Toward environmental sustainability: What role does Russian nuclear technology play?

IF 1.9 3区工程技术 Q1 NUCLEAR SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Annals of Nuclear Energy Pub Date : 2025-03-17 DOI:10.1016/j.anucene.2025.111368

Shujaat Abbas

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Abstract

Nuclear energy technology has enormous untapped potential to generate stable and clean energy required to achieve net-zero carbon emissions. This study explores the impact of Russian nuclear technology exports on environmental sustainability in 21 major nuclear power-consuming countries from 2002 to 2021. This objective is realized by using panel inverse quantile and instrumental variable quantile with smoothed generalized methods of moments technique. The estimated result reveals that Russian nuclear technology exports have a significant negative impact on GHG emissions in all quantiles. Similarly, environmental policy stringency has also emerged as an important policy instrument to enhance environmental sustainability in lower quantiles (Qtile-10 to Qtile-50), while insignificant impact is observed in higher quantiles. Furthermore, rapid urbanization has emerged as a major contributor to GHG emissions and environmental degradation, while the increase in economic globalization is instrumental in enhancing environmental sustainability only at higher quantiles.

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Annals of Nuclear Energy 工程技术-核科学技术

CiteScore

4.30

自引率

21.10%

发文量

632

审稿时长

7.3 months

期刊介绍： Annals of Nuclear Energy provides an international medium for the communication of original research, ideas and developments in all areas of the field of nuclear energy science and technology. Its scope embraces nuclear fuel reserves, fuel cycles and cost, materials, processing, system and component technology (fission only), design and optimization, direct conversion of nuclear energy sources, environmental control, reactor physics, heat transfer and fluid dynamics, structural analysis, fuel management, future developments, nuclear fuel and safety, nuclear aerosol, neutron physics, computer technology (both software and hardware), risk assessment, radioactive waste disposal and reactor thermal hydraulics. Papers submitted to Annals need to demonstrate a clear link to nuclear power generation/nuclear engineering. Papers which deal with pure nuclear physics, pure health physics, imaging, or attenuation and shielding properties of concretes and various geological materials are not within the scope of the journal. Also, papers that deal with policy or economics are not within the scope of the journal.