Regulatory failures for nuclear safety – the bad example of Japan – implication for the rest of world

Wang, Qiang; Chen, Xi

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2012.01.033

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“…Karmellos et al [19] and González et al [20] studied driving forces of CO 2 emissions from the sector perspective, EU power sector and Spanish electricity sector. Regarding methodologies, there are primarily two approaches to research: econometric analysis [25][26][27][28][29], and decomposition methods [18,[30][31][32][33][34][35]. Two broad categories of decomposition technique are often used in analyzing energy consumption and carbon emissions-index decomposition analysis (IDA) and structural decomposition analysis (SDA) [31,32,36,37].…”

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Multilevel Index Decomposition of Energy-Related Carbon Emissions and Their Decoupling from Economic Growth in Northwest China

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Rapid economic growth in Northwest China has been accompanied by a dramatic increase in carbon emissions. Based on the two-level Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) method, this study decomposes changes in energy-related carbon emissions in Northwest China during 1995-2012 from the regional and provincial perspectives. Further, by constructing an expanded decomposition model of the decoupling index, this paper quantitatively analyzes delinking indicators of economic activity and environmental pressure in Northwest China. The results indicate that: (1) at both regional and provincial levels, economic activity effects play a crucial role in increasing carbon emissions, whereas improvements of energy efficiency appear as the main factor in curbing carbon missions; (2) the significance of influencing factors of CO 2 emissions varies across provinces. The role of economic activity in Shannxi is more pronounced compared to that of the other four provinces, as well as the role of population in Xinjiang; (3) when the decoupling relationship is considered, "relative decoupling" and "no decoupling" are the main characteristics under investigation during the examined period. Whereas "strong decoupling" was only identified in 2007 and 2009; (4) the current extensive pattern of economic growth in Northwest China poses a serious threat to the decoupling process. Furthermore, the coal-based energy structure also hinders the decoupling process. According to these results, some policy recommendations are proposed.

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Multilevel Index Decomposition of Energy-Related Carbon Emissions and Their Decoupling from Economic Growth in Northwest China

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“…The carbon abatement-intensity analysis shows that a scenario with a higher nuclear-penetration share is an economically more effective pathway for reducing the equivalent amount of greenhouse-gas emissions compared to a scenario with a lower nuclear-penetration share. However, to overcome potential barriers and limitations to the rapid expansion of nuclear power (including fuel supply, spent-fuel management, proliferation and safety issues), there is a need for strong international cooperation (technology, and human and physical infrastructure transformation) [57][58][59], coupled with concerted efforts to increase public acceptance [60], and a medium-to long-term emphasis on deployment of advanced reactor technologies (Generation IV and smaller modular reactors) [3,56,61]. Whether this is achievable within the next few decades in many countries remains open for debate and difficult to resolve in a simulation modelling exercise like this.…”

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Global zero-carbon energy pathways using viable mixes of nuclear and renewables

2015

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“…Based on former studies [49,54,[76][77][78][79][80][81][82][83][84][85][86][87], we develop decoupling elasticity model and decoupling efforts model. Using Equations (18)- (20), we calculated the decoupling elasticity and decoupling efforts index.…”

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Decomposition and Decoupling Analysis of Life-Cycle Carbon Emission in China’s Building Sector

Jiang

2017

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Abstract:With accelerating urbanization, building sector has been becoming more important source of China's total carbon emission. In this paper, we try to calculate the life-cycle carbon emission, analyze influencing factors of carbon emission, and assess the delinking index of carbon emission in China's building sector. The results show: (i) Total carbon emission in China's building industry increase from 984.69 million tons of CO 2 in 2005 to 3753.98 million tons of CO 2 in 2013. The average annual growth rate is 18.21% per year. Indirect carbon emission from building material consumption accounted to 96-99% of total carbon emission. (ii) The indirect emission intensity effect was leading contributor to change of carbon emission. The following was economic output effects, which always contributed to increase in carbon emission. Energy intensity effect and energy structure effect took negligible role to offset carbon emission. (iii) Delinking index show the status between carbon emission and economic output in China's building industry during

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Regulatory failures for nuclear safety – the bad example of Japan – implication for the rest of world

Cited by 54 publications

References 13 publications

Multilevel Index Decomposition of Energy-Related Carbon Emissions and Their Decoupling from Economic Growth in Northwest China

Multilevel Index Decomposition of Energy-Related Carbon Emissions and Their Decoupling from Economic Growth in Northwest China

Global zero-carbon energy pathways using viable mixes of nuclear and renewables

Decomposition and Decoupling Analysis of Life-Cycle Carbon Emission in China’s Building Sector

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