Seeing the Light: The Case for Nuclear Power in the 21st Century by Graham, Jr, Thomas -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Coverpage Half title Title page Imprints page Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction

A Brief Long Story References

1 Why Nuclear and Why Now?

This Time the Future Will Be Different A New Era Underway Air Pollution: World’s Deadliest Killer? The Climate Factor The Nuclear Alternative A First Conclusion References

2 How It Began: Weapons and Their Legacy

In the Beginning: A Letter Weapons and Tests: Race to World’s End The Arms Race: A Compressed History Of Arms and the Ban: Early Treaties The Kennedy Speech The Widening Gyre: Postwar Legacy References

3 What is Nuclear Energy? Some Helpful Background

Beginnings: Rutherford’s Atom How Much Energy? How to: The Bomb How to: Reactors How a Modern Nuclear Reactor Works Fuel and the Fuel Cycle Waste and Waste Disposal Reactor Designs – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow A Brief Word at the End References

4 Nuclear Energy for Society: The Beginnings

The First Reactors The Earliest Years Promises of Atomic Wonder First Generation Electricity: A Mixed Tale Triumph of the LWR Conclusion: Chances Missed References

5 Radiation: A Guide for the Perplexed

What It Is Where It Comes From How It’s Measured Why Effects Can Be Different When Is It Harmful? Hermann Muller and the LNT Hypothesis A Plane Trip to Kerala How Dangerous, Really? References

6 Chernobyl and Fukushima: Meaning and Legacy

Burned into Memory Chernobyl – The What, How, and Why Fukushima: A Different Collection of Errors Fukushima Response Impacts on the Public: A Tale of Two Accidents

Chernobyl Fukushima

What Have We Learned? The Idea of “Normal Accidents”: Relevant Today? Some Perspective References

7 Godzilla’s Children: Origins and Meaning of Nuclear Anxiety

Nuclear Anxiety: An Introduction Perception and Proportion Pandora’s Touch: A Brief History of Fear Bodega Bay and the Pattern of Protest Lessons from a Clamshell and a Physicist Antinuclearism in Europe Last Years of the Cold War to the First Years of the New Century Is Nuclear Anxiety a Global Phenomenon? Concluding Statement: The Consequences of Nuclear Fear References

8 Why Not Nuclear? Points and Counterpoints

Overview Dangerous and Accident Prone Accidents Contaminate Huge Areas Waste Disposal Is an Unsolvable Problem Aging Nuclear Plants Are a Growing Threat Uranium Mining Has a High Environmental Cost Nuclear Plants Use and Contaminate Vast Amounts of Water Achilles Heel of Nuclear: Cost

Historical Trends at Present

Nuclear Reactors and Weapons Are Too Closely Linked Conclusion: Beyond Myth References

9 Global Energy and Nuclear Power: The Next Thirty Years

Energy Trends: A Changing World Status and Outlook for Renewable Energy Demand for Electricity: Choice of Sources Nuclear Power Today – An Overview Energy Security: Why So Important? Nuclear Power Today: Case Studies

China Turkey Ghana

Conclusions: The Need for Noncarbon Energy References

10 The New Context: Global Climate Change

How We Got Here The Role of Carbon Energy Our Climate Situation and Its Impacts Views from the Front References

11 Launching a New Nuclear Power State: The United Arab Emirates

The Nuclear Rationale Political Questions Success Arrives Internationalism: A Key Component Success and the Lessons of Fukushima References

12 Nuclear Nonproliferation: What Have We Learned in Sixty Years?

The Great Chance The Post-Cold War Era Nations Wanting Weapons: From India to Iran The NPT: Origin, History, and Significance The Right to Peaceful Nuclear Energy What Have We Learned? References

13 Conclusion: Is Nuclear Power Essential?

Weighing the Future Einstein Has an Opinion

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