Nuclear Energy Safety and International Cooperation : Closing the World's Most Dangerous Reactors Paperback / softback
by III, Spencer (US National Defense University, USA) Meredith
Part of the Routledge Studies in Environmental Policy series
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Twenty-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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:164 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:30/11/2016
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- ISBN:9781138282360
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:164 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:30/11/2016
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- ISBN:9781138282360