An Evaluation of the Role of Africa in the World Nuclear Economy

B I Logan
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B I Logan: Department of Geography, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA

Environment and Planning C, 1988, vol. 6, issue 3, 335-347

Abstract: In this paper the author investigates the present role of Africa in the world nuclear economy. The continent is a major producer of uranium, and a potential site for nuclear waste dumps, but participates only minimally in the actual use of nuclear energy. This role, it is argued, is inimical to efforts for long-term development. Some of the fallacies which perpetuate this role, especially the economic rationality of waste imports, are investigated and there is an elaboration of the need for a policy framework to change the existing conditions under which the region participates in the world nuclear economy. Alternative strategies to effect these changes are evaluated, and a regional approach is considered to be the most realistic.

Date: 1988
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DOI: 10.1068/c060335

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