TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fox,Michael H.
TI  - Why we need nuclear power: the environmental case 
SN  - 9780199344581
AV  - TK9153 .W499 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press, USA
KW  - Nuclear energy
KW  - Environmental aspects
KW  - Global warming
KW  - Prevention
KW  - Nuclear industry
KW  - Safety measures
KW  - Accidents
KW  - Radioactive waste disposal
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Machine generated contents note: --; Table of Contents --; Introduction --; Part 1 Global Warming and Energy Production --; 1 Global climate change: Real or myth? --; What is the debate about? --; The IPCC and International Conventions --; The greenhouse effect --; Skeptical politicians and pundits --; Skeptical scientists --; Historical temperature and greenhouse gas record --; Last 10,000 years of climate --; the Holocene --; Recent changes in temperature and CO2 --; Melting glaciers and rising seas --; Models --; Response to Singer and Avery --; Predictions of future global warming and consequences --; Sea level and acidification --; Global weirding --; 2 Where our Energy Comes From --; A brief history of energy --; Coal --; Oil and natural gas --; Uranium --; How much energy do we use and where does it come from? --; World energy usage --; What can be done to reduce our carbon-intensive energy economy? --; 3 The Good, Bad and Ugly of Coal and Gas --; Coal --; Anatomy of a coal-fired plant --; Carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutants --; Mining and health hazards --; How much is there? 50 --; Carbon Capture and Storage --; Natural Gas --; How much is there? --; Greenhouse gas emissions --; Fracking --; 4 The Siren song of renewable energy --; Solar --; Photovoltaic (PV) solar power --; Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) --; Solar heating --; Limitations of solar power --; Wind --; Limitations of Wind Power --; Summary --; 5 Back to the Future: Nuclear Power --; Anatomy of a reactor --; Advantages of nuclear power --; Baseload power 82 --; Greenhouse gas emission --; Location and footprint --; Cost --; Subsidies for nuclear and renewables --; Advanced Reactor Technology --; Can nuclear replace coal? --; Arguments against nuclear power --; Part 2 Radiation and its Biological Effects --; 6 The world of the atom --; What is radiation? --; Black body radiation --; the quantum --; The nuclear atom --; The quantum atom --; The nucleus --; Radioactivity: decay processes --; Fission --; Summary --; 7 How dangerous is radiation? --; Interactions of Radiation with Matter --; Electromagnetic radiation (photon) interactions --; Charged particle interactions --; Neutron interactions --; What is a dose of radiation? --; Effects of radiation on DNA and cells --; How does radiation cause cancer? --; What are the risks? --; Death from radiation --; Cancer from radiation --; Hereditary effects of radiation --; How bad is plutonium? --; Summing up --; 8 What comes naturally and not so naturally --; Natural Background Radiation --; Cosmic radiation --; Primordial terrestrial radiation --; Medical exposure --; Part 3 Risks of Nuclear Power --; 9 Nuclear Waste --; What is nuclear waste? --; The long and the short of waste storage --; Yucca Mountain --; Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) --; Recycling spent nuclear fuel --; Making new fuel from recycled "waste" --; Summing up --; 10 About those accidents --; The Scare, March 16, 1979 --; Three Mile Island, March 28, 1979 --; How the accident happened --; Consequences of TMI --; Chernobyl, April 26, 1986 --; How the accident happened --; The hazardous radioisotopes --; Health consequences --; Environmental consequences --; A trip to Chernobyl --; Consequences for nuclear power --; Fukushima, March 11, 2011 --; How the accident happened --; Health and environmental consequences --; Consequences for nuclear power --; Public perception of risks from nuclear power --; 11 The Quest for Uranium --; Mining for uranium --; Shinkolobwe --; Shiprock --; Milling --; In Situ Recovery --; Enrichment --; Fuel fabrication --; World resources of uranium --; Megatons to Megawatts --; Is there enough uranium for a nuclear renaissance? --; Breeder reactors --; Thorium --; Summary --; 12 Now What? --; Myth 1: Radiation is extremely dangerous and we don't understand it --; Myth 2: There is no solution to the nuclear waste produced by nuclear power --; Myth 3: Nuclear power is unsafe and nuclear accidents have killed hundreds of thousands of people --; Myth 4: Uranium will run out too soon and mining it generates so much carbon dioxide that it loses its carbon-free advantage --; Myth 5: Nuclear power is so expensive it can't survive in the marketplace --; Afterword --; Appendix A: Global warming --; Earth's energy balance: --; Radiative forcing --; The emission scenarios of the IPCC special report on emissions scenarios (SRES) --; Appendix B Glossary of terms, definitions and units --; Appendix C Glossary of acronyms and abbreviations --; Appendix D Selected Nobel prizes --; Index; 2; b
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