Format:
1 online resource (313 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415688703
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9780203115268
Series Statement:
Routledge Global Security Studies
Content:
This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics driving, and constraining, nuclear power development in Asia, Europe, and North America, providing detailed comparative analysis
Note:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms and abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Why nuclear power? -- Contribution to nuclear scholarship -- Methods and key concepts -- Case selection -- Introducing a theory of nuclear socio-political economy -- National security and secrecy -- Technocratic ideology -- Economic interventionalism -- Centrally coordinated energy stakeholder network -- Subordination of opposition to political authority -- Social peripheralization -- Up ahead -- 2 An introduction to nuclear power technology -- Industry overview -- Nuclear reactor types -- Nuclear reactor generations -- The basics of the nuclear lifecycle -- Uranium mining and milling -- Plant construction and operation -- Interim and permanent waste storage -- Used fuel reprocessing and disposal -- Decommissioning -- Nuclear technology and the socio-political economy -- Nuclear technology and the political realm -- Nuclear technology and the economics of electricity generation -- Nuclear technology and society -- 3 United States -- Background -- National security and secrecy -- Technocratic ideology -- Economic interventionism -- Centrally coordinated energy stakeholder network -- Subordination of opposition to political authority -- Social peripheralization -- Looking to the future -- 4 France -- Background -- National security and secrecy -- Technocratic ideology -- Economic interventionism -- Centrally coordinated energy stakeholder network -- Subordination of opposition to political authority -- Social peripheralization -- Looking to the future -- 5 Japan -- Background -- National security and secrecy -- Technocratic ideology -- Economic interventionism -- Centrally coordinated energy stakeholder network -- Subordination of opposition to political authority -- Social peripheralization
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Insight 6: the impact of the Fukushima disaster on long-term development is unclear -- Insight 7: deterministic accounts do not fully explain nuclear development -- Insight 8: nuclear power requires undemocratic conditions to thrive -- Need for further insight -- Appendix: Major accidents and incidents at nuclear power facilities from 1952 to 2011 -- Notes -- Index
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Looking to the future -- 6 Russia and the former Soviet Union -- Background -- National security and secrecy -- Technocratic ideology -- Economic interventionism -- Centrally coordinated energy stakeholder network -- Subordination of opposition to political authority -- Social peripheralization -- Looking to the future -- 7 South Korea -- Background -- National security and secrecy -- Technocratic ideology -- Economic interventionism -- Centrally coordinated energy stakeholder network -- Subordination of opposition to political authority -- Social peripheralization -- Looking to the future -- 8 Canada -- Background -- National security and secrecy -- Technocratic ideology -- Economic interventionism -- Centrally coordinated energy stakeholder network -- Subordination of opposition to political authority -- Social peripheralization -- Looking to the future -- 9 China -- Background -- National security and secrecy -- Technocratic ideology -- Economic interventionism -- Centrally coordinated energy stakeholder network -- Subordination of opposition to political authority -- Social peripheralization -- Looking to the future -- 10 India -- Background -- National security and secrecy -- Technocratic ideology -- Economic interventionism -- Centrally coordinated energy stakeholder network -- Subordination of opposition to political authority -- Social peripheralization -- Looking to the future -- 11 Conclusion -- Insight 1: the commonalities of nuclear power development appear universal -- Insight 2: the socio-political economy of nuclear power is a complex adaptive system -- Insight 3: the six drivers must exist simultaneously to induce uninterrupted development -- Insight 4: national security plays a central role in nuclear power development -- Insight 5: climate change enhances nuclear power development prospects
Additional Edition:
Print version Sovacool, Benjamin K. The National Politics of Nuclear Power Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2012 ISBN 9780415688703
Language:
English
Keywords:
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