Power to Save the World: Field Notes of a Reluctant Convert to Nuclear Energy - Tapa dura

Sinopsis

"This book will make you completely rethink all your preconceptions about the risks and benefits from nuclear power."—Peter S. Heller, author of Who Will Pay? Coping with Aging Societies, Climate Change, and Other Long-Term Fiscal Challenges

We're burning fossil fuels at a frightening rate and a staggering cost. Americans are now facing the fact that nuclear power must be an important source in the twenty-first century. But many still fear it, despite the fact that nuclear energy is cleaner to produce than fossil fuel and more efficient in generating electricity than wind and solar power. Nuclear energy is already significantly mitigating production of global-warming greenhouse gases on a scale that surpasses that of any other emissions-free sources of electricity.

In Power to Save the World, Gwyneth Cravens examines both sides of the controversial debate over nuclear energy. Cravens had many concerns about nuclear power, and in this lively narrative, she seeks answers from a host of experts in radiation effects, nuclear medicine, reactor accidents, and risk analysis. Her Virgil in her tour through the nuclear world is Dr. D. Richard Anderson, an international figure in nuclear safety and environmental health. As they follow the cradle-to-grave journey of uranium—through an ore refinery, experimental facilities, nuclear plants, a spent-fuel pool, a subterranean repository—our most common assumptions are repeatedly challenged.Power to Save the World is certain to spark debate and influence policy decisions that will affect generations to come.

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