One size doesn't fit all: Social priorities and technical conflicts for small modular reactors

Energy Research and Social Science

Volumn 2, Issue , 2014, Pages 115-124

  Ramana, M V ^a   Mian, Zia ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Economics; Nuclear power; Safety; Small modular reactors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904678724     PISSN: 22146296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.erss.2014.04.015     Document Type: Article

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