The Power of Nuclear
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Sigma
- Date of Publication 7 November 2024
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9781399419079
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 220x142x28 mm
- Weight 417 g
- Language English 770
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Long description:
From the pilot's seat in the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, to Chernobyl's exclusion zone and to the site in Finland where highly radioactive waste will be buried, this is the incredible story of nuclear power.
Providing a vivid account of the characters and events that have shaped the world's most controversial energy source and our thinking around it, The Power of Nuclear weaves politics, culture and technology to explore nuclear power's past and future.
In his quest to disentangle myth from facts, Marco Visscher asks: How dangerous is radiation? What should you do after a nuclear accident? Have nuclear weapons really made the world less safe? And why do some still reject the evidence showing the atom can provide unlimited clean energy, free countries of their dependence on fossil fuels and combat climate change?
This is an informed look at what we might do with nuclear power - and what nuclear power is doing to us.
Table of Contents:
1. Pandemonium: Why did we need to split the atom?
2. A Welcome Distraction: Why the enthusiasm about nuclear energy?
3. The Reckoning: Why the resistance against nuclear energy
4. Doomed: What went wrong in the world's biggest nuclear disaster
5. A Strange Glow: How dangerous is radiation?
6. Exodus: What should you (not) do after a nuclear accident?
7. Peace With the Atomic Bomb: Have nuclear weapons really made the world less safe?
8. Perverse Incentives: Was the industry itself responsible for the decline in nuclear power?
9. Heated: How can nuclear energy combat climate change?
10. Hidden Treasure: What should we do with nuclear waste?
11. Dreaming of Progress: What does the future of nuclear energy look like?
