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Energy as an indicator of modernization in Latin America, 1890-1925
(Wiley, 2010)
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In the absence of comparable macroeconomic indicators for most of the Latin American economies before
the 1930s, the apparent consumption of energy is used in this paper as a proxy of the degree of
modernization of Latin ...
Nuclear power for a dictatorship: state and business involvement in the Spanish atomic program 1950-1985
(SAGE, 2016)
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Spain was the first developing country to exploit a nuclear power plant commercially. By
the early 1970s Spain had become the major nuclear client of the USA, the world’s
largest reactor exporter. Despite its importance, ...
Energy and economic growth: the stylized facts
(IAEE, 2016)
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We summarize what we know about energy and economic growth in a set of
stylized facts. We combine analysis of a panel data set of 99 countries from 1971
to 2010 with analysis of some longer run historical data. Our key ...
Will small energy consumers be faster in transition? Evidence from the early shift from coal to oil in Latin America
(Elsevier, 2012)
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This paper provide evidence of the early transition from coal to oil for 20 Latin American
countries over the first half of the 20th century, which does not fit the transition experiences of large
energy consumers. These ...
Nuclear engineering and technology transfer: the Spanish strategies to deal with US, French and German nuclear manufacturers, 1955–1985
(Routledge, 2020)
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We analysed the process of construction and connection to the electrical grid of four Spanish nuclear power plants with different financial and technological foreign partners: those of Zorita (PWR by Westinghouse), Garoña ...
Freshwater for cooling needs: a long-run approach to the nuclear water footprint in Spain
(Elsevier, 2017)
Artículo / Artikulua,
From the invention of the steam engine to the present, water has represented a significant input to the energy system, although this has been mostly ignored in the literature. In Spain, the most arid country in Europe, ...
Las dimensiones sociales de la percepción de la energía nuclear. Un análisis del caso español (1960-2015)
(CSIC, 2017)
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La energía nuclear es una tecnología compleja, que requiere un uso muy intensivo de recursos y una toma de decisiones muy centralizada, cuya gobernanza supone un auténtico reto para las sociedades democráticas. En el ...
Learning by doing: the first Spanish nuclear power plant
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)
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In the nuclear sector, turnkey projects can be considered an investment in obtaining information through “learning by doing” to capture rents from the next generation of reactors. As the first U.S. turnkey export project, ...
The weak data on the water–energy nexus in Spain
(IWA Publishing, 2019)
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This paper focuses on the fact that the water–energy nexus remains an irrelevant issue on the energy policy agenda and on the priorities of the energy leaders in Spain. This is a striking fact given that this takes place ...
Electricidad nuclear y procesos de aprendizaje: el papel de Westinghouse y de General Electric en la experiencia española (c. 1955-1973)
(Universitat de Barcelona, Departament d'Història i Institucions Econòmiques, 2018)
info:eu-repo/semantics/article,
Este artículo explora los procesos de aprendizaje y de transferencia tecnológica que situaron
a España entre los firstcomers de la energía nuclear a finales de los años sesenta. Se trata
de un ejemplo de industria naciente ...