| Pay to Play: How U.S. Nonproliferation Policy Is Linked to Civilian Nuclear Power
Slawter, Bruce
American Interest, September/October 2009, v5, #1, pp79-84
"The U.S. commercial nuclear power industry has languished for years, notes the author, a result of huge cost overruns on plants built in the 1970s and 1980s, and of notable accidents such as those at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl. The decline of expertise and research in the U.S. nuclear power industry is now translating into erosion of our ability to influence nonproliferation internationally, notes Slawter, as other countries, notably France, Japan, Russia and now China surpass the U.S. in certain areas of reactor development. Slawter notes that what is emerging is a “pay-to-play” arrangement -- in order to be recognized as a nuclear authority, countries have to invest in their own nuclear technology."
Bruce D. Slawter served as the Director for International Nuclear Energy Policy at the U.S. Department of Energy from 2007-2008.
Go to the article at:
http://www.the-american-interest.com/article-bd.cfm?piece=660
A12/05-09. Posted December 1, 2009
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