Nuclear Energy Safety and International Cooperation: Closing the World's Most Dangerous Reactors

ISBN-13: 9781138018501 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 152 str.

III Spencer Barrett Meredith

Opis

Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl explosion, disaster struck once more after a tsunami overwhelmed the considerable safety measures at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. However, Fukushima had put 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, but instead delayed for almost two decades.

Spis treści

1. 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

O autorze

Spencer Barrett Meredith, III has worked in the field of international relations as a professor and practitioner for more than a decade, teaching at the undergraduate and graduate levels, as well as serving as a Fulbright Scholar in the Caucasus and a guest lecturer for the US Department of State in South and East Asia. He is currently an Associate Professor at the College of International Security Affairs in the US National Defense University.