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Nuclear power in developing countries (1982)
| Author | J.Everett Katz, O.Marwah |
| Date | 1982 |
| Classification | 6.01.0.20/45 (IMPORTANCE WORLDWIDE) |
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From the publication:
Preface The increasingly controversial nature of nuclear energy continues to elicit a flow of reports, inquiries, critiques, and essays from which no significant consensus appears forthcoming. Massive studies have been launched, probing, in minute detail, the economic, ecological, safety, and weaponry potentials of nuclear power. However, there has been almost no systematic examination of the social processes that contribute to the deployment of nuclear technology or its consequences. Despite a third of a century of nuclear power commercialization, researchers have only now begun to examine empirically its societal aspects and, although studies relating such topics as bureaucratic politics, mass movements, and innovation processes to nuclear energy in developed countries are appearing now, almost no attention has been given yet to such issues in developing countries. This oversight is strange in view of the supposed potential of nuclear power and because an analysis of the processes leading to its adoption or rejection by these countries could elucidate the fundamental processes working toward modernization in less- developed countries (LDCs), as well as the cleavages and coalitions that arise among them. Also, research on this topic could tell us much, not only about decision making in traditional societies-and LDC linkages to the developed world-but also about the sociological and psychological significance of advanced technology itself.In an attempt to rectify this oversight, we began this study in the fall of 1978, blissfully unaware of the problems to be encountered as the project unfolded. Nuclear energy decision making in LDCs held special interest for us because it cut across a number of other questions related to decision making for technology, which was our general area of study.
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