Nuclear Energy in Western Europe: Revival or Rejection? An Introduction

Autor(en)

Wolfgang Claudius Müller, Paul W. Thurner

Abstrakt

The chapter introduces the main research questions of the present volume: Why do nations make different decisions on nuclear energy and why some of the decisions are upheld but others reversed. To illustrate the relevance of the research question, the chapter outlines the history of nuclear energy that has gone through ups and downs and displays great inter-country variation. It gives particular attention to the two most recent periods of ‘nuclear revival’ (beginning in the late 1990s/early 2000s) and then the post-Fukushima bifurcation of national nuclear energy policies in which many countries stick to their path whereas others make reversals. The chapter identifies the international drivers of nuclear energy policy – factors that influence all countries to varying degrees depending very much on context constellations. The chapter concludes with a plan of the book.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Staatswissenschaft

Externe Organisation(en)

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Seiten

1-20

Anzahl der Seiten

21

Publikationsdatum

2017

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

506001 Allgemeine Staatslehre, 506004 Europäische Integration

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Energy(all), Social Sciences(all)

Sustainable Development Goals

SDG 7 – Bezahlbare und saubere Energie

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