Study of Energy Types: Fossil, Nuclear and Renewable Energies and their Evaluation in Terms of Environmental Pollution and Economically

Sara Abdollahi,Vijay P Singh,Saeid Eslamian,Meysam Madadi,Soleyman Ghorbanzadeh,Kaveh Ostad-Ali-Askari

doi:10.3844/ajeassp.2019.342.351

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Abstract

Unwise and increasing exploitation of various energy carriers, including oil, gas and coal, has made countries to focus on two major issues, namely running out fossil fuels, as well as environmental pollution. Hence, one of the main priorities of energy policy is to diversification of energy sources, as well as finding a safe, cheap and nonpolluting energy source (devoid of greenhouse gases). Therefore, nuclear energy is important. In this regard, the main purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of energy consumption on the quality of the environment and the introduction of the best economically efficient option for energy production. In this research, we conducted a literature search incorporating keywords of nuclear energy, nuclear fission, fossil fuel, greenhouse effect in Persian and English databases in a structured manner and retrieved the papers and articles dealt with benefits and disadvantages of nuclear energy as well as its environmental impacts and subsequently they analyzed in a descriptive manner. In this study, while studying nuclear energy, fossil fuels and renewable energy, we tried to introduce a suitable replacement of these energies to fossil fuels, taking into account the economic and environmental perspectives resulting from it. Among all types of energy sources, nuclear energy may have the least impact on the environment, including water, soil and air and is a source free from gases. In addition to all of these, this energy is considered as a safe economic option.

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The increasing and increasing use of various energy carriers, such as oil, gas and coal, has attracted the attention of countries to two major problems, namely the end of fossil fuels, as well as environmental pollution
Due to limited resources and unsustainable fossil fuels and the emissions they produce in terms of air pollution, greenhouse gases and ash to produce this fuel remains a major share in energy production
The results show that with the passage of time the number of articles in the area of environmental effects caused by the consumption of energy, especially fossil fuels has increased

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The increasing and increasing use of various energy carriers, such as oil, gas and coal, has attracted the attention of countries to two major problems, namely the end of fossil fuels, as well as environmental pollution. With global warming and environmental pollution in recent decades, all countries in the world have reached a consensus to take action to reduce environmental pollution and global warming (Stern, 2007; Adamantiades and Kessides, 2009; DeCanio, 2009; Reddy and Assenza, 2009). The purpose of this descriptive-analytic study is to provide two definitions of fossil fuels, nuclear energy and renewable resources, two hypotheses by the authors and try to find an answer to these two hypotheses. We will provide some explanations about the mentioned energies and theoretical foundations, methodology, findings and the discussion will be discussed

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