A report from David Lochbaum from the Union of Concerned Scientists about year-plus outages at nuclear power plants, including an evaluation of the NRC’s performance.
“This study serves as the first comprehensive account of the impact of nuclearism on Native Americans in the U.S. Southwest-- and account that also points to a much larger problem of nuclear colonialism worldwide, in which nuclear activities continue on lands historically inhabited by indigenous people.”
Physician and anti-nuclear activist Dr. Helen Caldicott counters industry propaganda with the true costs and consequences of nuclear power.
You can read our review of Nuclear Power is Not the Answer here.
“The objective of this book is not to blow the lid off the nuclear industry, but to provide a peek behind its curtain. The stories are presented as amusing anecdotes and informative narratives instead of as critical assessments.”
The print copy is hard to find, but follow the link to the original source, David Lochbaum’s blog “Fission Stories”
“A clear, responsible position between the extremes of nuclear advocacy and nuclear abolition-- offering a critically important alternative to the black-and-white world so often portrayed in the current nuclear arms debate.”
Thought-provoking illustrated essays on nuclear power, the health effects of radiation, energy efficiency, solar energy, public health concepts, technology, science and medicine, human rights, liberty, law, nuclear weapons, and “suggestions for possibly useful actions.”
Renowned for their research on the effects of radiation on the environment and human health, scientists Gofman and Tamplin present their case against nuclear power, and “expose the moral corruption of scientists, lawyers, physicians, industrialists, and government leaders in attempting to deceive the public into believing that there exists such a thing as a ‘safe,’ ‘permissible,’ or ‘allowable’ dose of radiation.”
Sleepwalking to Armageddon is a compilation of essays on the mechanics, the likelihood and the potential consequences of nuclear war, should bellicosity become reality. Contributors include esteemed thinkers and scientists representing a wide range of relevant experience.
Edited by Nobel Prize Nominee and pediatrician Dr. Helen Caldicott, this slim volume is a particularly timely book during this second year of an American administration that has openly flirted with nuclear war with North Korea. The current American administration has brought us closer to that un-winnable scenario than we have ever been since those terrifying days in 1962.
The NRC’s Reactor Safety Study (RSS) was published in 1975, and was used by the Federal government as definitive proof that nuclear reactors were safe to operate. In 1977 the Union of Concerned Scientists published this independent evaluation of the NRC’s study, which challenged the NRC’s position.
Just two years later in 1979 the Three Mile Island nuclear plant melted down and changed history…
The hundred year history of the electric power business in the United States. The conflicts between public and private interests are highlighted, as well as the politics behind energy policy.
An examination of the Atomic Energy Commission, commercial nuclear power, and the role of experts in public policy debate.
“An excellent and pioneering study of a pervasive problem in the historical relationship between science and public policy” (Samuel Hays, University of Pittsburgh).
“Waging constant war against public ownership, the industry could have gone solar in the 1950s, but opted for the trillion-dollar dead end of atomic energy. Now, through deregulation, it wants YOU to pay.”
“A compelling and fast-paced account of the decades-long struggle to wrest control of electricity from public hands... an essential guide to the contemporary industrial, environmental, and political landscape.”
Makhijani, the President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research with a PhD in nuclear fusion, tells us how we can lessen our dependence on fossil fuels and mitigate climate change without resorting to nuclear power, and without damaging our economy.
"Reinventing Fire shows us that we neither need to freeze in the dark, nor go back to the Stone Age, to ensure a healthy, habitable planet for ourselves and our descendants." --Andy Kerr, Home Power
The world’s nuclear statistics are distorted by an anomaly whose cause is not technical but political. Three years after the Fukushima events started unfolding on 11 March 2011, government, industry and international institutional organizations continue to misrepresent the effects of the disaster on the Japanese nuclear program. To find a more appropriate way to deal with this situation, the World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2014 proposes a new category called Long-Term Outage (LTO).
A highly-readable historical and scientific account of quantum theory, written by a Nobel Laureate and a theoretical physicist. “The advancing technology and scientific skills at the turn of the century enabled those scientist explorers to, in a sense, visit for the first time the domain of a remarkable and new alien civilization, the world of the atom.... It was as if the radical artists, composers, and writers of the age were scripting the laws of nature.”
“I believe that spirituality and science are different but complementary investigative approaches with the same greater goal, of seeking the truth... Through a dialogue between the two disciplines, I hope both science and spirituality may develop to be of better service to the needs and well-being of humanity.”
“Before the Big Bang explains some of the most puzzling aspects of recent cosmological discoveries. It includes a discussion of the origins of the universe, and the author’s firsthand exchanges with Einstein, Feynman, Niels Bohr and other scientific greats.”
“What does a physicist have to say to a poet? First and foremost, that scientists (or at least the best of them) practice their craft because they think it is fun. And what makes it fun can be summarized in one word: wonder.”
Written for the curious non-scientist.
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