Debate about the nuclear power project at Jaitapur is ongoing on various levels. Environmental effects and geographical issues have been raised by anti-nuclear activists. Geologists are of the view that Jaitapur is a seismic time bomb and also raised various issues regarding the safety of the...

In a series of messages to states and peoples, the former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon outlined the challenges and serious problems that the 21st century offers to the international communities, scholars, researchers, policymakers and laypeople all around the world. Such...

Although plutonium has been studied by different disciplines (such as technology and innovation studies, political sciences) since its discovery, back in 1940 at the University of California (Berkeley), the resource and environmental economic literature is still relatively scarce; neither does the...

The essential thesis of this article is that, as corporate and project finance trends continue in nuclear power plant financing, resulting in diversified and much broader and more complex structures of foreign investment, international investment law will become increasingly relevant to and...

As the only clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient basic load energy, nuclear energy has been increasingly developed in major nuclear power nations around world. At the same time, nuclear energy also plays a positive role in responding to global climate change. After the Fukushima nuclear...

Nuclear is considered as a valuable option for the decarbonization of the power generation, as it is a no-carbon, yet commercially consolidated technology. However, its real prospects are uncertain: if some countries, especially in the non-OECD area, have been extensively investing in nuclear,...