Lawrence , A . , Sovacool , B . , Stirling , A . 2016 . Nuclear energy and path dependence in Europe ' s ' Energy union ' Coherence or continued divergence ? Climate Policy , 165 , 622641 , Version of Record published online 1 July 2016 . It is with great regret that we , the authors , have withdrawn this article from publication in Climate Policy . The grounds for this are that it has come to our attention that two serious errors were committed by the first author AL on this paper . The second BS and third AS authors entirely failed to identify and correct these errors prior to publication . Of course , all three authors share joint responsibility for this paper , and apologize to readers of Climate Policy for our omission of oversight . Together , the errors have the effect of invalidating this particular analysis concerning the relative performance of nuclearcommitted European countries in wider climate change . As per guidance from the Committee on Publication Ethics COPE , we detail here the roles of the different authors of this paper . AL , a midcareer academic political scientist , conducted the quantitative analysis . AL initially contacted BS and asked him to help frame the paper as a whole . BS later invited AS to contribute a focus on the specific issue of technological lockin . The first error in the paper was a mistake by AL in the transcription of data from source material . This detracted from , but did not invalidate , the paper ' s published conclusions . On being informed of this error by a commentary from a reader , BS confirmed this , double checked other aspects of the analysis , and promptly sent a Corrigendum to Climate Policy editors on 05 October 2016 . In these exchanges , BS and AS developed concerns over the validity of AL ' s initial analysis . So , at the first opportunity when returning from travel , AS reproduced the analysis in its entirety on 20 October 2016 . This full reanalysis confirmed that a second error had been committed by AL . This mistake had also been identified in a blog , but had remained unnoticed by BS and AS until that point . This error involved the mistaken calculation of percentage emissions reductions with respect to an earlier date in the time series , rather than the stated baseline . Together with the first error , this had the combined effect of invalidating key findings of this paper , concerning the relative performance of nuclearcommitted European countries . With this diagnosis of a second more serious error thereby confirmed , BS and AS referred themselves that same day 20 October 2016 to an internal process at the University of Sussex , to investigate the circumstances of these two errors . All three authors informed the Editors of Climate Policy on the following day , 21 October 2016 . The Editors responded on 24 October 2016 , and invited us to submit a formal statement , which we did within 24 hours . We stand ready to cooperate fully in any onward process that might be necessary to clarify the circumstances of these errors or mitigate their effects . We can only conclude by apologizing very sincerely once again for the failures on our own parts , that have led to this very unfortunate situation . We note the Editors and Publishers , Taylor Francis and Climate Strategies , of Climate Policy published the article in good faith , based on warranties we made regarding originality and provenance . The article will remain online , digitally watermarked as retracted . November 2016