THE POST-SOVIET NUCLEAR-POWER PROGRAM

A noted Western specialist on the 1986 accident at the Chernobyl' nucl ear power plant examines the recent history and current status of nucl ear power development in the successor states of the former Soviet Uni on. The paper analyzes strategies nuclear proponents have employed sin ce Chernobyl' to deflect criticism of nuclear power generation and bui ld support for an enhanced role for the industry. It then reviews plan s for new construction, re-starts, and/or capacity additions in Russia , Ukraine, Belarus', Lithuania, and, Armenia in light of those countri es' energy alternatives, relations with neighboring states, and domest ic political situations. 1 table, 17 references.