A Comparative Study of Power Mixes for Green Growth: How South Korea and Japan See Nuclear Energy Differently
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Theoretical Framework and Conceptual Overview
2.1. Mill’s Canon and Nuclear
2.2. Who Are the Architects of Energy Policy in South Korea and Japan?
2.3. The Green Economy, Green Growth, and the Green New Deal
3. South Korea vs. Japan at a Glance
3.1. South Korea
3.2. Japan
4. Green Growth and the De-Carbonization of Electricity
4.1. South Korea’s Power Mix Outlook under Its Green New Deal
4.2. Japan’s Power Mix Outlook under Its Green Growth Strategy
5. Comparison between South Korea and Japan
5.1. Similarities
5.2. Divergence in Nuclear Energy
6. Discussion
7. Conclusions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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GDP | Total GHG Emission | GHG Emission per Capita | Energy Efficiency | Original NDC | Updated NDC | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
South Korea | USD 1.647 trillion in 2019 | 727.6 MtCO2eq in 2018 | 12.7 tons in 2019 | 2.3 | 37% from the business-as-usual (BAU) level by 2030 | 26.0% by 2030 compared to 2013 level (25.4% reduction compared to 2005) |
Japan | USD 5.082 trillion in 2019 | 1212 MtCO2eq in 2019 | 9.09 tons in 2019 | 1.0 | 24.4% by 2030, from the 2017 level (▼709.1 MtCO2eq) | 26% by 2030 compared to 2013 (25.4% reduction compared to 2005) |
Seen as Green? | Seen as Risk? | Key Players | Decide How? | Future Prospect | |
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South Korea | Not necessarily | Yes | Civil activist groups and “post-nuclear epistemic community (under the Moon administration)” | Top-down | Planned to be reduced but cannot be guaranteed because of the political system |
Japan | Yes | Not necessarily | Related businesses, Keidanren, and METI | Incrementalism and “Circles of Compensation” | Likely to increase |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleLim, Eunjung. 2021. "A Comparative Study of Power Mixes for Green Growth: How South Korea and Japan See Nuclear Energy Differently" Energies 14, no. 18: 5681. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14185681