Energy market impacts of nuclear power phase-out policies

Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1511-1527

  Glomsrød, Solveig ^a   Wei, Taoyuan ^a   Mideksa, Torben ^a   Samset, Bjørn H ^a  

^a CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH OSLO CICERO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Carbon emissions; Electricity market; Fukushima disaster; General equilibrium; Nuclear power

Indexed keywords

CARBON EMISSION; ELECTRICITY SUPPLY; ENERGY POLICY; NUCLEAR ACCIDENT; NUCLEAR POWER; SAFETY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

FUKUSHIMA [TOHOKU]; GERMANY; HONSHU; JAPAN; NORTH AMERICA; SWITZERLAND; TOHOKU;

EID: 84945457204     PISSN: 13812386     EISSN: 15731596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11027-014-9558-3     Document Type: Article

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