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Sabine Roeser - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Ethics of Nuclear Energy: Risk, Justice, and Democracy in the post-Fukushima Era - The Ethics of Nuclear Energy: Risk, Justice, and Democracy in the Post-Fukushima Era
2015Co-Authors: Behnam Taebi, Sabine RoeserAbstract:1. The ethics of Nuclear Energy: an introduction Behnam Taebi and Sabine Roeser Part I. Risk: 2. Nuclear Energy and the ethics of radiation protection Sven Ove Hansson 3. The unknowable ceilings of safety: three ways that Nuclear accidents escape the calculus of risk assessments John Downer 4. Rights to know and the Fukushima, Chernobyl, and Three Mile Island accidents Kristin Shrader-Frechette 5. Gender, ethical voices, and UK Nuclear Energy policy in the post-Fukushima era Karen Henwood and Nick Pidgeon Part II. Justice: 6. The need for a public 'explosion' in the ethics of radiological protection, especially for Nuclear power Stephen M. Gardiner 7. Distributive versus procedural justice in Nuclear waste repository siting Pius Krutli, Kjell Tornblom, Ivo Wallimann-Helmer and Michael Stauffacher 8. Nuclear Energy, justice, and power: the case of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station license renewal Bindu Panikkar and Ronald Sandler 9. Non-anthropocentric Nuclear Energy ethics John Nolt Part III. Democracy: 10. Morally experimenting with Nuclear Energy Ibo van de Poel 11. Global Nuclear Energy and international security Thomas E. Doyle, II 12. Nuclear Energy, the capability approach, and the developing world Paolo Gardoni and Colleen Murphy 13. The role of Nuclear Energy in the future Energy landscape: Energy scenarios, Nuclear Energy and sustainability Rafaela Hillerbrand Bibliography Index.
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Nuclear Energy, Risk, and Emotions
Philosophy & Technology, 2011Co-Authors: Sabine RoeserAbstract:The pictures of the Nuclear disaster in Fukushima are in our minds and are updated daily. People from around the world feel compassion for the Japanese, who have had to cope with a triple disaster: earthquake, tsunami, and Nuclear accident. At the moment of writing this piece, it is far from clear how the latter of this apocalyptic triad will end. In the meantime, the debate about Nuclear Energy has taken an unexpected turn. In the last few years, there was a growing consensus that Nuclear Energy would be the solution to generate Energy without CO2 emissions. The probability of an accident was said to be negligible. However, now that an accident has occurred, many people wonder whether Nuclear Energy is a really wise option (cf., e.g., Macilwain 2011). Germany immediately shut down several Nuclear reactors, and the German Green Party achieved unprecedented results in the local elections due to its anti-Nuclear position. Nevertheless, there seems to be one constant factor in the debate about Nuclear Energy: proponents call opponents badly informed, emotional, and irrational, using these notions more or less as synonyms. However, such rhetoric denigrates and hinders a real debate about Nuclear Energy. In addition, it is simply wrong to equate emotions with irrationality, as they can be a source of practical rationality. I will argue that rather than being an obstacle to a meaningful debate about Nuclear Energy, emotions can be an important source of ethical insight that should be taken seriously. Often when a new technology is introduced, a typical pattern can be observed: society is alarmed and worried about its risky aspects, whereas experts assure them that the risks are negligible. Policy makers typically respond to this in two ways: either they ignore the emotions of the public or they take them as a reason to prohibit
Yemane Wolde-rufael - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Nuclear Energy Consumption and Economic Growth in Taiwan
Energy Sources Part B: Economics Planning and Policy, 2012Co-Authors: Yemane Wolde-rufaelAbstract:Abstract This article tests the causal relationship between Nuclear Energy consumption and real gross domestic product for Taiwan for the period 1977–2007 within a vector autoregressive (VAR) framework by including capital and labor as additional variables. Using a modified version of the Granger causality test due to Toda and Yamamoto (1995), we find no causality running in any direction between economic growth and Nuclear Energy consumption, which suggested that the neutrality hypothesis is accepted. Innovation accounting (variance decomposition and impulse response function) analysis further confirms that Nuclear Energy consumption played a minor role in the economic development of Taiwan. The policy implication is that measures adopted to mitigate the adverse effects of Nuclear Energy consumption may be taken without harming economic growth. However, these results should be interpreted with care, as they may not be sufficiently robust enough to support the inference that Nuclear Energy consumption pla...
