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In The Politics of CANDU Exports, Duane Bratt provides a comprehensive history of the export of the Canada Deuterium-Uranium (CANDU) reactor - a pressurized heavy water natural-uranium power reactor designed and marketed by Atomic Energy of Canada Limited. Bratt examines every CANDU sale, as well as some important unsuccessful sales attempts, from 1956 to the present. He also outlines the impact that changes in the international political climate such as the creation and strengthening of the international nuclear non-proliferation regime, and the increasing importance of human rights and environmental protection, have had on CANDU exports over the last fifty years.
Bratt's study attempts to develop a framework for understanding the ebb and flow of the influences of different foreign policy objectives on Canada's decision-making process. There are litanies of economic and political interests that Canadian governments have hoped to serve by exporting CANDUs, interests such as economic gain, containing communism, and assisting the developing world. Yet, Canada has additional foreign policy objectives such as national security, the protection of human rights, and preservation of the environment, which constrain the desire to export CANDUs. Furthermore, the nature of the debate surrounding CANDU exports has changed over time. Bratt shows that while the traditional debate over CANDU exports was between Canada's commercial interests and its security concerns, since the early 1990s a new debate focused on two separate planes of argument has emerged. The economic benefits of exporting the CANDU reactors are now weighed against the economic cost of extensive government subsidies; while the environmental benefits of CANDU exports are measured against the environmental costs of building and promoting nuclear power.
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Acronym
Introduction
Origins of Canada's Nuclear Program
Organization of This Book
Justifying CANDU Exports
Economics
Politics
Constraints on CANDU Exports
Nuclear Proliferation
Human Rights
Nuclear Safety and Environmental Values
Government Subsidies
The Anti-Nuclear Lobby
The Need to Establish Markets, 1945-1974
India: CIRUS, 1956
India: RAPP I, 1963
Pakistan: KANUPP, 1965
India: RAPP II, 1966
Taiwan: TRR, 1969
Argentina: Embalse, 1973
South Korea: Wolsung I, 1973
Strengthening Safeguards, 1974-1976
Changes to Canada's Non-Proliferation Policy
India: Suspension of Nuclear Assistance
South Korea's Safeguards Agreement
Argentina's Safeguards Agreements
India: Termination of Nuclear Cooperation
Pakistan: Termination of Nuclear Cooperation
Suffering the Consequences, 1977-1989
Romania: Cernavoda I, 1978
Argentina: Atucha II, 1979
Export Failures in the 1980s
Nuclear Renaissance, 1990-1996
South Korea: Wolsung II to IV, 1990-2
Romania: Increasing Nuclear Cooperation, 1991
China: Qinshan I and II, 1996
New Challenges and New Opportunities, 1997-2005
Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Human Rights
Nuclear Safety and Environmental Protection
Government Subsidies
Economics
Explaining CANDU Exports
Clashing Nuclear Actors
Appendix: Basics of Nuclear Energy
Notes
Bibliography
Index