Nuclear Energy Development in Asia: Problems and Prospects (Energy, Climate and the Environment) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0230240240 ISBN 13: 9780230240247

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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An exploration of how and why Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China and India have initiated and developed nuclear energy programs and what challenges they face today. Were the nuclear programmes driven by the low energy endowment, a desire to pursue international prestige, national security concerns, environmental pollution or economic development?

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JEFF GRAHAM, Lecturer at the Department of International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith University, Australia. STUART HARRIS, Emeritus Professor, Department of International Relations, School of International, Political & Strategic Studies, Australian National University. PER HÖGSELIUS, Division of History of Sciences and Technology, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. TOSHIHIKO NAKATA, Professor, Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University Aoba-Yama Sendai, Japan. LAVINA LEE, Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Relations, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia. MIN LEE, Professor, Department of Engineering and System Science, College of Nuclear Science, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan. SANG DONGLI, Associate Professor, School of Law, Zhengzhou University, China. MAENG-HO YANG, Korean Atomic Energy Research Institute (KAERI), South Korea. XU YI-CHONG, Research Professor of Politics and Public Policy at Griffith University, Australia.

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• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0230240240
• ISBN 13: 9780230240247
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 265
• Herausgeber: Yi-chong X.
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