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Nuclear Energy Safety and International Cooperation: Closing the World's Most Dangerous Reactors
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Nuclear Energy Safety and International Cooperation: Closing the World's Most Dangerous Reactors
Current price: $170.00
Barnes and Noble
Nuclear Energy Safety and International Cooperation: Closing the World's Most Dangerous Reactors
Current price: $170.00
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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.