Japan's Wishful Nuclear Thinking: What Price Power?

Tony Barrell

doi:10.1017/S1557466007020220

Japan's Wishful Nuclear Thinking: What Price Power?

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 May 2025

Tony Barrell

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Nuclear power stations now produce about 17% of the world's electricity. In France and Lithuania nearly 80%, in Britain about 25%. Popular attitudes to nuclear power in other countries vary from apathy and indifference to fear and loathing. For the most part it would be fair to say, that as long as they don't contaminate the environment, and there are no blackouts, nuclear reactors must be a good thing. What has been the record of the countries that have been using nuclear power for decades?

Type: Research Article
Information: Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , e25

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1557466007020220 [Opens in a new window]
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