Ebook: The Nuclear Environmentalist: Is There a Green Road to Nuclear Energy?
Author: Juan José Gomez Cadenas (auth.)
- Tags: Renewable and Green Energy, Renewable and Green Energy, Nuclear Energy, Particle and Nuclear Physics, Popular Science in Mathematics/Computer Science/Natural Science/Technology
- Year: 2012
- Publisher: Springer-Verlag Mailand
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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This book explains how society will face an energy crisis in the coming decades owing to increasing scarcity of fossil fuels and climate change impacts. It carefully explores this coming crisis and concisely examines all of the major technologies related to energy production (fossil fuels, renewables, and nuclear) and their impacts on our society and environment. The author argues that it is wrong to pit alternatives to fossil fuels against each other and proposes that nuclear energy, although by no means free of problems, can be a viable source of reliable and carbon-free electricity. He concludes by calling for a diversified and rational mix of electricity generation in order to mitigate the effects of the energy crisis. Throughout, the book is spiced with science, history, and anecdotes in a way that ensures rewarding reading without loss of rigor.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
All that Glitters is not Green....Pages 1-10
Eternal Delight....Pages 11-16
A Wasted Inheritance....Pages 17-22
The Ignoble Fuel....Pages 23-32
Manna Springing from the Earth....Pages 33-46
The Sacred Fire....Pages 47-51
On Board the Nautilus....Pages 53-62
The Bequest of a Supernova....Pages 63-83
Nuclear Reactors....Pages 85-102
Nuclear Power, No Thanks?....Pages 103-124
The Anti Nuclear Litany....Pages 125-134
Helios and Aeolus....Pages 135-152
At the Crossroads....Pages 153-160
Fukushima, or the Black Swan of Nuclear Energy....Pages 161-165
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
All that Glitters is not Green....Pages 1-10
Eternal Delight....Pages 11-16
A Wasted Inheritance....Pages 17-22
The Ignoble Fuel....Pages 23-32
Manna Springing from the Earth....Pages 33-46
The Sacred Fire....Pages 47-51
On Board the Nautilus....Pages 53-62
The Bequest of a Supernova....Pages 63-83
Nuclear Reactors....Pages 85-102
Nuclear Power, No Thanks?....Pages 103-124
The Anti Nuclear Litany....Pages 125-134
Helios and Aeolus....Pages 135-152
At the Crossroads....Pages 153-160
Fukushima, or the Black Swan of Nuclear Energy....Pages 161-165
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