Nuclear Energy Safety Challenges in the Former Soviet Union: A Consensus Report of the Csis Congressional Study Group and Task Force (Csis Panel Report). This item is unavailable.Nuclear Energy Safety Challenges in the Former Soviet Union: A Consensus Report of the Csis Congressional Study Group and Task Force (Csis Panel Report)

Fifteen nuclear reactors of the type that exploded at Chernobyl in April 1986 are still operating in Russia, Ukraine, and Lithuania. The West, concerned about safety of operations, wants these reactors shut down, but the host nations refuse. The electricity these reactors supply is much too important for their economies, so the argument goes. The report defines policy options and procedures to implement those options for the acceptable resolution of the nuclear power safety issues facing the former Soviet Union.

Robert E. Ebel is an internationally recognized expert on oil and energy issues in the former Soviet Union and the newly independent states. He has held posts at the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department of the Interior, and the Federal Energy Office. He traveled to the Soviet Union in 1960 as a member of the first U.S. petroleum industry delegation, in 1969 as a member of a natural gas delegation, and in 1971 with the first group of Americans to visit the oil fields in Western Siberia. He is a past chairman of the Washington Export Council and a past member of the Board of Directors of American Near East Refugee Aid. Mr. Ebel is the author of two recent CSIS publications: Energy Choices in Russia and Chernobyl and Its Aftermath.