Sustainable Energy Transition: Role of Nuclear Power

The global energy landscape in the twenty-first century is undergoing a significant shift with regard to the availability and use of energy resources. The energy transition is a response to the problems that the world's energy landscape is facing, chief among them being climate change. Other issues include fast-increasing demand, dwindling fossil fuel sources, skyrocketing energy prices, and hazards related to supply security. Nuclear energy is a vital source of energy that contributes significantly to the global electrical mix, particularly in developed nations. Nuclear power has a number of benefits, one of which is that it produces fewer carbon emissions than fossil fuels. This paper investigates the potential of nuclear power in the energy transition, taking into account the technology's phase-out trend that some developed countries have experienced over the past few decades, as well as the increased attention it has recently received as a low-carbon energy solution to combat climate change. Along with this, it looks at the role that nuclear power has in the energy transition using multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA), which is based on the opinions of experts in both industrialized and developing nations.