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Published: 07 January 2016
... agreement Asian Development Bank ADB Myanmar–Bangladesh–India gas pipeline project Singh Jaswant Turkmenistan Afghanistan Pakistan India TAPI gas pipeline project India Bangladesh Myanmar gas pipeline project nuclear energy Shale gas ‘atoms for peace’ Bhabha Homi Canadian export credit insurance...
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Published: 25 May 2023
... of heritage within a generation. Dounreay Highlands and Islands Nuclear cultural heritage Nuclear energy Rural modernism UKAEA Writing in 1960, a Caithness commentator considered the Dounreay Experimental Research Establishment (DERE) ‘a prize which any tourist-minded county would jump at’. 1...
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Published: 13 October 2015
... that the externalities of nuclear power also need to be priced in: though a non-CO2-emitting primary energy source, it nonetheless gives rise to many other questions, as is shown by the French example. Beck Ulrich Hahn Otto nuclear energy nuclear fission Fukushima nuclear accident Japan Germany Japan Merkel...
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Published: 26 June 2018
... and docility Independence Liberty Occupy Wall Street Protest Total bureaucratization Contradictory state Fannigan Dale Authority submission to Psychopathology Standardization Corporate state reaction Panoptic state Burke County Georgia Taxation for-profit democracy nuclear energy nuclear power...
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Published: 11 November 2016
... in the early 1960s. As with colchicine tinkerers, these individuals were keen to explore the uses of new technologies for themselves and possibly to produce novel flowers and vegetables. Yet those wanting to experiment with nuclear energy were also dependent on professional scientists and the developing...
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Published: 10 January 2017
... sustainable consumption Environment Ministry history committee France Nature Environnement FNE environmental policy energy policy natural resources environmentalism nuclear energy social movements policy innovation policy change institutionalization state–society relationships...
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Published: 01 July 2013
... allergy non-nuclear energy sources The earthquake, tsunami, and resulting nuclear power plant meltdown beginning on March 11, 2011, not only destroyed Fukushima’s coastline and more than twenty thousand human lives, it altered the course of Japan’s energy policy. Throughout the postwar period, there has...
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Published: 30 September 2014
... use as a political technology have changed over time, they examine two cases. The first is the dismantling of Chilean nuclear energy policy in the 1970s, when the Chilean government’s instantiation of the neoliberal model devalued the expertise of Chilean nuclear engineers while giving greater power...
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Published: 15 August 2012
...This chapter investigates Sweden's technological dependence on the United States. It argues that Sweden has become more and more dependent on U.S. assistance both in nuclear energy and in military hardware, and this dependence has been used by the U.S. government to steer Swedish decision-makers...
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Published: 01 November 2018
... Council SNSC Velayati Ali Akbar Keiswetter Allen Ahgazadeh Gholamreza Amrollahi Reza Arak Heavy Water Reactor Khazaneh Reza Natanz nuclear facility AMAD plan Fakhrizadeh Mahabadi Mohsen Betts Richard K George Bush Bill Clinton Rafsanjani Khatami Dual Containment Sanctions Nuclear energy...
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Published: 01 November 2018
... Party and Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action JCPOA Durbin Dick partisan polarization impact of Pelosi Nancy public opinion USA unilateralism Obama Rouhani JCPOA Sanctions Engagement Nuclear energy Nuclear weapons In July 2015 the conflict between the United States and Iran over the latter’s...
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Published: 01 November 2018
... of EU3 Russia pragmatic conservatives Iran Rafsanjani Akbar Hashemi reformists Iran Rouhani Hassan Araghchi Abbas P5 1 Trump Donald European Union EU NSDM Obama Trump JCPOA Sanctions Nuclear energy Nuclear weapons The signing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in July 2015...
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Published online: 23 May 2019
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Published: 26 July 2018
...This chapter deals with three issues. First it examines those sectors of the economy that are wholly or partly excluded from EU competition law, namely nuclear energy, military equipment and agriculture; the special regime for coal and steel products under the former European Coal and Steel...
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Published: 27 April 2012
...This chapter focuses on addressing the problems faced by current climate policy and attempts to show how equitable it would be to increase commercial nuclear energy in an effort to help address climate change. This type of assessment, as is argued here, must not only focus on what is wrong...
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Published: 01 July 2015
... and anti-establishment a documentary is perceived, the greater the pressure exerted to censor, discredit, or minimise its impact. Drawing from this larger context, this chapter demonstrates how repeated tropes and patterns of public/private interest have been contested in the arena of nuclear energy policy...
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Published: 02 December 2011
... warming. Alternatives cannot simply replace oil; we need new forms of energy conversion and transformation. The chapter suggests a way to think about nuclear energy in non-thermal terms. Furthermore, using Gilles Deleuze's thought, it offers some reflections for a theological materialism based on energy...
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Published: 11 March 2009
... in a remote New Mexico desert. The world's first atomic bomb, our ultimate claim on the gift of Prometheus, had exploded. After World War II, scientists started planning peaceful uses for atomic energy. Once the war ended, newly tapped supplies of raw materials, fossil fuels, and nuclear energy combined...
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Published: 07 July 2015
...In the past few years, Brazil has renewed its interest in nuclear energy both for peaceful and military use. Possessing the sixth largest reserve of the world’s uranium and the key technologies for producing nuclear fuel, the Brazilian government resumed its nuclear program in 2003. While its third...
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Published: 31 January 2013
...The chapter focuses on the analysis of energy resource balance and the ecological limits on energy resources with special reference to the oil crisis in both the global and the Indian context. It discusses the roles of fossil fuels, nuclear energy, hydro resources, renewables like biomass...