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来源类型	Article
规范类型	其他
DOI	10.1016/j.energy.2015.07.043
ISBN	0360-5442
	Profiling technological failure and disaster in the energy sector: a comparative analysis of historical energy accidents.
	Sovacool, Benjamin K; Kryman, Matthew; Laine, Emily
发表日期	2015-10
出处	Energy
出版者	Elsevier
出版年	2015
页码	2016-2027
语种	英语
摘要	This study assesses the risk of energy accidents using an original historical dataset over the period 1874-2014, and it evaluates that risk across 11 energy systems: biofuels, biomass, coal, geothermal, hydroelectricity, hydrogen, natural gas, nuclear power, oil, solar energy, and wind energy. Our study shows how these energy systems collectively involved almost 1,100 accidents resulting in more than 210,000 human fatalities and almost $350 billion in property damages. Across the entire sample, the mean amount of property damage was $319 million and 196 fatalities per accident, though when reflected as a median the numbers substantially improve to $3 million in damages per accident and 0 fatalities. We found that wind energy is the most frequent to incur an accident within our sample, accounting for almost one third of accidents. Accidents at hydroelectric dams were the most fatal, accounting for 85 percent of fatalities. Nuclear power accidents are by far the most expensive, accounting for 70 percent of damages. We then utilize this data to test six hypotheses, drawn from the energy studies literature, related to energy systems, energy policy and regulation, and technological learning.
URL	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/58434/
来源智库	Science Policy Research Unit (United Kingdom)
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条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/468584
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Sovacool, Benjamin K,Kryman, Matthew,Laine, Emily. Profiling technological failure and disaster in the energy sector: a comparative analysis of historical energy accidents.. 2015.