Fukushima and beyond: nuclear power in a low-carbon world

摘要

When Tony Benn was Britain's Energy Secretary, he warned about people who came to you with a problem, in one hand, and a solution in their back pocket. He learnt this from Britain's nuclear industry. One should keep this in mind when considering climate change as the latest rationale for expansion of the nuclear industry. This book, authored by a lecturer, researcher and academic in International Relations and International Security (School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts) at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Australia, is rooted in the premise that nuclear power is essential to climate change mitigation. The Fukushima nuclear disaster is used as a contextual leverage point to argue the counterfac-tual that this event, and more particularly the response to it, has made nuclear power more desirable than he contends it previously was. As the author states, rather blithely, on the issue of safety,...simply put, the nuclear energy sector is extremely safe because it must be.