Nuclear waste storage and environmental intergenerational externalities

Mouez Fodha

International Journal of Sustainable Development, 2015, vol. 18, issue 1/2, 94-114

Abstract: This article analyses the long-term consequences of nuclear waste storage within a general equilibrium framework. The objective is to determine the conditions for which the storage of waste, and thus the transfer of externalities towards the future, can be optimal. These conditions could explain the implementation of intergenerational externalities, justifying an intertemporal Not in My Back Yard behaviour. We first show that the choice of the policy instruments determines the feasibility of the storage policy. Indeed, economic stability imposes precise levels of the rate of storage or of the tax rate, making it possible to avoid chaotic economic dynamics. Under these specific conditions, and depending on the period at which an accident may occur and on the value of the social discount rate, we show that storing all the nuclear waste may be optimal.

Keywords: overlapping generations model; nuclear waste; environmental externalities; waste storage; nuclear energy; nuclear power; NIMBY; policy instruments; storage policy. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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