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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807181603321

Titolo

Canadian nuclear energy policy : changing ideas, institutions, and interests / / edited by G. Bruce Doern, Arslan Dorman, Robert W. Morrison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

1-4426-7226-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Disciplina

333.792/4/0971

Soggetti

Nuclear energy - Government policy - Canada

Nuclear energy - Government policy - Ontario

Livres numeriques.

e-books.

Electronic books.

Ontario

Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Drafts of the chapters, along with other papers, were presented at the CRUISE Conference on the Future of Nuclear Energy in Canada, held in Ottawa, Sept. 30-Oct. 1, 1999.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1 Precarious Opportunity: Canada's Changing Nuclear Energy Policies and Institutional Choices -- 2 Global Nuclear Markets in the Context of Climate Change and Sustainable Development -- 3 Nuclear Power and Deregulation in the United Kingdom -- 4 Transforming AECL into an Export Company: Institutional Challenges and Change -- 5 Nuclear Regulation in Transition: The Atomic Energy Control Board -- 6 Nuclear Fuel Waste Policy in Canada -- 7 Ontario's Role in Nuclear Energy -- 8 The Future of Nuclear Power in a Restructured Electricity Market -- 9 Power Switch: The Ontario Energy Board in the New Electricity Regime -- 10 Conclusions -- Contributors.

Sommario/riassunto

Focusing on the federal government, but with special attention given to



key changes in Ontario, the analytical core of this book identifies five key nuclear energy choices and challenges that face the federal government and other Canadian policy makers.