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When Japan’s Fukushima nuclear reactors failed in the wake of a major earthquake and tsunami in 2011, Carleton University’s Trevor Findlay was in the middle of writing a report examining global nuclear policy.
Findlay found that the immediate international response to the disaster revealed gaps in the powers and capacities of the global ‘nuclear watchdog’, the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency. He has devoted much of his research since then at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs (NPSIA) looking deeper into why.
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