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DOI | 10.1016/j.enpol.2017.02.052 |
Quantifying the social costs of nuclear energy: Perceived risk of accident at nuclear power plants | |
Huhtala, Anni; Remes, Piia | |
2017-06-01 | |
发表期刊 | ENERGY POLICY |
ISSN | 0301-4215 |
EISSN | 1873-6777 |
出版年 | 2017 |
卷号 | 105 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Finland |
英文摘要 | The preferences expressed in voting on nuclear reactor licenses and the risk perceptions of citizens provide insights into social costs of nuclear power and decision making in energy policy. We show analytically that these costs consist of disutility caused by unnecessary anxiety - due to misperceived risks relating to existing reactors and where licenses for new nuclear reactors are not granted, delayed or totally lost energy production. Empirical evidence is derived from Finnish surveys eliciting explicitly the importance of risk perceptions on preferences regarding nuclear power and its environmental and economic impacts. We show that the estimated marginal impact of a high perceived risk of nuclear accident is statistically significant and that such a perception considerably decreases the probability of a person supporting nuclear power. This result holds across a number of robustness checks including an instrumental variable estimation and a model validation by observed voting behavior of the members of Parliament. The public's risk perceptions translate into a significant social cost, and are likely to affect the revenues, costs and financing conditions in the nuclear power sector in the future. |
英文关键词 | Economics Vote Nuclear accident Subjective risks Probabilities Instrumental variable |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E ; SSCI |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000400532900031 |
WOS关键词 | GENDER-DIFFERENCES ; PROSPECT-THEORY ; ATTITUDES ; UNCERTAINTIES ; CONSEQUENCES ; PREFERENCES ; PERCEPTIONS ; ECONOMICS ; IDEOLOGY ; WELFARE |
WOS类目 | Economics ; Energy & Fuels ; Environmental Sciences ; Environmental Studies |
WOS研究方向 | Business & Economics ; Energy & Fuels ; Environmental Sciences & Ecology |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/17960 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | VATT Inst Econ Res, Helsinki, Finland |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Huhtala, Anni,Remes, Piia. Quantifying the social costs of nuclear energy: Perceived risk of accident at nuclear power plants[J]. ENERGY POLICY,2017,105. |
APA | Huhtala, Anni,&Remes, Piia.(2017).Quantifying the social costs of nuclear energy: Perceived risk of accident at nuclear power plants.ENERGY POLICY,105. |
MLA | Huhtala, Anni,et al."Quantifying the social costs of nuclear energy: Perceived risk of accident at nuclear power plants".ENERGY POLICY 105(2017). |
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