This review discusses climate hazards and specific risks associated with existing and new nuclear power plants under global warming level futures, with an emphasis on water-based risks for plants that rely on traditional water-cooling processes. Projected hazards, including extreme heatwaves,...

Nuclear power is one of many options available to achieve reduced carbon dioxide emissions likely to be mandated by an (as yet) undefined national climate change policy. Investment costs in nuclear power are greater than in any other conventional generating technology. They are irreversible and...

This paper claims that the 2011 Italian referendum on nuclear power is taking shape as a clean laboratory for the measurement of one of the main aspects of the NIMBY (Not In My BackYard) issue. Since the citizens voted on the possibility for the government to set up new nuclear plants in...