The Ethics of Nuclear Energy : Risk, Justice, and Democracy in the Post-Fukushima Era Paperback / softback
Edited by Behnam (Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands) Taebi, Sabine (Technische Universiteit Delft, The Netherlands) Roeser
Paperback / softback
Description
Despite the nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan, a growing number of countries are interested in expanding or introducing nuclear energy.
However, nuclear energy production and nuclear waste disposal give rise to pressing ethical questions that society needs to face.
This book takes up this challenge with essays by an international team of scholars focusing on the key issues of risk, justice, and democracy.
The essays consider a range of ethical issues, including radiological protection, the influence of gender in the acceptability of nuclear risk, and environmental, international, and intergenerational justice in the context of nuclear energy.
They also address the question of when, and under which conditions, nuclear energy should play a role in the world's future supply of electricity, looking at both developing and industrialized countries.
The book will interest readers in ethics and political philosophy, social and political sciences, nuclear engineering, and policy studies.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:300 pages, 8 Tables, black and white; 6 Line drawings, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:15/03/2018
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- ISBN:9781107674974
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:300 pages, 8 Tables, black and white; 6 Line drawings, black and white
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:15/03/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9781107674974
