Subject Index
131