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Europäische Klimaschutzziele sind auch ohne Atomkraft erreichbar

Kemfert, Claudia; Gerbaulet, Clemens; Hirschhausen, … - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 82 (2015) 45, pp. 1063-1070

plant construction at all, renewables account for 88 percent of powergeneration capacity. Nuclear power was, is, and will …

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Rückbau und Entsorgung in der deutschen Atomwirtschaft : öffentlich-rechtlicher Atomfonds erforderlich

Hirschhausen, Christian R. von; Gerbaulet, Clemens; … - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 82 (2015) 45, pp. 1072-1082

capacity of the repository Konrad for low and medium level radioactive waste, which is currently being built, is too low for … all the waste expected. In order to secure the financing of plant decommissioning and radioactive waste management in the …-term financing, to adhere to the "polluter-pays principle", and to mitigate the financial risks of the society. The German government …

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Atomkraft : Auslaufmodell mit ungelöster Endlagerfrage

Hirschhausen, Christian R. von; Reitz, Felix - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 81 (2014) 13, pp. 267-275

Three years after the nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima one observes a certain momentum with regard to lifetime …

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Nuclear turn : closing down nuclear power plants opens up prospects for the final repository site search

Kendziorski, Mario; Kemfert, Claudia; Präger, Fabian; … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 11 (2021) 47, pp. 359-366

With the closure of the final six nuclear power plants, the commercial use of nuclear energy for electricity generation in Germany will come to an end in 2022. Due to the German power system's sufficient capacities-in 2020, the sector exported 20 terawatt hours (TWh), or about four percent of...

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The economic value of plutonium

Hirschhausen, Christian R. von - 2022

Although plutonium has been studied by different disciplines (such as technology and innovation studies, political sciences) since its discovery, back in 1940 at the University of California (Berkeley), the resource and environmental economic literature is still relatively scarce; neither does the...

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Nuclear power as a system good : organizational models for production along the value-added chain

Wealer, Ben; Hirschhausen, Christian R. von - 2020

Due to its technical complexity, the co-production of electricity generation and nuclear weapons, and its high fixed costs, nuclear power is a particularly complex commodity, which poses unusual challenges for state economic (or industrial, defense, innovation etc.) policy. As in other sectors,...

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Nuclear power, democracy, development, and nuclear warheads : determinants for introducing nuclear power

Sorge, Lars; Neumann, Anne; Hirschhausen, Christian R. von - 2019

This paper analyzes the nature of democratic development in a nation on the process of introducing nuclear power over the period 1960 - 2017 for an unbalanced panel of 171 countries. Given the involved political process of introducing nuclear power and its political importance, as well as the...

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Nuclear power reactors worldwide : technology developments, diffusion patterns, and country-by-country analysis of implementation (1951-2017)

Wealer, Ben; Bauer, Simon; Landry, Nicolas; Seiß, Hannah; … - 2018

Nuclear energy is among the most important innovations of the twentieth century, and it continues to play an important role in twenty-first century discussions. In particular, there is a debate about the potential contribution of nuclear power to policies of climate change mitigation and energy...

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Economics of nuclear power plant investment : Monte Carlo simulations of generation III/III+ investment projects

Wealer, Ben; Bauer, Simon; Göke, Leonard; … - 2019

weighted average cost of capital, and discuss reasonable ranges and distributions of those parameters. We apply the model to ….e. expected net present values are highly negative, mainly driven by high construction costs, including capital costs, and …

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An assessment

Hirschhausen, Christian R. von - 2017

Nuclear power was one of the most important discoveries of the twentieth century, and it continues to play an important role in twenty-first century discussions about the future energy mix, climate change, innovation, proliferation, geopolitics, and many other crucial policy topics. This paper...

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