The Fukushima disaster was a wake-up call for the nuclear industry as well as a shocking revelation of the inner … abandoning nuclear expansion, turning instead to fossil fuels and renewable energy alternatives. While the move away from nuclear … energy was deemed a move critical to political survival in Europe, we find that political candidates running on anti-nuclear …

disaggregated levels of hydroelectric, new renewables, and nuclear energy consumption are tested within a production function …, capital, labor, and hydroelectric/new renewables/nuclear and fossil fuel energy consumption at disaggregated level. The … new renewables, nuclear, fossil fuel, and total non-renewable energy consumption and economic growth, the unidirectional …

environmental impacts of changing the share of electricity generated by nuclear power and varying the mid-term GHG targets. The …

There are several major federal nuclear facilities located in small towns and rural areas of the United States. While … newspaper was completed in relation to a major federal nuclear facility. The content analysis is compared to the results of a … is portrayed in local media and public concern. This study has important implications for other nuclear facilities …

A strategy to enable zero-carbon variable electricity production with full utilization of renewable and nuclear energy … sources has been developed. Wind and solar systems send electricity to the grid. Nuclear plants operate at full capacity with … variable steam to turbines to match electricity demand with production (renewables and nuclear). Excess steam at times of low …

Current UK Government support for nuclear power has in part been informed by cost estimates that suggest that … electricity from new nuclear power stations will be competitive with alternative low carbon generation options. The evidence and … analysis presented in this paper suggests that the capital cost estimates for nuclear power that are being used to inform these …

promote a nuclear power construction programme, a streamlined renewables programmes and a system to ensure that generation … delivering the promised nuclear programme and the system of ‘feed-in tariffs’ announced for renewables is stunted and made less …