Monetizing Environmental Impacts of Nuclear Power: Cost-Benefit Analysis Using Social Cost of Carbon

This paper conducts a comprehensive cost-benefit analysis of nuclear energy’s contribution to climate change mitigation, with a focus on its potential to reduce the social cost of carbon (SCC). For 31 countries, we employ a four-step methodology to estimate SCC, comparing it against the lifetime cos...

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Main Authors: Sung-Tae Lee, Sun-Moon Jung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2024-11-01
Series:SAGE Open
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440241301468