Atomic blackmail – Russia-Ukraine war and Ramberg’s theory of vulnerability
Journal: International Journal of Environmental Studies
Year: 2024

The Russia-Ukraine War is being fought between states committed to nuclear power.This paper references Ramberg's nuclear powerplant (NPP) vulnerability treatise, the IAEA's Seven Pillars of Safety metric and Pidgeon and O'Leary's safety imagination approach to assess the safety of Ukrainian and Russian NPPs.It suggests governments should reflect on events in Ukraine, and, with reference to the above-mentioned approaches, decide whether the upside of nuclear power -the largely carbon-neutral prod