Fuzzy MCDM framework for locating a nuclear power plant in Turkey

İsmail Erol, Safiye Sencer, Aslı Özmen and Cory Searcy

Energy Policy, 2014, vol. 67, issue C, 186-197

Abstract: Turkey has recently initiated a project to revise its nuclear policy. The revised nuclear energy policy considers searching for possible alternative locations for future nuclear power plants in Turkey. At the most basic level, the public cannot accurately evaluate whether it is willing to support nuclear energy unless it has an idea about where the power plants are likely to be located. It is argued that the selection of a facility location is a multi-criteria decision-making problem including both quantitative and qualitative criteria. In this research, given the multi-criteria nature of the nuclear facility location selection problem, a new decision tool is proposed to rank the alternative nuclear power plant sites in Turkey. The proposed tool is based on fuzzy Entropy and t norm based fuzzy compromise programming to deal with the vagueness of human judgments. Finally, a discussion and some concluding remarks are provided.

Keywords: Nuclear power plant site selection; Multi-criteria methods; Fuzzy logic (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1016/j.enpol.2013.11.056

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