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The Politics of Nuclear Energy in Asia

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Nuclear Energy Development in Asia

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Nuclear energy is politically sensitive. For its proponents, it is clean, highly efficient and the only alternative to fossil fuels in providing a base supply of electricity. For its opponents, however, nuclear energy is nothing but trouble – a symbol of war and weaponry, dangerous and highly risky, and it creates environmental problems not only for the current generation but the future too.

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Yi-chong, X. (2011). The Politics of Nuclear Energy in Asia. In: Yi-chong, X. (eds) Nuclear Energy Development in Asia. Energy, Climate and the Environment Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230306332_2

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