Objective An internationally agreed methodology will be made available, for evaluating environmental costs of all major electricity generating fuel cycles in Europe. An accounting system for external costs of all major electricity generating fuel cycles in Europe will be developed, and additional research requirements will be identified. The project successfully developed a 'bottom-up' methodology for the evaluation of the external costs of fuel costs and demonstrated its application to the coal and nuclear fuel cycles. However, the work identified the high degree of uncertainty existing in a number of areas and several gaps in the available data. Particular ideas identified for further work were the evaluation of the impacts of global warming, the impacts of air pollutants on health, the valuation of mortality and the impacts arising from nuclear accidents. The results also showed that, due to the regional nature of a number of the important impacts, it is necessary to extend the analysis to a geographical area up to 1000km from the source.Each important category of damage will be studied separately. The effects of incremental fuel cycle investment will be assessed to derive marginal external costs consistent with the requirements of energy models. Expert reviews will be undertaken for each stage of the impact pathway: technologies, burdens, impacts and valuation. New fuel cycles will initially be developed for a single reference environment. Real reference environments will be used to permit investigation of geographical variations in environmental external costs. Evaluative studies will be undertaken by a single group of economists to ensure consistency. The resulting accounting framework will be incorporated in a data base system. Fields of science social sciencessociologydemographymortalityengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringenergy and fuelsfossil energycoalengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringair pollution engineering Programme(s) FP3-JOULE 2 - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of non-nuclear energy, 1990-1994 Topic(s) 0102 - Development of new methods Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority Address 353,harwell OX11 0RA Didcot - oxfordshire United Kingdom See on map EU contribution € 0,00 Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all CENTRE D'ETUDES SUR L'EVALUATION DE LA PROTECTION DANS LE DOMAINE NUCLEAIRE France EU contribution € 0,00 Address Route du panorama 18 92263 Fontenay aux roses See on map COHERENCE S.P.R.L. Belgium EU contribution € 0,00 Address 2 a,cour du cramignon 2 a 1348 Louvain-la-neuve See on map Electricité de France (EDF) France EU contribution € 0,00 Address 26 rue d la baume 75008 Paris See on map METROECONOMICA LTD United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address 108,little newport street 12/13, 3rd floor WC2H 7JJ London See on map UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Hessbruehlstrasse, 49 a 70565 Stuttgart See on map
