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Security, justice and the energy crossroads : assessing the implications of the nuclear phase-out in Germany

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Date
30/01/2016
Author
Rehner, Robert Wilhelm Michael
McCauley, Darren
Keywords
Energy transition
Energiewende
Nuclear energy
Enery security
Environmental justice
Energy crossroads
GE Environmental Sciences
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Abstract
The nuclear melt-down in Fukushima resulted in diverging energy policy decisions across the world where Germany decided to opt out of nuclear electricity production. Yet, the government’s decision-making framework for energy policy decisions does not accurately reflect important drivers for the strategy change. This paper presents the Energy Crossroads framework as a more comprehensive tool to analyse the drivers and impacts of the nuclear phase-out. 20 expert interviews were performed across business participants as well as policy makers in the national and international energy context. Results show that Germany has adopted an environmental justice, rather than energy security, stance in their nuclear phase out policy, with significant long-term consequences.
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Rehner , R W M & McCauley , D 2016 , ' Security, justice and the energy crossroads : assessing the implications of the nuclear phase-out in Germany ' , Energy Policy , vol. 88 , pp. 289-298 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2015.10.038
Publication
Energy Policy
Status
Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2015.10.038
ISSN
0301-4215
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This work is made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created, accepted version manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.enpol.2015.10.038
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The authors would like to thank the EPSRC for their grant (EP/I035390/1) on which this work was conducted.
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/9928

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