This study examines how economic growth, travel, global connection, and changes in population impact the environmental footprint in seven countries, including Russia, the US, China, France, the UK, Pakistan, and India, from 1995 to 2023. The results show a significant link between Granger’s...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a transformative force in advancing technological progress, with profound implications for energy efficiency and sustainable development. This pioneering study explores the joint impact of AI and green patents (GPT) on RENE across 34 countries from...

Nuclear energy is a technology that has long been subject to controversy, shaped by major global events, shifting public opinion and volatile policy agendas. Among industrialised democracies, Italy is a particularly distinctive case. Following a pioneering role in the 1950s and an ambitious,...

Fusion energy, the energy that powers the stars, is now almost within our grasp. Most recent timelines agree on the second half of the 2030s for the realisation of a Fusion Energy pilot plant. For this clean, virtually carbon-neutral energy source to contribute to the mitigation of the climate...

I estimate the cross-border effects of Swedish nuclear outages using hourly data on day-ahead prices, generation, and consumption across 15 bidding zones in Northern Europe from 2021 to 2024. I exploit unplanned outages as exogenous variation in nuclear supply and find that a 1 GW reduction in...

Nuclear fusion research shifts focus: commercial niche products instead of energy generation. Nuclear fusion, in which atomic nuclei are fused, promises clean, safe, and virtually inexhaustible energy. Since the 1950s, this promise has justified extensive public investment in research, without...

This paper reviews the case of nuclear energy. Currently, the worldworld is facing one of the greatest energy crises due to the Russo-Ukrainian war. This conflict has lead to limited sources of gas, causing a dramatic decrease in energy supply, leading to emerging energy crisis risks. This is...

This study examines how economic growth, travel, global connection, and changes in population impact the environmental footprint in seven countries, including Russia, the US, China, France, the UK, Pakistan, and India, from 1995 to 2023. The results show a significant link between Granger’s...

Ghana's energy transition illustrates the broader challenge of integrating renewable energy into fossil fuel-dependent economies. Despite successive policy commitments, the country has consistently prioritised fossil fuels and, more recently, nuclear power over new sources of renewable energy...

Systematic analysis and evaluation of nuclear energy development serves as a cornerstone in shaping national nuclear science and technology strategies. This study undertakes a comparative investigation of global nuclear energy modeling paradigms, aiming to elucidate methodological strengths and...

Many governments consider new nuclear power plants to promote decarbonization. On the one hand, dispatchable nuclear plants can complement fluctuating generation from wind and PV. On the other hand, escalating construction costs and times raise economic concerns. This paper investigates the...

Following the suggestion by German federal ministries the Joint Research Centre (JRC) gathered relevant stakeholders for a series of workshops on maintaining and developing nuclear competences in Germany. On 6 June 2024 the series started with an online workshop format that was followed by two...

This study analyzes the adoption and implementation of Türkiye's nuclear energy policy. Türkiye entered the nuclear energy league via the build-own-operate scheme, which has impeded the country's goals of technological development and national industry growth. The country has focused on...

In recent months, there has been an intensifying debate over whether Europe can still rely on US extended nuclear deterrence or should begin to consider alternatives that are independent of Washington. A binary approach - trust or no trust - is of limited analytical value here; the subject matter...

The United States under President Donald Trump has adopted an ambiguous position on European security. Although no immediate risk of abandonment is apparent, European countries are rethinking their defence strategies in case the US declines to support them, or provides only partial support, in a...

In response to global challenges posed by climate change and the urgent need to transition toward sustainable energy sources, this study aims to understand societal risk perceptions associated with both established and emerging energy systems. Utilizing the analytical hierarchy process (AHP), a...

The gender pension gap, the difference in pension entitlements between men and women, is 32 percent for 60-yearolds according to data from the German Pension Insurance (Deutsche Rentenversicherung). In addition, there is a considerable motherhood pension gap: Statutory pension entitlements for...

Using the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan, where about 456 nuclear tests occurred between 1949 and 1989, this paper examines the long-term health and well-being impacts of sustained radiation exposure. Results show that nuclear exposure significantly increases the risk of chronic disease...

The U.S. nuclear industry has overcome a challenging period during which low wholesale market prices threatened the survival of nuclear power plants (NPPs). From 2017 to 2019, several U.S. states initiated out-of-market support schemes to bolster the financial conditions of NPPs. This paper...

The increasing energy demand and climate change concerns are making the role of low-carbon resources increasingly strategic in energy policies. In this context, this study aims to analyze nuclear energy's short and long-run impacts on carbon emissions using the Fourier Nonlinear ARDL method. The...

Meeting the need for large-scale geographically concentrated industrial heat demand poses a unique challenge. Unlike the power sector, which can transmit electricity over long distances via established grids, the heat distribution faces significant infrastructure costs and heat losses at high...

This study employs the MT-NARDL framework to analyze Finland's ecological footprint across GDP regimes, renewable and nuclear energy use, and urbanization. Findings confirm a nonlinear GDP-environment relationship: low GDP growth worsens ecological pressure, moderate growth offers temporary...

In this study, a multimodal analytical framework is proposed to investigate public sentiment and sustainability perceptions towards nuclear power through social media data mining. By integrating deep learning-based sentiment analysis and topic modelling, dynamic patterns of public attitudes are...

The growing support for nuclear energy and the emerging hype around the early small modular reactor (SMR) plans could be leaving the social implications of SMRs for less attention. Focusing on gender differences, we investigate the acceptability and perceived safety of SMRs. Our research data...

While the European Union (EU) and other Western nations are weaning themselves off the Kremlin's fossil energy resources, global nuclear energy producers remain closely tied to Russia's nuclear industry. One in four nuclear reactors worldwide is connected to Russia (either operating...

Nuclear energy remains a promising option for the Philippines. But as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has reiterated, deciding to use nuclear energy is a long-term commitment and one that should consider a time frame of 100 years from construction to decommissioning and waste...

The opposition in a number of countries to the inclusion of nuclear energy in a sustainable energy portfolio, in part due to the dread of what the “nuclear” word inspires, has limited quantitative scientific foundation of the real benefits and risks. This has been amplified by the lack of a...