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Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy Ser.: Nuclear Energy Safety and International Cooperation : Closing the World's Most Dangerous Reactors by III Meredith Spencer (2014, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherTaylor & Francis Group
ISBN-101138018503
ISBN-139781138018501
eBay Product ID (ePID)201650912
Product Key Features
Number of Pages164 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameNuclear Energy Safety and International Cooperation : Closing the World's Most Dangerous Reactors
Publication Year2014
SubjectPower Resources / Nuclear, Industries / General, Industrial Health & Safety, Ecology, Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Development / Sustainable Development
TypeTextbook
AuthorIII Meredith Spencer
Subject AreaNature, Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics
SeriesRoutledge Studies in Environmental Policy Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight12.9 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN2014-002180
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal363.1799526
Table Of Content1. Political rules and nuclear safety 2. Ukraine's uneasy past and uncertain future 3. Armenia at the crossroads 4. Lithuania reluctant but resolved to obey 5. Bulgaria, what a strange trip it has been 6. Overcoming Slovakia's Meciar problem 7. Delaying disaster
SynopsisTwenty-five years after the Chernobyl explosion, disaster struck once again after a tsunami overwhelmed the considerable safety measures at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. However, Fukushima had in place a solid containment structure to reduce the spread of radiation in the event of a worst-case scenario; Chernobyl did not. These two incidents highlight the importance of such safety measures, which were critically lacking in an entire class of Soviet-designed reactors. This book examines why five countries operating these dangerous reactors first signed international agreements to close them within a few years, then instead delayed for almost two decades. It looks at how political decision makers weighed the enormous short-term costs of closing those reactors against the long-term benefits of compliance, and how the political instability that dominated post-Communist transitions impacted their choices. The book questions the efficacy of Western governments' efforts to convince their Eastern counterparts of the dangers they faced, and establishes a causal relationship between political stability and compliance behavior. This model will also enable more effective assistance policies in similar situations of political change where decision makers face considerable short-term costs to gain greater future rewards. This book provides a valuable resource for postgraduate students, academics and policy makers in the fields of nuclear safety, international agreements, and democratization., The book is the first academic study to evaluate the effectiveness of Western governments' efforts in the 1990s to heighten international nuclear energy safety and to examine how, despite this, safety culture remained largely unchanged by the governments operating some of the most dangerous reactors in the world.
LC Classification NumberTK1362.F6M47 2014
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