Michael D. Mehta, Risky Business: Nuclear Power and Public Protest in Canada.(BOOKNOTES / REFERENCES BIBLIOGRAPHIQUES)(Brief art

Michael D. Mehta, Risky Business: Nuclear Power and Public Protest in Canada (Lanham, MD: Lexington Books 2005)

THE DURHAM Nuclear Awareness [DNA] was a grassroots movement that mobilized opposition to the relicensing of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station in 1994 by the Atomic Energy Control Board [AECB]. This book focuses on its challenge to the AECB's approach to risk assessment, an approach that relied on a narrow band of scientific and "expert" testimony, and minimized concerns regarding nuclear power posed by community and environmental groups. While the DNA demystified the arguments made by the nuclear industry, it lacked the political muscle to convince the AECB to withhold the license from Pickering. The book also summarizes the successes and failures of the international anti-nuclear movement, and provides an update on the fate of nuclear power in Ontario since 1994.

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