Health risks of energy systems.
Health risks from fossil, renewable and nuclear reference energy systems are estimated following a detailed impact pathway approach. Using a set of appropriate air quality models and exposure-effect functions derived from the recent epidemiological literature, a methodological framework for risk assessment has been established and consistently applied across the different energy systems, including the analysis of consequences from a major nuclear accident. A wide range of health impacts resulting from increased air pollution and ionizing radiation is quantified, and the transferability of results derived from specific power plants to a more general context is discussed.
Krewitt
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Institut für Energiewirtschaft und Rationelle Energieanwendung, Universität Stuttgart, Germany.
Hurley
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Trukenmüller
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Friedrich
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D000397:Air Pollution / Q000032:analysis; D000398:Air Pollution, Radioactive; D004560:Electricity; D004736:Energy-Generating Resources; D004781:Environmental Exposure; D005060:Europe; D005579:Fossil Fuels; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D009678:Nuclear Energy; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D011210:Power Plants; D011634:Public Health; D011839:Radiation, Ionizing; D018788:Radioactive Hazard Release; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014481:United States
D005579:Fossil Fuels