Risky Business: Nuclear Power and Public Protest in Canada

This David and Goliath story chronicles and analyzes how a small, under-funded public interest group - Durham Nuclear Awareness of Oshawa, Ontario - mobilized opposition to the December re-licensing of the Pickering Nuclear Generating Station. Michael D. Mehta uses the struggle between Durham Nuclear Awareness and Canadas nuclear establishment to illustrate how risk as a concept can be used to understand contemporary political conflicts.