Nuclear Energy

Hippel, Frank von; Bunn, Matthew; Diakov, Anatoli; Ding, Ming; Goldston, Robert James; Katsuta, Tadahiro; Ramana, M. V.; Suzuki, Tatsujiro; Yu, Suyuan; McCombie, Charles; Ahearne, John F.

doi:10.1017/cbo9780511793677.020

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“…Three countries draw more than half their electricity from nuclear plants (France leads at 78%, followed by Slovakia and Belgium at 54% each), and ten additional countries, all but one in Europe, draw more than 25% from this source. In the United States, 19% of electricity comes from nuclear plants (220). A full description of the nuclear fuel cycle is beyond the scope of this review.…”

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Energy and Human Health

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Energy use is central to human society and provides many health benefits. But each source of energy entails some health risks. This article reviews the health impacts of each major source of energy, focusing on those with major implications for the burden of disease globally. The biggest health impacts accrue to the harvesting and burning of solid fuels, coal and biomass, mainly in the form of occupational health risks and household and general ambient air pollution. Lack of access to clean fuels and electricity in the world's poor households is a particularly serious risk for health. Although energy efficiency brings many benefits, it also entails some health risks, as do renewable energy systems, if not managed carefully. We do not review health impacts of climate change itself, which are due mostly to climate-altering pollutants from energy systems, but do discuss the potential for achieving near-term health cobenefits by reducing certain climate-related emissions.

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“…Further concerns include the local effects of uranium mining and milling and the management of nuclear waste. The potential for weaponization or terrorist attacks on nuclear fuel cycle facilities, however, pose the most difficult, yet perhaps the largest, risks to quantify and manage (220).…”

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Energy and Human Health

Smith

Frumkin

Balakrishnan

et al. 2013

Annu. Rev. Public Health

230

146

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Technology scale and supply chains in a secure, affordable and low carbon energy transition

Hoggett

2014

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A Biophysical Perspective of IPCC Integrated Energy Modelling

Palmer¹

2018

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The following article conducts an analysis of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), specifically in relation to Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs). We focus on the key drivers of economic growth, how these are derived and whether IAMs properly reflect the underlying biophysical systems. Since baseline IAM scenarios project a three-to eight-fold increase in gross domestic product (GDP)-per-capita by 2100, but with consumption losses of only between 3-11%, strong mitigation seems compatible with economic growth. However, since long-term productivity and economic growth are uncertain, they are included as exogenous parameters in IAM scenarios. The biophysical economics perspective is that GDP and productivity growth are in fact emergent parameters from the economic-biophysical system. If future energy systems were to possess worse biophysical performance characteristics, we would expect lower productivity and economic growth, and therefore, the price of reaching emission targets may be significantly costlier than projected. Here, we show that IAMs insufficiently describe the energy-economy nexus and propose that those key parameters are integrated as feedbacks with the use of environmentally-extended input-output analysis (EEIOA). Further work is required to build a framework that can supplement and support IAM analysis to improve biophysical rigour.

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Nuclear Energy

Cited by 4 publications

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Energy and Human Health

Energy and Human Health

Technology scale and supply chains in a secure, affordable and low carbon energy transition

A Biophysical Perspective of IPCC Integrated Energy Modelling

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