Research Catalog

Title

Double or quits? : the future of civil nuclear energy / Malcolm C. Grimston and Peter Beck.

Author

Grimston, Malcolm C.

Publication

London : Royal Institute of International Affairs : Earthscan ; Washington D.C. : distributed in North America by the Brookings Institution, 2002.

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Additional Authors

• Beck, Peter (Peter W.)
• Beck, Peter.
• Sustainable Development Programme (Royal Institute of International Affairs)

Description

xii, 237 p.; 21 cm.

Subject

• Nuclear energy
• Nuclear energy > Economic aspects
• Nuclear energy > Safety measures
• Nuclear energy > Environmental aspects
• Nuclear industry
• Nuclear Energy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The energy challenge -- Timescales -- Different futures -- Incentives and barriers to nuclear development -- Public perceptions and decision-making in civil nuclear energy -- Public opinion -- A brief history of early nuclear perceptions -- Attitudes and feelings -- Factors affecting our perceptions of risk -- New approaches to decision-making -- Innovative techniques to increase participation in decision-making -- Using participative techniques in policy formulation -- The relative economics of nuclear power -- The costs of generating electricity -- The effects of market liberalization -- The role of government in a liberalized market -- Nuclear power in developing countries -- Future nuclear options -- The effects of market instruments on combating climate change -- Security and diversity of energy supplies -- Radioactive waste management, reprocessing and proliferation -- Sources and types of radioactive waste -- Reprocessing -- Major spent fuel management options -- Partition and transmutation -- Nuclear weapons proliferation -- Sidestepping the problem? The thorium cycle -- Nuclear safety -- Particular issues in nuclear safety -- Principles of reactor safety -- Major reactor accidents -- Measures taken since Chernobyl -- The current situation -- The future safety of nuclear plants -- Nuclear energy research, development and commercialization -- The context of research expenditure -- Energy research, development and commercialization -- Nuclear R & D in the context of total energy R & D -- Main areas of nuclear R, D & C.

ISBN

• 1853839132
• 1853839086 (CASED) :

OCLC

49784602

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library