In this paper, we investigate both the market reaction soon after the accident and the market reaction when the Nuclear Damage Liability Facilitation Fund Act was passed and signed into law. TEPCO, the damaged electric power company's stock price lost the largest consecutively for direct damage...

In this paper we pursue a novel application of Bayesian empirical likelihood methods to estimate the canonical stochastic frontier model. We utilize this new framework to study technical efficiency, scale economies and technological change in the United States nuclear energy generation sector....

Nuclear power and hydropower form the backbone of low-carbon electricity generation. Together, they provide three-quarters of global low-carbon generation. Over the past 50 years, the use of nuclear power has reduced carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions by over 60 gigatonnes – nearly two years’...

The nuclear energy sector employs a considerable workforce around the world, and with nuclear power projected to grow in countries with increasing electricity demand, corresponding jobs in the nuclear power sector will also grow. Using the most available macroeconomic model to determine total...