{"id":1683,"date":"2013-02-07T13:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T18:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intelisystemstest.com\/gabi\/?p=1683"},"modified":"2018-01-30T11:11:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-30T16:11:28","slug":"national-sovereignty-and-nuclear-strategy-renaissance-rollback-or-restructuring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegabi.com\/?p=1683","title":{"rendered":"National Sovereignty and Nuclear Strategy\u2014Renaissance, Rollback, or Restructuring?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"document-view-title\">National Sovereignty and Nuclear Strategy\u2014Renaissance, Rollback, or Restructuring?<\/div>\n<div class=\"document-view-date\">February 07, 2013<\/div>\n<div class=\"document-view-content\">\n<p>The future growth and development of nuclear power will likely be dependent upon international public-private partnerships\u2014while industry cannot take the lead in this sector, national governments in some regions are becoming incapable of financing nuclear projects by themselves. The current period in which nation states are increasingly strained by fiscal deficits, aging populations, and growing societal commitments\u2014welfare and health programs, national defense, and infrastructure rebuilding\u2014foreshadows the emergence of \u201cMarket States\u201d (Philip Bobbitt).\u00a0 Market States look to enable and optimize opportunities and economic growth for their citizens and companies, rather than aiming to fund and provide programs and services. \u00a0Under this current evolution from the \u201cWestphalian state model\u201d (1640-1990), the deployment of nuclear plants and other energy asset developments will be undergirded not only by state-industry ties, but also via global collaboration. Three commercial nuclear strategies for Market States have emerged:\u00a0 \u00a0Rollback, Restructuring, and Renaissance.\u00a0 \u00a0At present, the \u201cNuclear Renaissance\u201d is being led by so-called \u201cMercantile\u201d Market States, chiefly in Asia, where relatively less political pluralism fosters stronger and longer-term commitments to nuclear power. \u00a0In North America, growth of nuclear power is challenged by the existence of intervening interests and since 2009, the prevalence of abundant, low cost shale gas.\u00a0 However, the USA, as a \u201cP5\u201d \u201cEntrepreneurial\u201d Market State (one of the Permanent UN Security Council members, as with UK, France, China, and Russia), is unlikely to engage in a nuclear \u201crollback\u201d strategy (akin to Germany or Italy, which are \u201cManagerial\u201d Market States) given its significant nuclear military and commercial assets.\u00a0\u00a0The USA leads the world in operation of nuclear plants with 104 reactors, but construction of new units is being led by Asian Market States. \u00a0For the US to fully join the nuclear renaissance and maintain its leadership and influence in the global nuclear market, developing relationships and strengthening alliances with countries such as Japan and South Korea will be critical, particularly in the areas of investment, technology refinement, and deployment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"document-view-image-frame clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"document-view-image-frame clearfix\"><a class=\"document-view-image\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thegabi.com\/upload\/nuclear\/roundtable\/015\/nwg002.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegabi.com\/upload\/_thumbs\/nuclear\/roundtable\/015\/nwg002.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"document-view-image\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thegabi.com\/upload\/nuclear\/roundtable\/015\/nwg007.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegabi.com\/upload\/_thumbs\/nuclear\/roundtable\/015\/nwg007.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"document-view-image\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thegabi.com\/upload\/nuclear\/roundtable\/015\/nwg012.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegabi.com\/upload\/_thumbs\/nuclear\/roundtable\/015\/nwg012.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"document-view-image\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thegabi.com\/upload\/nuclear\/roundtable\/015\/nwg013.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegabi.com\/upload\/_thumbs\/nuclear\/roundtable\/015\/nwg013.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"document-view-image\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thegabi.com\/upload\/nuclear\/roundtable\/015\/nwg014.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegabi.com\/upload\/_thumbs\/nuclear\/roundtable\/015\/nwg014.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"document-view-image\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thegabi.com\/upload\/nuclear\/roundtable\/015\/nwg016.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegabi.com\/upload\/_thumbs\/nuclear\/roundtable\/015\/nwg016.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"document-view-image\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thegabi.com\/upload\/nuclear\/roundtable\/015\/nwg017.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegabi.com\/upload\/_thumbs\/nuclear\/roundtable\/015\/nwg017.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"document-view-image\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thegabi.com\/upload\/nuclear\/roundtable\/015\/nwg021.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegabi.com\/upload\/_thumbs\/nuclear\/roundtable\/015\/nwg021.jpg\" \/><\/a> <a class=\"document-view-image\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thegabi.com\/upload\/nuclear\/roundtable\/015\/nwg023.jpg\" data-lightbox=\"image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thegabi.com\/upload\/_thumbs\/nuclear\/roundtable\/015\/nwg023.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Sovereignty and Nuclear Strategy\u2014Renaissance, Rollback, or Restructuring? February 07, 2013 The future growth and development of nuclear power will likely be dependent upon international public-private partnerships\u2014while industry cannot take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nuclear-energy","category-nuclear-energy-workshops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegabi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegabi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegabi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegabi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegabi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1683"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thegabi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3962,"href":"https:\/\/thegabi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1683\/revisions\/3962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegabi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegabi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegabi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegabi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}