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Why we need nuclear power : the environmental case /
"Makes a case for nuclear energy as a clean-energy solution."--
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press, USA,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- The 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
- Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Other Pollutants
- Mining and Health Hazards
- How Much Is There?
- 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
- Greenhouse Gas Emission
- Location and Footprint
- Cost
- Subsidies for Nuclear and Renewables
- Advanced Reactor Technology
- Can Nuclear Replace Coal?
- Arguments against Nuclear Power
- 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
- 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?
- Summary
- 8. What Comes Naturally and Not So Naturally
- Natural Background Radiation
- Cosmic Radiation
- Primordial Terrestrial Radiation
- Medical Exposure
- How Dangerous Is Background Radiation?
- 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"
- Summary
- 10. About Those Accidents
- The Scare, March 16, 1979
- Three Mile Island, March 28, 1979
- How the Accident Happened
- 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
- 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
- Earth's Energy Balance
- Radiative Forcing
- The IPCC Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES)
- Energy
- Power
- Powers of 10
- Radioactivity.