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Nuclear Power in Latin America: An Overview of Its Present Status

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Margarete K. Luddemann
Margarete K. Luddemann*
Affiliation:
Interdevelopment, Inc., Arlington, Virginia
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The pivotal role energy plays in national economics not only converts the access to sources of supply into a vivid issue of foreign policy concern, but also causes an understandable preoccupation with investment capabilities and self-sufficiency. A report prepared by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in 1974 predicted a bright future for nuclear energy in the i developing countries and encouraged use of this form of energy after numerous field studies.

A nation that commits itself to nuclear energy by purchasing nuclear power-generating technology but not fuel cycle facilities incurs the risk of becoming dependent upon the supplier country because a quick switch to alternative sources of supply is difficult in cases of curtailment of fuel.

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Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , August 1983 , pp. 377 - 415
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Copyright © University of Miami 1983

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