Half-Lives: The Canadian Guide to Nuclear Technology in Canada
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Canada
- Date of Publication 4 June 2009
- ISBN 9780195431520
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages220 pages
- Size 229x153x18 mm
- Weight 392 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 56 black and white illustrations 0
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Short description:
In the face of climate change and oil shortages, nuclear technology offers many important possibilities. Half-Lives evaluates the promise of nuclear technology as a source of clean energy, as well as the wide range of applications in medicine and industry it offers in a uniquely Canadian context.
Without math or complicated science, Half-Lives explains the fundamentals of nuclear reactions and radioactivity. The uses of nuclear technology in Canada are explored in clear, accessible language, from uranium mining to electricity-producing nuclear power reactors (including the Canadian-designed CANDU reactor), to nuclear medicine and industrial applications.
Long description:
In the face of climate change and oil shortages, nuclear technology offers many important possibilities. Separating myth from reality, Half-Lives evaluates the promise of nuclear technology as a source of clean energy, as well as the wide range of applications in medicine and industry it offers in a uniquely Canadian context.
Without math or complicated science, Half-Lives explains the fundamentals of nuclear reactions and radioactivity. The uses of nuclear technology in Canada are explored in clear, accessible language, from uranium mining to electricity-producing nuclear power reactors (including the Canadian-designed CANDU reactor), to nuclear medicine and industrial applications. Accentuated with photographs, text boxes, short biographies of key scientists, diagrams, two appendices, and a glossary, this book
will also have an important role as a key reference tool.
First published in 2002, Half-Lives remains the only book to consider nuclear technology from a Canadian perspective; this new edition updates the issues in light of industry developments, politics, and environmental crisis.
The book is well organised and written with many relevant diagrams and photographs.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Nuclear Technology at the Crossroads
Splitting the Atom
Radiation Everywhere
Biological Effects of Radiation
Electricity and an Impending Energy Crisis
CANDU: The Canadian Reactor
The Global Nuclear Picture
Safety: The Prime Imperative
Nuclear Power and the Environment
High-Level Nuclear Waste
Nuclear Medicine: The Gift of Life
Nuclear Technology in Industry and Science: Vast Potential
Uranium: The Nuclear Fuel
The Fission Future
Fusion: The Energy of the Future?
Research: The Path Forward
Appendix A
Appendix B
Glossary
