Issue 4: Governance. Governance of the nuclear industry - Personal comments and some aspects of the Brazilian case

Nuclear Industry is very specific with respect to its quality, safety and safeguards requirements and also very broad concerning the number of knowledge fields and industrial specialties involved. The nuclear cycle from mine to final waste repository is perhaps the dorsal spine of this industry long range viability, but even among the more important players (encouragers and believers) there is no consensus on what the best solution is. The inherent political sensibility of the nuclear issues brings very strong constrains and drivers, that escape a sensible technical assessment, making a widely accept 'solution vision' very difficult to achieve. It is my understanding that the solution space for this problem is at the global or at least at the multi-regional level in a self coordinating fashion. Even large countries alone cannot achieve an optimal solution, because an integrated global solution can have large comparative advantages in terms of scale, land characteristics, political maturity and so on. In short the governance problem of the nuclear industry has to do with steering the multiple players, in the global decision processing, to pursue the endeavour of a achieving a shared vision on the above mentioned problem