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Why We Need Nuclear Power The Environmental Case




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Genere:Libro
Lingua: Inglese
Pubblicazione: 05/2014





Note Editore

The issue of nuclear power has become a polarizing one, especially in light of the increasing need for sustainable energy sources, and events like the 2011 nuclear disaster in Japan. The public has been largely wary and even fearful of a reliance on nuclear power, pointing to the reactor meltdown in Chernobyl or the Three-Mile Island accident as evidence that nuclear power is an unfeasible and dangerous source of energy. However, with these fears come misconceptions about the science behind nuclear power, and many arguments made against it lack the scientific grounding needed to contribute to the debate. At the same time, clean-energy sources like wind and solar have failed to prove that they can be used on a large enough scale to be relied upon. In Why We Need Nuclear Power: The Environmental Case, experienced radiation biologist Michael H. Fox replaces the misconceptions about nuclear power with real science, and argues that it may be the best source of energy both for large-scale use and slowing the effects of global warming. Fox relies on thirty-five years of experience studying the biological effects of radiation to explore the issues surrounding nuclear power, addressing which of the public's concerns on the issue are valid, and which are unsupported by science. He shows that nuclear power has crucial strategic importance in reducing the large amounts of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. This is the first book to lay out clearly what we know about the biological effects of radiation, and what science we use to know it. Why We Need Nuclear Power is a critical resource for anyone looking to understand the facts of the nuclear power issue, and what role nuclear power could play in reducing the environmental impact of the world's energy consumption.




Sommario

Table of Contents; Introduction; Part 1 Global Warming and Energy Production; 1 Global climate change: Real or myth?; What is the debate about?; The IPCC and International Conventions; The greenhouse effect; Skeptical politicians and pundits; Skeptical scientists; Historical temperature and greenhouse gas record; Last 10,000 years of climate - the Holocene; Recent changes in temperature and CO2; Melting glaciers and rising seas; Models; Response to Singer and Avery; Predictions of future global warming and consequences; Sea level and acidification; Global weirding; 2 Where our Energy Comes From; A brief history of energy; Coal; Oil and natural gas; Uranium; How much energy do we use and where does it come from?; World energy usage; What can be done to reduce our carbon-intensive energy economy?; 3 The Good, Bad and Ugly of Coal and Gas; Coal; Anatomy of a coal-fired plant; Carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutants; Mining and health hazards; How much is there? 50; Carbon Capture and Storage; Natural Gas; How much is there?; Greenhouse gas emissions; Fracking; 4 The Siren song of renewable energy; Solar; Photovoltaic (PV) solar power; Concentrated Solar Power (CSP); Solar heating; Limitations of solar power; Wind; Limitations of Wind Power; Summary; 5 Back to the Future: Nuclear Power; Anatomy of a reactor; Advantages of nuclear power; Baseload power 82; Greenhouse gas emission; Location and footprint; Cost; Subsidies for nuclear and renewables; Advanced Reactor Technology; Can nuclear replace coal?; Arguments against nuclear power; Part 2 Radiation and its Biological Effects; 6 The world of the atom; What is radiation?; Black body radiation - the quantum; The nuclear atom; The quantum atom; The nucleus; Radioactivity: decay processes; Fission; Summary; 7 How dangerous is radiation?; Interactions of Radiation with Matter; Electromagnetic radiation (photon) interactions; Charged particle interactions; Neutron interactions; What is a dose of radiation?; Effects of radiation on DNA and cells; How does radiation cause cancer?; What are the risks?; Death from radiation; Cancer from radiation; Hereditary effects of radiation; How bad is plutonium?; Summing up; 8 What comes naturally and not so naturally; Natural Background Radiation; Cosmic radiation; Primordial terrestrial radiation; Medical exposure; Part 3 Risks of Nuclear Power; 9 Nuclear Waste; What is nuclear waste?; The long and the short of waste storage; Yucca Mountain; Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP); Recycling spent nuclear fuel; Making new fuel from recycled "waste"; Summing up; 10 About those accidents; The Scare, March 16, 1979; Three Mile Island, March 28, 1979; How the accident happened; Consequences of TMI; Chernobyl, April 26, 1986; How the accident happened; The hazardous radioisotopes; Health consequences; Environmental consequences; A trip to Chernobyl; Consequences for nuclear power; Fukushima, March 11, 2011; How the accident happened; Health and environmental consequences; Consequences for nuclear power; Public perception of risks from nuclear power; 11 The Quest for Uranium; Mining for uranium; Shinkolobwe; Shiprock; Milling; In Situ Recovery; Enrichment; Fuel fabrication; World resources of uranium; Megatons to Megawatts; Is there enough uranium for a nuclear renaissance?; Breeder reactors; Thorium; Summary; 12 Now What?; Myth 1: Radiation is extremely dangerous and we don't understand it; Myth 2: There is no solution to the nuclear waste produced by nuclear power; Myth 3: Nuclear power is unsafe and nuclear accidents have killed hundreds of thousands of people; Myth 4: Uranium will run out too soon and mining it generates so much carbon dioxide that it loses its carbon-free advantage; Myth 5: Nuclear power is so expensive it can't survive in the marketplace; Afterword; Appendix A: Global warming; Earth's energy balance:; Radiative forcing; The emission scenarios of the IPCC special report on emissions scenarios (SRES); Appendix B Glossary of terms, definitions and units; Appendix C Glossary of acronyms and abbreviations; Appendix D Selected Nobel prizes; Index




Autore

Michael H. Fox is Emeritus Professor in the Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences at Colorado State University. He has been a radiation biologist for 35 years.










Altre Informazioni

ISBN:

9780199344574

Condizione: Nuovo
Dimensioni: 240 x 23.0 x 162 mm Ø 572 gr
Formato: Copertina rigida
Illustration Notes:55 figures
Pagine Arabe: 320


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