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포스트소비에트 러시아의 반핵운동: 원자력산업 관련 이슈를 중심으로 : Anti-Nuclear Movement in Post-Soviet Russia: Focusing on Nuclear Industry
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- Issue Date
- 2011
- Publisher
- 서울대학교 러시아연구소
- Citation
- 러시아연구, Vol.21 No.2, pp. 181-213
- Abstract
- In the wake of the disastrous Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986, strong anti-nuclear sentiment spread in the Soviet Union, leading to the emergence
of an anti-nuclear movement. As a result, the Russian government was unable
to pursue further development of the nuclear industry in the 1990s. However,
from the beginning of the 2000s, the Russian government, particularly the
Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy, has been vigorously seeking the
commercialization and modernization of the nuclear industry, including the
construction of new nuclear power plants, the importation of spent nuclear
fuel from abroad, and the construction of MOX fuel plants. This raised
strong opposition from the Russian anti-nuclear NGOs, as well as from
ordinary citizens. Against this background, this paper evaluates the achievement and limitations of the anti-nuclear movement in post-Soviet Russia. After
examining the Soviet legacy of the nuclear industry, it explores the range and
issues of the anti-nuclear activities of Russian environmental NGOs.
Consequently, this paper argues that the Russian anti-nuclear movement has
been successful in mobilizing ordinary citizens in regard to some specific
issues, but it has to find out appropriate measures in order to effectively
affect government policies in the future as it is doomed to face an
ever-increasingly authoritarian regime.
- ISSN
- 1229-1056
- Language
- Korean
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