Abstract:

Energy is among the most important resources of development and prosperity. For this reason, the countries of the world are developing policies and measures to ensure the sustainability of energy resources. In this context, investments in nuclear power plants have been realized in many countries of the world to meet the rising energy demand since 1970's. Recently, nuclear power plants have begun to lose importance in developed countries due to the accidents that have occurred since the 1980s. In this study, emphasizing the existing energy resources production and consumption, the use of nuclear energy resources necessity seen as an alternative to the foreign dependency are discussed. The basic assumption of the study is in case of savings made and tendency to use alternative energies, there will be no need for nuclear energy resources. Taking into consideration the results of the investigations made on the quantity of surplus energy derived upon efficient use of energy resources in Turkey; the capacity of the yield value to compensate the national energy consumption demand is discussed if similar energy politics in Turkey are followed which the developed countries recently pursue. In this context, upon evaluating the benefits of nuclear energy resources and its risks, energy savings and efficient use of energy, energy production by renewable sources, politics are established for loss and leakages in energy to be reduced to OECD level and energy data of Turkey are scrutinized. Evaluations resulted that Turkey’s energy politics should be based on efficient use of existing and renewable energy resources, making use of alternative energy resources and monitoring energy savings rather than installing nuclear power plants.

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