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Is nuclear energy a better alternative for mitigating CO2 emissions in BRICS countries? An empirical analysis  

Hassan, Syed Tauseef (School of Management and Economics, Beijing Institute of Technology)
Danish, Danish (School of Economics and Trade, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies)
khan, Salah-Ud-Din (Sustainable Energy Technologies (SET) Center, College of Engineering, King Saud University)
Baloch, Muhammad Awais (School of Economics and Management, Baoji University of Arts and Sciences)
Tarar, Zahid Hassan (Soil and Water Testing Laboratory Mandi Bahauddin)
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Nuclear Engineering and Technology / v.52, no.12, 2020 , pp. 2969-2974 More about this Journal
Abstract
Looking at the recent studies, nuclear energy and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions nexus shows inconclusive result. To further explain nuclear energy-pollution nexuses this study is an attempt to analyze the impact of nuclear energy on pollution reduction for BRICS countries covering data for the period from 1993 to 2017. This study conducts advanced panel techniques such as Continuously-Updated Fully-Modified (CUP-FM) and Continuously-Updated Bias-Corrected (CUP-BC) for long run estimation. Our results support the notion that nuclear energy reduce CO2 emissions. Also, renewable energy corrects environmental pollution in BRICS countries. The magnitude of the coefficient of nuclear energy is less as compared to renewable energy, implying that nuclear is less effective in reducing environmental pollution. The findings offer significant policy understandings and suggestions not only for BRICS economies but for developing countries as well in designing suitable nuclear energy-growth-carbon policies.
Keywords
Nuclear energy; $CO_2$ emission; BRICS; LM-Bootstrap integration; CUP-FM & CUP-BC;
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