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the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident on the body mass index (BMI) and obesity rates of children and any changes over time … the nuclear accident in Fukushima prevented younger primary school children from burning calories. Consequently, younger …
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Major nuclear accidents as recently in Fukushima set nuclear power plant security at the top of the public agenda …. Using data of the German Socio-Economic Panel we analyze the effects of the Fukushima accident and a subsequent government … economic costs of the policy. We find that the Fukushima accident increases the probability to report greater worries about the …
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We explore the impact of an EU-wide nuclear phase-out by 2030 provided the EU energy and climate policy for 2030 is implemented. Using a numerical simulation model of the European energy industry (LIBEMOD), we find that a complete nuclear phase-out in Europe by 2030 has a moderate impact on...
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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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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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