Improving the ecological footprint of nuclear energy: a risk-based lifecycle assessment approach for critical infrastructure systems

Significance of environmental footprints for evaluating sustainability and security of development

“…Several sub-footprints have also been used, such as Fossil ENF (Stoeglehner and Narodoslawsky 2009), Nuclear ENF (Stoeglehner et al 2005), Renewable ENF (Chen and Lin 2008), Wind Footprint (Magoha 2002), Solar Footprint (Denholm and Margolis 2008), Heat Footprint (Vujanović et al 2014) and others.…”

A Review of Footprint analysis tools for monitoring impacts on sustainability

“…The ENF includes sub-footprints, such as the fossil or fossil energy footprint (Stoeglehner and Narodoslawsky, 2009), nuclear energy footprint (Stoeglehner et al, 2005), renewable energy footprint (Chen and Lin, 2008), wind energy footprint (Santhanam, 2011), solar energy footprint (Brown, 2009), and others.…”

“…In ScienceDirect 1341 articles and in Scopus 1538 articles can be found containing "footprint" and "life cycle assessment" or "LCA", most of them over the last four years. Different studies have been performed using the life cycle approach for ecological footprint (e.g., Huijbregts et al, 2008;Stoeglehner and Narodoslawsky, 2009), water footprint (e.g., Berger and Finkbeiner, 2010;Jeswani and Azapagic, 2011), carbon footprint (e.g., Strohbach et al, 2012;Filimonau et al, 2011), energy footprint (e.g., Woolridge et al, 2006;Chowdhury et al, 2012), and nitrogen footprint (e.g., Xue and Landis, 2010;Cu cek et al, 2012a). Only a few studies have been performed as yet on social footprints (e.g., Hutchins and Sutherland, 2008;Labuschagne and Brent, 2006).…”

Review of combined approaches and multi-criteria analysis for corporate environmental evaluation

“…Instead, complementary indicators must be applied to capture their impact, such as those from the ERA (Kitzes and Wackernagel, 2009), as has been performed by Herva et al (2011aHerva et al ( , 2012 for the ecodesign of products. In this respect, Stoeglehner et al (2005) have made an interesting proposal to assess the EF of nuclear energy on the basis of a life cycle assessment approach by estimating the area likely to be adversely affected by the production of electricity with nuclear energy systems.…”