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After a tsunami destroyed the cooling system at Japan's Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, triggering a meltdown, protesters around the world challenged the use of nuclear power. Germany announced it would close its plants by 2022. Although the ills of fossil fuels are better understood than ever,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weart, Spencer R., 1942-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Temas:
Nuclear energy > History.
Nuclear energy > Psychological aspects.
Antinuclear movement > History.
Radiation > Public opinion > History.
Énergie nucléaire > Histoire.
Énergie nucléaire > Aspect psychologique.
Mouvement antinucléaire > Histoire.
Rayonnement > Opinion publique > Histoire.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Power Resources > Nuclear.
HISTORY > Modern > 20th Century.
Antinuclear movement
Nuclear energy
Nuclear energy > Psychological aspects
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Radioactive hopes
  • Radioactive fears
  • Radium : elixir or poison?
  • The secret, the master, and the monster
  • The destroyer of worlds
  • The news from Hiroshima
  • National defenses
  • Atoms for peace
  • Good and bad atoms
  • The new blasphemy
  • Death dust
  • The imagination of survival
  • The politics of survival
  • Seeking shelter
  • Fail/safe
  • Reactor promises and poisons
  • The debate explodes
  • Energy choices
  • Civilization or liberation?
  • Watersheds
  • The second nuclear age
  • Deconstructing nuclear weapons
  • Tyrants and terrorists
  • The modern arcanum
  • Artistic transmutations.

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