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Nuclear Energy consumption and economic growth in nine developed countries
Energy Economics, 2010Co-Authors: Yemane Wolde-rufael, Kojo MenyahAbstract:This article attempts to test the causal relationship between Nuclear Energy consumption and real GDP for nine developed countries for the period 1971-2005 by including capital and labour as additional variables. Using a modified version of the Granger causality test developed by Toda and Yamamoto (1995), we found a unidirectional causality running from Nuclear Energy consumption to economic growth in Japan, Netherlands and Switzerland; the opposite uni-directional causality running from economic growth to Nuclear Energy consumption in Canada and Sweden; and a bi-directional causality running between economic growth and Nuclear Energy consumption in France, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States. In Spain, the United Kingdom and the USA, increases in Nuclear Energy consumption caused increases in economic growth implying that conservation measures taken that reduce Nuclear Energy consumption may negatively affect economic growth. In France, Japan, Netherlands and Switzerland increases in Nuclear Energy consumption caused decreases in economic growth, suggesting that Energy conservation measure taken that reduce Nuclear Energy consumption may help to mitigate the adverse effects of Nuclear Energy consumption on economic growth. In Canada and Sweden Energy conservation measures affecting Nuclear Energy consumption may not harm economic growth.
Fabienne Crettaz Von Roten - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Society, Politics and Nuclear Energy in Switzerland
2013Co-Authors: Fabienne Crettaz Von RotenAbstract:After the Fukushima accident, the Swiss Federal Council opted for withdrawal from Nuclear Energy in the horizon 2035. Considering that this decision cannot be studied in historical isolation, this article describes the evolution of the relationship between Nuclear Energy and the Swiss society by highlighting four distinctive periods: the social mobilisation of the seventies and eighties, the turning point of the nineties, the Nuclear revival in the late 2000s and the Fukushima accident. To describe this relationship, we will analyse social mobilisation and the results of initiatives and empirical studies related to Nuclear Energy in Switzerland.
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Society, Politics and Nuclear Energy in
2013Co-Authors: Fabienne Crettaz Von RotenAbstract:After the Fukushima accident, the Swiss Federal Council opted for withdrawal from Nuclear Energy in the horizon 2035. Considering that this decision cannot be studied in historical isolation, this article describes the evolution of the relationship between Nuclear Energy and the Swiss society by highlighting four distinctive periods: the social mobilisation of the seventies and eighties, the turning point of the nineties, the Nuclear revival in the late 2000s and the Fukushima accident. To describe this relationship, we will analyse social mobilisation and the results of initiatives and empirical studies related to Nuclear Energy in Switzerland.
James E. Payne - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A panel study of Nuclear Energy consumption and economic growth
Energy Economics, 2010Co-Authors: Nicholas Apergis, James E. PayneAbstract:This study examines the relationship between Nuclear Energy consumption and economic growth for sixteen countries within a multivariate panel framework over the period 1980-2005. Pedroni's (1999, 2004) heterogeneous panel cointegration test reveals there is a long-run equilibrium relationship between real GDP, Nuclear Energy consumption, real gross fixed capital formation, and the labor force with the respective coefficients positive and statistically significant. The results of the panel vector error correction model finds bidirectional causality between Nuclear Energy consumption and economic growth in the short-run while unidirectional causality from Nuclear Energy consumption to economic growth in the long-run. Thus, the results provide support for the feedback hypothesis associated with the relationship between Nuclear Energy consumption and economic growth.
David J. Hill - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Nuclear Energy for the future
Nature Materials, 2008Co-Authors: David J. HillAbstract:Nuclear Energy offers a low-carbon footprint and less dependence on fossil fuel, but several materials challenges must be met to advance Nuclear technology.
