ABSTRACT
Over the last three decades, China’s civil nuclear industry appears to be gradually decoupling from the military sector and government ministries. This suggests an institutional transformation that signals that civil nuclear power development could be shifting away from the governmental domain of key policy-makers. In its place, a multi-actor risk governance model is emerging that involves, at the top level, experts, policy makers, and authorities in nuclear power companies and, at the bottom level, pressure from local political elites, the media, a range of professional, business and NGO stakeholders, and the general public.
