Yi-chong Xu

The Politics of Nuclear Energy in China

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores the history and challenges of nuclear energy development in China, across five main areas: politics, economics, environment, technology transfer and the nuclear fuel cycle. It emphasizes the political challenges in developing a set of long-term national strategies to ensure speedy, safe and secure nuclear energy development.

Produktdetails

• Energy, Climate and the Environment
• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-31034-0
• 1st ed. 2010
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9781349310340
• ISBN-10: 1349310344
• Artikelnr.: 45069411

Autorenporträt

XU YI-CHONG is Research Professor in the Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University, Australia. Xu has previously written on energy security and international organizations and her work includes Powering China (2002), Electricity Reform in China, India and Russia (2004), The Governance of World Trade (2004) and Inside the World Bank (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction From Bomb to Power Expanding the Nuclear Energy Program Who Decides? The Politics of Nuclear Energy Who Pays? The Economics of Nuclear Energy Technology Adoption or Technology Innovation Fuelling the Future: the Nuclear Fuel Cycle Who Cares? The Public and the Environment Is Nuclear the Future?