ABSTRACT
In 1981 the share of electric power generated by nuclear facilities was 38 percent in France, 36 percent in Sweden, 28 percent in Switzerland, 25 percent in Belgium and Taiwan, 16 percent in Japan, 14 percent in Germany, 13 percent in Britain, and 12 percent in the United States. The costs of increasingly lengthy regulatory reviews and extensive safety requirements have placed the nuclear industry in most nations in a serious recession. The effectiveness of the various inducements is unclear based on the public record, but it is clear that large stakes are involved in the world nuclear market. The tie between generation of nuclear energy and manufacture of nuclear weapons by individual states stems from the material that civil nuclear projects produce under the guise of legitimate activities. In years there has been increasing speculation that subnational groups might find nuclear weapons or nuclear facility sabotage attractive.
