Department of Finance, Banking and Insurance, Selcuk University, Konya, Turkey.
Institute of Social Sciences, Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University, Nevşehir, Turkey.
Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2022 Oct;29(46):70564-70572. doi: 10.1007/s11356-022-22951-8. Epub 2022 Sep 12.
While the general environmental quality level continues to decline in today's global economy, aggregate energy consumption levels are often linked to countries' economic growth and environmental performances, thereby overlooking the specific roles of individual energy types. Thus, this study focuses on examining nuclear energy consumption-growth nexus in 27 selected nuclear energy-consuming countries across the globe. The system GMM estimator was applied to available post-2008 global financial crisis data spanning from 2010 to 2020 while accounting for influential factor inputs (labor and capital) within the framework of the traditional growth model. The results posit that both capital and labor significantly induce economic growth levels among the countries, while nuclear energy consumption is not a significant driver of growth levels despite some evidence of its positive roles. Hence, more investments in nuclear energy production are recommended to trigger an overall consumption level that will not only yield significant desirable economic growth impacts among the countries but also enhance possible environmental benefits in contrast to the growing environmentally detrimental fossil energy consumption among the countries.
虽然在当今全球经济中，总体环境质量水平持续下降，但总能源消费水平通常与各国的经济增长和环境表现相关联，从而忽略了个别能源类型的具体作用。因此，本研究专注于研究全球 27 个核能消费国的核能消费-增长关系。本研究在传统增长模型框架内，利用系统 GMM 估计器对 2010 年至 2020 年全球金融危机后可获得的数据进行了分析，同时考虑了有影响力的投入因素（劳动力和资本）。结果表明，在这些国家中，资本和劳动力都显著促进了经济增长水平，而核能消费并不是增长水平的重要驱动因素，尽管有一些证据表明它具有积极作用。因此，建议增加对核能生产的投资，以引发整体消费水平的增长，这不仅将在这些国家产生显著的理想经济增长影响，而且与这些国家不断增长的对环境有害的化石能源消费相比，还将提高可能的环境效益。
