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  • Nuclear Power: A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    With the World desperate to find energy sources that do not emit carbon gasses, nuclear power is back on the agenda and in the news, following the increasing cost of fossil fuels and concerns about the security of their future supply. However, the term 'nuclear power' causes anxiety in many people and there is confusion concerning the nature and extent of the associated risks. Here, Maxwell Irvine ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Countdown

    The Blinding Future of Nuclear Weapons

    by Sarah Scoles ...
    For fans of Oppenheimer, a riveting investigation into the modern nuclear weapons landscape.Nuclear weapons are, today, as important as they were during the Cold War, and some experts say we could be as close to a nuclear catastrophe now as we were at the height of that conflict. Despite that, conversations about these bombs generally often happen in past tense.In Countdown, science journalist ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Rise of Nuclear Fear

    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, the threat of climate change has never aroused the same visceral dread or swift action. Spencer Weart ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Chernobyl

    The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe

    by Serhii Plokhy ...
    A Chernobyl survivor and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe "mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system" in this "vividly empathetic" account of the worst nuclear accident in history (Wall Street Journal).On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Power to Save the World

    The Truth About Nuclear Energy

    An informed look at the myths and fears surrounding nuclear energy, and a practical, politically realistic solution to global warming and our energy needs. Faced by the world's oil shortages and curious about alternative energy sources, Gwyneth Cravens skeptically sets out to find the truth about nuclear energy. Her conclusion: it is a totally viable and practical solution to global warming. In ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Radioactive Boy Scout

    The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor

    Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinated by science, and his basement experiments—building homemade fireworks, brewing moonshine, and concocting his own self-tanning lotion—were more ambitious than those of other boys. While working on his Atomic Energy badge for the Boy Scouts, David’s obsessive attention turned to nuclear energy. Throwing caution to the wind, he plunged into a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Idaho Falls

    The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident

    The little-known true story of a mysterious nuclear reactor disaster—years before Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, or Fukushima.Before the Three Mile Island incident or the Chernobyl disaster, the world’s first nuclear reactor meltdown to claim lives happened on US soil. Chronicled here for the first time is the strange tale of SL-1, an experimental military reactor located in Idaho’s Lost River ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stalking the Atomic City

    Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl

    “His is a voice that must be heard.” —Patti Smith“A poetic rush to madness. . . a stunning, original voice as lyrical as it is unnerving."—Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us and Countdown"In the shadow of catastrophe, Markiyan Kamysh writes with all of youth’s wayward lyricism, like a nuclear Kerouac." —Rob Doyle, author of ThresholdA rare portrait... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Nuclear Law

    The Global Debate

    This open access book traces the journey of nuclear law: its origins, how it has developed, where it is now, and where it is headed. As a discipline, this highly specialized body of law makes it possible for us to benefit from the life-saving applications of nuclear science and technology, including diagnosing cancer as well as avoiding and mitigating the effects of climate change. This book seeks ... Read more

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  • Nuclear Energy

    What Everyone Needs to Know?

    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know?
    Originally perceived as a cheap and plentiful source of power, the commercial use of nuclear energy has been controversial for decades. Worries about the dangers that nuclear plants and their radioactive waste posed to nearby communities grew over time, and plant construction in the United States virtually died after the early 1980s. The 1986 disaster at Chernobyl only reinforced nuclear power's ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Summary of Atomic Accidents

    by James Mahaffey | Includes Analysis

    PLEASE NOTE: This is a summary of the book and NOT the original book.Summary of Atomic Accidents by James Mahaffey | Includes AnalysisInside this Instaread Summary:• Overview of the entire book• Introduction to the important people in the book• Summary and analysis of all the chapters in the book• Key Takeaways of the book• A Reader's PerspectivePreview of this summary... ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Power Hungry

    The Myths of ""Green"" Energy and the Real Fuels of the Future

    by Robert Bryce ...
    The promise of "green jobs" and a "clean energy future" has roused the masses. But as Robert Bryce makes clear in this provocative book, that vision needs a major re-vision. We cannot -- and will not -- quit using carbon-based fuels at any time in the near future for a simple reason: they provide the horsepower that we crave. The hard reality is that oil, coal, and natural gas are here to stay ... Read more

    $12.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • A Comprehensive Overview of General Fusion

    An insight into the fusion lab that can transform how we power our planet

    Our world is facing an energy crisis like no other as the global population continues to grow at an unprecedented rate and nonrenewable energy production is becoming more and more unsustainable. Consequently, the need to generate clean, sustainable, renewable energy is more crucial than ever before — something that can be achieved with the development of commercially and economically viable ... Read more

