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Measuring nuclear power plant externalities using life satisfaction data : a spatial analysis for Switzerland

Welsch, Heinz; Biermann, Philipp - 2015

estimate the relationship between Swiss citizens' life satisfaction (understood as a proxy of utility) and the distance of … their place of residence from the nearest nuclear power plant. Controlling for a rich set of life satisfaction factors, we … find a statistically and economically significant satisfaction-distance gradient, whose monetary value amounts to CHF 291 …

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Well-being effects of a major negative externality : the case of Fukushima

Rehdanz, Katrin; Welsch, Heinz; Narita, Daiju; Okubo, … - 2013

Following a major earthquake off the Pacific coast of Japan, a tsunami disabled the power supply and cooling of three reactors in Fukushima, causing a major nuclear accident on 11 March 2011. Based on a quasi-experimental difference-in-differences approach we use panel data for 5,979 individuals...

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The long-run consequences of Chernobyl : evidence on subjective well-being, mental health and welfare

Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia - 2014

This paper assesses the long-run toll taken by a large-scale technological disaster on welfare, well-being and mental health. We estimate the causal effect of the 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe after 20 years by linking geographic variation in radioactive fallout to respondents of a nationally...

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The long-run consequences of Chernobyl : evidence on subjective well-being, mental health and welfare

Danzer, Alexander M.; Danzer, Natalia - 2014

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Well-being effects of a major negative externality : the case of Fukushima

Rehdanz, Katrin; Welsch, Heinz; Narita, Daiju; Okubo, … - 2013

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009778505

Fukushima's Shadow

Davies, Lincoln L. - 2016

The March 11, 2011 tragedy at the Fukushima Daiichi power station in Japan immediately etched its place in history as arguably the most noteworthy of the three nuclear energy disasters to date. This Article surveys the response to Fukushima both in Japan and worldwide. It observes that rather...

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A civil super-Manhattan project in nuclear research for a safer and prosperous world

Sornette, Didier - 2015

Humankind is confronted with a "nuclear stewardship curse'', facing the prospect of needing to manage nuclear products over long time scales in the face of the short-time scales of human polities. I propose a super Manhattan-type effort to rejuvenate the nuclear energy industry to overcome the...

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