Future generations and nuclear power—A pluralistic economic appraisal

摘要: Abstract Nuclear power is a growth industry despite the unresolved problem of waste management. This paper considers case Turkey which has fast growing economy, and where government given permission to Russian company build large plant in Mersin, Southern Turkey. projects have unique features such as expensive set-up costs, long decommissioning processes (much longer than construction periods) issue safe disposal quantities highly radioactive wastes, some will remain active for many thousands years, that may create environmental problems especially future generations. The main focus this on role discounting economic appraisal nuclear elsewhere. Here we use three methods Turkish plant; standard discounting, UK government’s method declining discount rate intergenerational method. first two tend yield somewhat favourable results under assumption no interruption supply due technical reasons or major accident. method, other hand, treats all generational cohorts involved equitably, does not criteria.