Title: Introduction. Sustainable development or sustained decay? The question facing the 'with or without nuclear energy' world

Authors: Andre Maisseu

Addresses: WONUC, 49, rue Lauriston, 75116 Paris, France

Abstract: With the return of nuclear energy to the global energy arena, it is once more possible to speak of a sustainable development that guarantees the future of our planet, our children and our children|s children. It is once more possible to promote the ambition and envisage the emergence of universal peace.

Keywords: IAEA; Atoms for Peace; Mohamed El-Baradei; fossil energies; green lobbying; Kyoto Protocol; Malthusian thinking; NGOs; Nobel Peace Prize; nuclear energy; climate change; predator-speculators; primary energy; world demand; nuclear power; sustainable development; sustainability; greenhouse gases; nuclear technology; International Atomic Energy Agency.

DOI: 10.1504/AFP.2006.010334

Atoms for Peace: an International Journal, 2006 Vol.1 No.2/3, pp.125 - 136

Published online: 15 Jul 2006 *

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