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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780670903321

Autore

Bratt Duane <1967->

Titolo

The politics of CANDU exports / / Duane Bratt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2006

©2006

ISBN

1-281-99198-8

9786611991982

1-4426-8207-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Collana

Series in Public Management and Governance

Disciplina

382/.456214830971

Soggetti

CANDU reactors

Nuclear industry - Political aspects - Canada

Electronic books.

Canada Foreign economic relations

Canada Foreign relations 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"IPAC IAPC."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- List of acronyms -- Introduction -- Justifying CANDU exports -- Constraints of CANDU exports -- The need to establish markets, 1945-1974 -- Strengthening safeguards, 1974-1976 -- Suffering the consequences, 1977-1989 -- Nuclear renaissance, 1990-1996 -- New challenges and new opportunities, 1975-2005 -- Eexplaining CANDU exports -- Appendix: Basics of nuclear energy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book provides the most comprehensive history of the export of CANDU reactors to date. A pressurized heavy water natural-uranium power reactor designed and marketed by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, the CANDU reactor has played a significant part in Canada's international trade. In this history, Duane Bratt examines every CANDU sale, as well as some important unsuccessful sales attempts, from 1956 to the present. He also outlines the impact that changes in the international political climate, such as the creation and strengthening of the international nuclear non-proliferation regime and the increasing



importance of human rights and environmental protection, have had on CANDU exports over the last fifty years."--Jacket.