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Issue No. 235 (Mar 2010)
COVER:
A Global Nuclear Energy Renaissance?
'Clean'
nuclear energy and a nuclear renaissance: hype and hyperbole
Praful Bidwai refutes
the claim that nuclear power is a safe alternative to carbon fuels and
also takes issue with the industry's rosy projection of a 'nuclear renaissance'.
BY PRAFUL BIDWAI
Nuclear
power and public safety
Any developing country with nuclear aspirations should consider
the risk of a catastrophic accident as a major negative attribute of
this technology.
BY ASHWIN KUMAR & MV RAMANA
America's
endangered radioactive relapse
The US President’s recent announcement
of loan guarantees to help fund new reactors only serves to highlight
the strong and widespread perception in financial markets that nuclear
energy investment is a risky business.
BY HARVEY WASSERMAN
India's dangerous love affair
with nuclear power
The Indian administration,
in its drive for nuclear expansion, is legislating to limit the liability
of nuclear energy investors in the event of accidents.
BY PRAFUL BIDWAI
Nuclear
power development in China
The following piece provides some
idea of China’s nuclear
energy expansion and its attitude to nuclear power.
BY DALE JIAJUN WEN
Nuclear
Japan:
A pox on MOX?
Quake-prone Japan upgrades its nuclear power plants.
Anti-nuke activists go radioactive.
BY JONATHAN ADAMS
South Korea's
global nuclear ambitions
South
Korea emerges as a major force in the nuclear energy
business and intensifies competition with established firms from the
US, EU and Japan
in emerging markets.
BY DAVID ADAM STOTT
ECOLOGY
Crops
and animals in Tajikistan:
Getting back on track
Keeping livestock under improved
management conditions could help curb a dramatic reduction in crop yield
and a matching drop in small farmers’ livelihoods in Tajikistan.
BY WILLEM VAN WEPEREN
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ECONOMICS
IMF:
Abandoning some sacred cows?
Has the IMF’s reversal of position on inflation and capital controls
been made more with the developed countries' interests in mind?
BY HUMBERTO CAMPODONICO
WORLD AFFAIRS
Archbishop
Romero, state terror and the quest for redemption
Michael K. Smith looks
back at the life and work of Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador.
BY MICHAEL K. SMITH
JSOC
interests snag plan to free Afghan detainees
An initiative to revise the procedures for reviewing the cases of
detainees has run afoul of the interests of officers of the powerful
US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC).
BY GARETH PORTER
HUMAN RIGHTS
US
comes under fire over housing rights
Millions of Americans are unable to secure the right to adequate
housing.
BY KANAGA RAJA
WOMEN
Egypt:
Battle for women judges half
won
Although the ban against female law graduates joining the State
Council in Egypt
has been overturned, the battle is far from over.
BY URSULA LINDSEY
VIEWPOINT
Russian
liberals in their theatre of the absurd
The current economic crisis has pushed Russian economic liberals
into taking even more extreme, irrational and dogmatic positions on
economic development.
BY BORIS KAGARLITSKY
MEDIA
An
Oscar for America's
hubris
The Oscar-winning film The
Hurt Locker characteristically treats the Iraqi people as mere props
for an enlightened Rambo story, says Robert Scheer.
BY ROBERT SCHEER
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