Will the spread of nuclear power to new states lead to the spread of nuclear weapons? I argue that the answer will depend on which states get nuclear power, which states acquire sensitive nuclear facilities (uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing) and the rules that govern technology...

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 38-meter tsunami destroyed Tokyo Electric's Fukushima nuclear power complex. The disaster was not a high-damage, low-probability event. It was a high-damage, high-probability event. Massive earthquakes and tsunami assault the coast every...

Debate about the nuclear power project at Jaitapur is ongoing on various levels. Environmental effects and geographical issues have been raised by anti-nuclear activists. Geologists are of the view that Jaitapur is a seismic time bomb and also raised various issues regarding the safety of the...

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...

This paper examines intra-industry information transfers in the European and Japanese electric industry in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear accident. For European conventional utilities, the downward price drift is relatively small and transient in nature. Yet, we find positive and lingering...