Reevaluating Nuclear Energy's Challenges and Potentials in Addressing Global Warming Amid Ambiguous Scenarios Shaped by Prior Concerns and Apprehensions

Mustafa Faisal Ghlaim (), Asmaa Miran Hussein (), Mustafa Fakhir Hussein () and Haneen Hayder Jasim ()

Journal of Environmental and Geographical Studies, 2025, vol. 4, issue 1, 19 - 35

Abstract: Given the rise in temperatures to more than 1.5C as a result of reliance on fossil energy sources, the world has begun to realize the seriousness of the situation on aspects of life that humans will witness at the end of the twenty-first century if measures are not taken to reduce the rise in temperatures. Hence, in this work, we studied the significance of nuclear energy and analyzed the strengths, weaknesses, and discrepancies (SWOT) with stress on analyzing 47 studies that discuss different aspects. In this work, we focused on the critical of nuclear energy and its sustainable role in diminishing the phenomenon of global warming by investigating nuclear energy scenarios, as it is clear that nuclear energy has distinguished potential in bridging the energy gap that will occur due to the depletion of fossil fuel sources in the next four decades, and that concentrating on sustainable sources such as nuclear energy, which is characterized by an elevated production capacity, can be the vital source that covers different aspects. In addition, the downside of this study spotlighted is the concerns of nuclear energy waste, which is counterproductive and considered by a group of decision-makers and researchers to be a hopeless case, in addition to the historical risks caused by such as Fukushima and Chornobyl, which still have numerous people reconsidering the reliance on nuclear energy as a result of these historical perils.

Keywords: Nuclear energy; historical risks; waste; global warming; carbon dioxide; SWOT; fossil fuels (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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