Risks and benefits of nuclear energy
In the context of sustainable development policies, decision making in the energy sector should be based on carefully designed trade-offs which take into account, insofar as feasible, all of the alternative options' advantages and drawbacks from the economic, environmental and social viewpoints...
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| Format: | Government Document |
| Language: | English |
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Paris :
Nuclear Energy Agency, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,
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| Series: | Nuclear development
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Table of Contents:
- Machine derived contents note: 1 Pream ble 1 3
- 1.2 Overall objective 14
- 1.3 Basic approach and scope 14
- 1.4 Structure and content of the report 14
- 2. NUCLEAR ENERGY OTULOOK 17
- 1 Status and trends 17
- 2.2 Nuclear developm ent sce arios 20
- 2.3 Implications for climate policy, role of carbon-free technologies 26
- 4 he way forw ard 27
- R eferences 28
- 3. METHODOLOGY AND ASSESSMENT FRAMWORK 29
- 3.1 Sustainable development concept 29
- 3.2 Indicators 30
- 3.3 Framework and indicators for the energy/electricity sector 32
- R eferen ces 3 5
- 4. ILLUSTRATIVE RESULTS OF ASSESSMENTS 37
- 4.1 introduction 37
- 4.2 Econom ic indicators 38
- 4.3 Environmental indicators 47
- 4 .4 S ocial indicators 56
- References 60
- 5�� EXTERNAL COSTS AND MULT1I-CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS 63
- 5 t1 External costs 63
- 5.2 Internalisation of external costs 68
- 5.3 M ulti-criteria decision analysis 70
- Refernce s :1 : . 7 1
- SADVAN CED N UCLEAR SYSTEM S 75
- 6.1 ntroduction 75
- 6 2 Generation 11111+ systems 75
- 6.3 G ieneration IV system s 76
- 6.4 Concluding remarks 78
- R eferen ce s 7 9
- 7 MAIIN FINDIG 81
- 7.1 R ole of nuclear energy 8
- 7.2 Assessment frameworks and indicators 81
- 7.3 Results for comparative assessments 82
- 74 Decision-aiding tools 82
- 7.5 fechnology progress 82