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Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy (Knopf, 2007), by Gwyneth Cravens, is an introduction to the benefits of nuclear power and the science behind it. It is written for members of the lay public who want to learn more about nuclear power, environmentalists concerned about global warming due to fossil fuel combustion; and scientists and others who work in the nuclear world.
Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy (2007) Protect and Survive (1980) The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation (2006) Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option (2007) Red Jihad (2012) The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy (1991) The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger ...
No Place to Hide (Bradley book) Non-Nuclear Futures; Normal Accidents; Not for the Faint of Heart; Nuclear Holocausts: Atomic War in Fiction; Nuclear Implosions; Nuclear Iran: Birth of an Atomic State; Nuclear Nebraska; Nuclear or Not? Nuclear Politics in America; Nuclear Power and the Environment; Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable ...
Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power: A Critical Global Assessment of Atomic Energy is a 2011 book by Benjamin K. Sovacool, published by World Scientific.Sovacool's book addresses the current status of the global nuclear power industry, its fuel cycle, nuclear accidents, environmental impacts, social risks, energy payback, nuclear power economics, and industry subsidies.
The book describes how fossil fuels remain the main source of energy for the world, while nuclear power manages to meet only three percent of the needs of world energy. This leads to the question: why is the figure so low when it is often read that nuclear is a key part of the "world energy mix"? The authors explain that the trick is in the ...
An energy audit is an inspection and analysis of energy use and flows for energy conservation in a structure, process, or system intending to reduce energy input without negatively affecting output. Energy audits can determine specific opportunities for energy conservation and efficiency measures as well as determine cost-effective strategies ...
He also notes that the book is "one of the few books to deal at all with the technical side of the bomb project." [6] Matthew Hersch writes that the book has "power to amaze", and that "The Los Alamos Primer is a work bound to be read differently by different generations ... [it] is a rich text that peers into a moment of innovation that had ...
It also promotes the benefits of nuclear energy for a cleaner world, and aims at uniting people in favor of clean nuclear energy. EFN is funded by the memberships and donations of its members. The website of the organization states that environmental opposition to nuclear energy is the "greatest misunderstanding and mistake of the century". [1]