The role of history in the acceptance of nuclear power in the U.S. and Canada

The present article reviews the status of nuclear power in the United States and Canada, outlines the nuclear histories of these continental neighbors, suggests the role that contrasts in those histories may have played in bringing the two nations to somewhat different positions on the nuclear question, and discusses two other factors that may be even more decisive: the level of confidence in government and the perception of the potential role of nuclear power in regional and national energy economics