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The Fast Breeder Reactor: Need? Cost? Risk?

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  • © 1980
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Editors:
  1. Colin Sweet

    1. Polytechnic of the South Bank, London, UK

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Colin Sweet
      Pages 1-9

  3. The Fast Breeder in Energy Policy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
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    2. Energy Perspectives for the UK

      • Leslie Grainger
      Pages 13-21

    3. Some Policy Aspects of the Fast Reactor Question

      • John Surrey
      Pages 23-30

    4. The Electricity Sector and Energy Policy

      • Peter Odell
      Pages 31-39

    5. A Low-Energy Growth Alternative

      • Gerald Leach
      Pages 41-48

    6. Technology and Energy Supply

      • Meredith W. Thring
      Pages 49-57

  5. Economic Appraisals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 117-117
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    2. The Economics of Coal and Nuclear Power Plants

      • Michael J. Prior
      Pages 119-142

    3. Nuclear Power Economics

      • P. M. S. Jones
      Pages 143-161

    4. Critique of the Economic Case for the Fast Reactor

      • Colin Sweet
      Pages 163-174

  6. Political Problems of Fast Reactors

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
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    2. Plutonium and Proliferation Problems

      • Bhupendra Jasani
      Pages 177-189

    3. Nuclear Power and Civil Liberties

      • David Widdicombe
      Pages 191-198
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    Colin Sweet

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