The risks and impacts of nuclear decommissioning: Stakeholder reflections on the UK nuclear industry

Rika Hirose and Darren McCauley

Energy Policy, 2022, vol. 164, issue C

Abstract: Nuclear decommissioning faces significant challenges on technical, financial, social and political grounds, requiring adequate technologies, sound funding, and solutions for management of generated waste, as well as a large and competent workforce. By examining the narratives of decommissioning gathered from experienced individuals, organisations and community leaders involved in the formal process at two different sites in the UK, this paper seeks to elucidate the multiple risks and impacts we are facing on the issues surrounding nuclear decommissioning. It calls for legislation based on clearer definition and transparency, to achieve a framework which is socially, economically, technically and morally defensible.

Keywords: Nuclear decommissioning; Radioactive waste management; Nuclear power; Energy justice; Intergenerational equity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2022.112862

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