Nuclear power is one of many options available to achieve reduced carbon dioxide emissions likely to be mandated by an (as yet) undefined national climate change policy. Investment costs in nuclear power are greater than in any other conventional generating technology. They are irreversible and...

In 2012 Japan experienced several nuclear policy changes, most notably the organization of deliberative polling (DP), and the adoption of an innovative energy and environmental strategy, which included the objective of phasing out nuclear power in the 2030s. How did these large-scale policy...

This book analyses the economic history of the nuclear program in Spain, from its inception in the 1950s to the nuclear moratorium in the early 1980s, and investigates the economic, financial and business origins of atomic energy in Spain. The actual dimension of the Spanish nuclear sector,...