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  • Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters

    by Serhii Plokhy ...
    A chilling account of more than half a century of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the “definitive” (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly.Almost 145,000 Americans fled their homes in and around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in late March 1979, hoping to save themselves from an invisible enemy: radiation. The reactor at the nearby Three Mile Island nuclear power plant had gone into partial ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Particle Physics Reference Library

    Volume 2: Detectors for Particles and Radiation

    This second open access volume of the handbook series deals with detectors, large experimental facilities and data handling, both for accelerator and non-accelerator based experiments. It also covers applications in medicine and life sciences.A joint CERN-Springer initiative, the “Particle Physics Reference Library” provides revised and updated contributions based on previously published material ... Read more

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  • Experimental Techniques in Nuclear and Particle Physics

    I have been teaching courses on experimental techniques in nuclear and particle physics to master students in physics and in engineering for many years. This book grew out of the lecture notes I made for these students. The physics and engineering students have rather different expectations of what such a course should be like. I hope that I have nevertheless managed to write a book that can ... Read more

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  • Seeing the Light: The Case for Nuclear Power in the 21st Century

    Nuclear power is not an option for the future but an absolute necessity. Global threats of climate change and lethal air pollution, killing millions each year, make it clear that nuclear and renewable energy must work together, as non-carbon sources of energy. Fortunately, a new era of growth in this energy source is underway in developing nations, though not yet in the West. Seeing the Light is ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Monte Carlo N-Particle Simulations for Nuclear Detection and Safeguards

    An Examples-Based Guide for Students and Practitioners

    This open access book is a pedagogical, examples-based guide to using the Monte Carlo N-Particle (MCNP®) code for nuclear safeguards and non-proliferation applications. The MCNP code, general-purpose software for particle transport simulations, is widely used in the field of nuclear safeguards and non-proliferation for numerous applications including detector design and calibration, and the study ... Read more

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  • Crisis Without End

    The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe

    Edited by Helen Caldicott ...
    Expert essays provide the first comprehensive analysis of the long-term health and environmental consequences of the Fukushima nuclear accident.On the second anniversary of the Fukushima disaster, an international panel of leading medical and biological scientists, nuclear engineers, and policy experts were brought together at the prestigious New York Academy of Medicine by Helen Caldicott, the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Earthquakes, Tsunamis and Nuclear Risks

    Prediction and Assessment Beyond the Fukushima Accident

    Edited by Katsuhiro Kamae ...
    This book covers seismic probabilistic risk assessment (S-PRA) and related studies which have become more important to increase the safety of nuclear facilities against earthquakes and tsunamis in the face of the many uncertainties after the Fukushima accident. The topics are (1) Active faults and active tectonics important for seismic hazard assessment of nuclear facilities,(2) Seismic source ... Read more

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  • The American Trap

    My battle to expose America's secret economic war against the rest of the world

    In 2014, France lost part of the control of its nuclear power plants to the United States. Frédéric Pierucci, former senior executive of one of Alstom's power company subsidiaries, found himself at the heart of this state scandal. His story goes to the very core of how he plotted the key features of the secret economic war that the United States is waging in Europe. And after being silenced for a ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Complete Guide to the 1961 SL-1 Fatal Nuclear Power Plant Accident: Accident and Recovery Operations Reports, Official Findings, Timeline of Events, Technical Details, Safety Implications

    Four official federal government reports provide the full details of the tragic SL-1 prototype nuclear power plant accident of January 3, 1961, the first and only immediately fatal American reactor accident. Three servicemen were killed in the incident at Idaho National Laboratory (INL).Major documents in this ebook compilation include the SL-1 Reactor Accident Interim Report, the IDO (Idaho ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nuclear Back-end and Transmutation Technology for Waste Disposal

    Beyond the Fukushima Accident

    Edited by Ken Nakajima ...
    This book covers essential aspects of transmutation technologies, highlighting especially the advances in Japan. The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) has caused us to focus attention on a large amount of spent nuclear fuels stored in NPPs. In addition, public anxiety regarding the treatment and disposal of high-level radioactive wastes that require long-term control is ... Read more

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  • Fukushima

    The Story of a Nuclear Disaster

    “A gripping, suspenseful page-turner” (Kirkus Reviews) with a “fast-paced, detailed narrative that moves like a thriller” (International Business Times), Fukushima teams two leading experts from the Union of Concerned Scientists, David Lochbaum and Edwin Lyman, with award-winning journalist Susan Q. Stranahan to give us the first definitive account of the 2011 disaster that led to the worst ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus