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Earth is a nuclear planet : the environmental case for nuclear power / Mike Conley & Tim Maloney ; senior science advisor, Stephen A. Boyd, Ph.D.

Conley, Mike, (author.). Maloney, Tim, (author.).

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ISBN: 9781637700594
ISBN: 1637700598
Physical Description: xxii, 463 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Peru, Illinois : Carus Books, 2024.
Copyright: ©2024

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Acronyms and abbreviations -- Foreword -- It May Surprise You to Learn That ... -- Chapter One: The Only Thing We Have to Fear -- Chapter Two: Zoomies! We're Doomed! -- Chapter Three: A Half-life Well Lived -- Chapter Four: A Fate Worse than Global Warming -- Chapter Five: "Waste Not, Want Not." -- Chapter Six: Back to the Future -- Chapter Seven: To Be Perfectly Blunt -- Chapter Eight: How Clean Should Clean Energy Be? -- Chapter Nine: How It All Began -- Chapter Ten: There Is No Safe Dose of BS -- Chapter Eleven: How Ed Lewis Went Off the Rails -- Chapter Twelve: Who Framed Nuclear Power? -- Chapter Thirteen: LNT vs. the 100 mSv Threshold -- Chapter Fourteen: LNT vs. Common Sense -- Chapter Fifteen: That Depends on What You Mean by "Reasonable" -- Chapter Sixteen: The Forbidden Zone -- Chapter Seventeen: What Are the Odds? -- Chapter Eighteen: Contain Yourself -- Chapter Nineteen: You Can't Get There from Here -- Chapter Twenty: "Strange Days, Indeed." -- Chapter Twenty-One: Make Energy, Not War -- Chapter Twenty-Two: We Will Now Begin Boarding -- Endnotes -- Supplements -- Afterword -- Index.