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Double or quits? : the future of civil nuclear energy / Malcolm C. Grimston and Peter Beck.
- 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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- Description
- xii, 237 p.; 21 cm.
- Subject
- 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