The March 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (the “event”) in Japan has had global repercussions. We conduct a detailed event study on German and French power futures' prices and returns and find that price responses for different underlyings are not significantly...

The Indian Government has announced that it plans to purchase six European Pressurized Reactors (EPRs) for Jaitapur from the French company, Areva. No EPR is in commercial operation anywhere else in the world. Estimates of costs from plants under construction in Finland and France suggest that...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station, which is owned by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), on the stock prices of the other electric power utilities in Japan. Because the other utilities were not directly damaged by...

We analyze managerial discourse in corporate communication (‘CEO-speak') during a six month period following a legitimacy-threatening event in the form of an incident in a German nuclear power plant. As discourses express specific stances expressed by a group of people who share particular...

Using a data set on housing sales transactions we explore the potential effect of the Fukushima disaster on housing prices in Sweden. In contrast to most earlier findings in other countries we do not find any disproportionate effect from the Fukushima disaster on housing prices in vicinity of...

In 2012 Japan experienced several nuclear policy changes, most notably the organization of deliberative polling (DP), and the adoption of an innovative energy and environmental strategy, which included the objective of phasing out nuclear power in the 2030s. How did these large-scale policy...

Egypt is currently planning to introduce nuclear energy for national electricity generation. In this context, this paper provides an economic feasibility assessment of the use of nuclear power to generate electricity in Egypt and identifies the critical factors behind the choice of appropriate...