Nuclear Energy
Boom, Bust, and Emerging Renaissance
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 12 August 2025
- ISBN 9780198925798
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 253x180x20 mm
- Weight 724 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 26 line illustrations and halftones 686
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Short description:
This book provides insight with non-technical explanations of how nuclear reactor technology holds the promise of making significant contributions to the struggle against global warming, and why dozens of nations are engaged in innovation and expansion of nuclear technology.
MoreLong description:
Questions of energy policy are among the most central and consequential of any confronting society today. While the role of nuclear energy is key, there is little understanding and much misinformation regarding its nature and its potential. Impeding the emergence of informed discourse on this topic is the lack of clear, objective information. Nuclear Energy: Boom, Bust and Emerging Renaissance helps answer the question of "What role can nuclear energy play in meeting the global warming challenge?"
Currently, the public has little access to developments that have been made in nuclear energy technology since the accidents of Chernobyl and Fukushima. These new designs promise to come to fruition around 2030, as the 28th United Nations Conference on Climate Change (COP28) witnessed a call for a tripling of the use of nuclear power by 2050. Edward A. Friedman places the troubling issues of nuclear power into both historical and forward-looking contexts, first by exploring the consequences since the first reactor was connected to a public electrical grid, and then by envisioning radically new designs that promise a safe path toward achieving net-zero carbon emissions. With non-technical explanations, this book provides insight of how nuclear reactor technology holds the promise of making significant contributions to the struggle against global warming, and why dozens of nations are engaged in innovation and expansion of nuclear technology.
Timely and insightful, Nuclear Energy will appeal to the lay reader while also serving as a college-level text for both non-science students studying energy policy or sustainability and students of science and technology.
Table of Contents:
The Energy Stored in Atoms
US Developments: 1940—1945
US Developments 1945—1960
US Developments 1960—2000
Nuclear Resistance
Reactor Development in Britain
Reactor Development in France
Reactor Development in Russia
Reactor Development in China
Reactor Development in Other Countries
The Three Mile Island Accident
The Chernobyl Accident
The Fukushima Accident
Solar, Wind, and Battery Power
Generation-III Reactors
Fuel, Waste, and Radioactivity
Generation-IV Reactors
Molten-salt Reactors
Liquid-sodium Reactors (LSRs)
Liquid Lead-cooled Fast Reactors
High-temperature Gas-cooled Reactors
Floating Nuclear Reactors
Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)
Nuclear Reactor Export Market
Meeting the Global Warming Challenge
