Greenhouse gas emissions in the nuclear life cycle: A balanced appraisal

Energy Policy

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 5056-5068

  Beerten, Jef ^a   Laes, Erik ^b   Meskens, Gaston ^b   D'haeseleer, William ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b BELGIAN NUCLEAR RESEARCH CENTRE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Greenhouse gas emissions; Life cycle assessment; Nuclear

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENT PROCESS; DIRECT EMISSIONS; ENERGY CONVERSION TECHNOLOGIES; ENERGY USE; FUEL CYCLE; GHG EMISSION; INPUT DATAS; LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENT; LIFE-CYCLE ASSESSMENTS; NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLES;

ENERGY CONVERSION; GAS EMISSIONS; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; GREENHOUSES; LEAKAGE (FLUID); LIFE CYCLE; NUCLEAR ENERGY; NUCLEAR FUEL REPROCESSING; NUCLEAR FUELS; WIND POWER;

CARBON MONOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON EMISSION; EMISSION CONTROL; ENERGY USE; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GAS; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR POWER;

EID: 71649093218     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2009.06.073     Document Type: Article

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