The history of greenhouse gas emissions and relation with the nuclear energy policy for Turkey

• Published in: International journal of ambient energy Vol. 42; no. 12; pp. 1447 - 1455
• Main Authors: Ağbulut, Ümit, Ceylan, İlhan, Gürel, Ali Etem, Ergün, Alper
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 10-09-2021
• Subjects: energy policy; Greenhouse gas emissions; nuclear power
• ISSN: 0143-0750; 2162-8246
• DOI: 10.1080/01430750.2018.1563818

The globalising world, rapidly developing technology and growing population have brought many problems and led to disrupting the world ecological balance. Today, existing energy sources reached such a level that cannot meet the current needs of the world. Due to the fact that fossil fuels will run out in near future, it has made mankind tending to seek alternative energy sources. The main issues addressed in this paper are the history of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGe) and relations with nuclear energy policy, particularly in Turkey. Currently, nuclear has much less GHGe and high energy-efficiency, and also meets 10.6% of the world primary electiricty energy demand. Therefore, countries seriously began to evaluate nuclear energy instead of fossil-fuels. In line with this, Turkey started to build third nuclear plants and aims to meet at least 15% of its primary electiricity energy demand. Hereby, Turkey is not only reducing dependence on fossil-fuels but also planning to reach the undertaken GHGe level as a country of signed the Kyoto protocol.