LEADER 00000cam a2200733Ki 4500 001 ocn865508421 003 OCoLC 005 20190111051324.7 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 131217s2014 enk ob 001 0 eng d 019 865656137|a883408407|a963345256 020 9780199344581|q(electronic book) 020 0199344582|q(electronic book) 020 1306197449 020 9781306197441 020 |z9780199344574 020 |z0199344574 035 (OCoLC)865508421|z(OCoLC)865656137|z(OCoLC)883408407 |z(OCoLC)963345256 037 550995|bMIL 040 N$T|beng|erda|epn|cN$T|dYDXCP|dCDX|dOCLCO|dOCLCF|dCUT |dOCLCQ|dD6H|dIDEBK|dEBLCP|dCOO|dUBY|dMERUC|dOCLCQ|dOCLCA |dOCLCQ|dCEF|dOCLCQ|dOTZ|dMOR|dYDX|dESU|dUUM|dLVT 049 RIDW 050 4 TK9153|b.F69 2014eb 072 7 BUS|x054000|2bisacsh 082 04 333.792/4|223 084 SCI024000|2bisacsh 090 TK9153|b.F69 2014eb 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 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 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 power|z9780199344574|w(DLC) 2013044313|w(OCoLC)861207474 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=675361|zOnline eBook via EBSCO. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff. 856 42 |3Instructions for reading/downloading the EBSCO version of this eBook|uhttp://guides.rider.edu/ebooks/ebsco 901 MARCIVE 20231220 948 |d20190118|cEBSCO|tEBSCOebooksacademic NEW 1-11-19 6702 |lridw 994 92|bRID