The monetary valuation of the health and environmental impacts of the nuclear fuel cycle / Die finanzielle Bewertung der mit dem nuklearen Brennstoffkreislauf verbundenen Folgen für Gesundheit und Umwelt

Abstract

From 1991 to 1995, the ExternE project, part of the European Commission's (DG XII) 'Joule Programme', began the process of better integrating the health and environmental external costs of electricity generation, that were not traditionally included in the energy policy making process. During the first phase, the methodologies were developed to tackle the difficult task of evaluating and monetizing the impacts of the different energy systems. This was followed by national implementation projects to complete the assessment of all relevant fuel cycles analyses in the European Union member states. In this paper, the methodology and the results of the studies of the nuclear fuel cycle, developed by the French Centre d'etude sur l'Evaluation de la Protection dans le domaine Nucleaire (CEPN), are presented.