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The Need for Nuclear Power
[Published in 2000 in the
prestigious policy journal, Foreign Affairs, Richard Rhodes
(author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb and Dark Sun) and
Denis Beller, a nuclear engineer at Los Alamos National
Laboratory0, The Need for Nuclear Power is a thoughtful
argument that nuclear power must be a major component of
world electricity supply in the 21st century.] |
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Megawatts and Megatons
[A Nature book review of
Richard Garwin's and Georges Charpak's treatise on the
trade-offs between nuclear power and nuclear weapons.
Garwin is one of the original designers of the hydrogen bomb
and Charpak, a Nobel Laureate, is a strong advocate for
nuclear power and a vigorous opponent of weapons
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An Ancient Nuclear Reactor
[Two billion years ago, in
the region of West Africa today known as Oklo in Gabon,
water seeped into an uranium ore deposit unusually in the
radioactive isotope U-235 and slowed its naturally fast
neutron decay sufficiently to produce a fission reaction and
thus "nuclear power" and plutonium! So plutonium is,
after all, a "natural" element.] |
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David Bodansky's Talk at APS at APS #100
[Talk at the 100th
Anniversary Meeting of the American Physical Society in 1999
by the author of the most widely used textbook on nuclear
power engineering. Good source on numbers in the
nuclear power industry and issues with recycling and
disposal.] |
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David Bodansky's Paper from APS #100
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on the above talk. Although Bodansky is a prominent advocate
of nuclear power and its almost limitless resources, he
speculates whether "really cheap energy" would spark an even
larger exponential growth in population.] |
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"National
Wind Watch,"
Web Site of the Non-Profit National Wind Watch, Inc.
[Normally, I'm not a
fan of "agenda-oriented" pressure groups, but this one
presents a thorough analysis of the real downsides of
massive deployment of wind farms. We're still early in
the early stages of the "build-out" of wind farms,
terrestrial and/or oceanic, worldwide, and the "folks" are
just beginning to realize the ecological burden of this
possible industrial expansion. I write this on 2 March 2010.
Stay tuned. ] |
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