Why this book matters
Germany faces the challenge of securing a climate-neutral energy supply. The book highlights that there is a significant gap between ambitious energy transition targets and technological reality.
Renewable energies make a signifikant contribution today, but cannot guarantee a stabel and base-load-cabable supply on their own. Without complementary solutions, dependencies, high electricity prices and insufficient storage capacities persist.
Key topics
The volume discusses novel nuclear technologies (NNT) as potential building blocks of a sustainable, greenhouse gas-free energy future – always in interaction with renewables, storage requirements and security of supply.
- Nuclear fission and fusion: Principles, technological challenges and development timelines of advanced reactor concepts
- Interfaces with renewables: Controllable, low-carbon power to compensate for the volatility of wind and solar energy
- Applications: Base-load for electricity generation, hydrogen production, heat supply and industrial processes
- Waste management: No long-lived radioisotopes during fusion, Transmutation as an approach to reduce long-lived radioactive waste and treat spent fuel as a resource
- Economic and societal dimensions: System costs, energy security, education, technology acceptance and public debate
Recommendations for the future
The book identifies gaps in the energy policy debate and formulates ten concrete recommendations for policymakers, science and society. They aim to contribute to a realistic, secure and Greenhouse-gas low and thereby future-proof energy supply.
Availability
- Digital edition: Free PDF [https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/1766743 | 10 MB]
- Print edition: From September 2025 in bookstores (EUR 29)
- ISBN: 978-3-95884-095-9
- DOI: 10.14459/2025md1766743
- Publisher: TUM.University Press