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100 1  Fox, Michael H.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
       n2013065371 
245 10 Why we need nuclear power :|bthe environmental case /
       |cMichael H. Fox. 
264  1 Oxford ;|aNew York :|bOxford University Press, USA,|c2014.
300    1 online resource 
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504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 8  Machine generated contents note: -- 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. 
505 8  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. 
505 8  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. 
505 8  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. 
505 8  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. 
520    "Makes a case for nuclear energy as a clean-energy 
       solution."--|cProvided by publisher. 
588 0  Print version record. 
590    eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic 
       Collection - North America 
650  0 Nuclear energy|xEnvironmental aspects.|0https://id.loc.gov
       /authorities/subjects/sh2010103932 
650  0 Global warming|xPrevention.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh2009125944 
650  0 Nuclear industry|xSafety measures.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh2010103966 
650  0 Nuclear industry|xAccidents.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh2008000656 
650  0 Radioactive waste disposal.|0https://id.loc.gov/
       authorities/subjects/sh85110649 
650  7 Nuclear energy|xEnvironmental aspects.|2fast|0https://
       id.worldcat.org/fast/1039963 
650  7 Global warming|xPrevention.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org
       /fast/943524 
650  7 Nuclear industry|xSafety measures.|2fast|0https://
       id.worldcat.org/fast/1040308 
650  7 Nuclear industry|xAccidents.|2fast|0https://
       id.worldcat.org/fast/1040251 
650  7 Radioactive waste disposal.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org
       /fast/1087820 
655  4 Electronic books. 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aFox, Michael H.|tWhy we need nuclear 
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