Governing the Atom: The Politics of Risk

ISBN-13: 9781138524521 / Angielski / Twarda / 2024 / 312 str.

John Byrne;Steve Hoffman

Opis

Promoted as a form of limitless, low-cost energy without the polluting effects of its fossil fuel counterparts, nuclear power has enjoyed unparalleled support in several countries. Despite the development of an extensive set of policy and institutional mechanisms to foster its use, nuclear technology has been troubled by a wide range of problems and continues to pose risks many believe are far greater than society should accept.

Spis treści

Introduction, Part I: The Social Structure of Nuclear Power 1 The Ideology of Progress and the Globalization of Nuclear Power 2 Nuclear Policy as Projection: How Policy Choices Can Create Their Own Justification 3 Science, Society and the State: The Nuclear Project and the Transformation of the American Political Economy Part II: The Social Consequences 4 No One Ever Told Us: Native Americans and the Great Uranium Experiment 5 Safety, Accidents, and Public Acceptance 6 Waste Disposal and Decommissioning Part III: The Globalization of Nuclear Power 7 Nuclear Power and Postindustrial Politics in the West 8 Nuclear Politics in Soviet and Post-Soviet Europe, 9 The Asian Atom: Hard-Path Nuclearization in East Asia

O autorze

John Byrne is director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy and professor o f energy and environmental policy at the University of Delaware.