The Nuclear Environmentalist : Is There a Green Road to Nuclear Energy?
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TextUtgivningsuppgift: Milano : Springer, 2012Datum för upphovsrätt: ©2012Utgåva: 1st edBeskrivning: 1 online resource (170 pages)Innehållstyp: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9788847024786
- 333.794
Intro -- The NuclearEnvironmentalist -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 All that Glitters is not Green -- 2 Eternal Delight -- 3 A Wasted Inheritance -- 4 The Ignoble Fuel -- 5 Manna Springing from the Earth -- 6 The Sacred Fire -- 7 On Board the Nautilus -- 8 The Bequest of a Supernova -- 9 Nuclear Reactors -- 10 Nuclear Power, No Thanks? -- 11 The Anti Nuclear Litany -- 12 Helios and Aeolus -- 13 At the Crossroads -- 14 Fukushima, or the Black Swan of Nuclear Energy.
This book discusses renewable energy, including the thesis that nuclear energy, although by no means problem-free, can be a viable source of concentrated, reliable and carbon free electricit, as part of a diversified and rational mix of electricity sources.
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