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  • City Behind Fence

    Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1942-1946

    Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was created by the U.S. government during World War II to aid in the construction of the first atomic bomb. Drawing on oral history and previously classified material, this book portrays the patterns of daily life in this unique setting. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Nuclear Madness: What You Can Do

    "As a physician, I contend that nuclear technology threatens life on our planet with extinction. If present trends continue, the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink will soon be contaminated with enough radioactive pollutants to pose a potential health hazard far greater than any plague humanity has ever experienced."--Helen CaldicottFirst published in 1978, Helen Caldicott's ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Eco-Nationalism

    Anti-Nuclear Activism and National Identity in Russia, Lithuania, and Ukraine

    Eco-nationalism examines the spectacular rise of the anti-nuclear power movement in the former Soviet Union during the early perestroika period, its unexpected successes in the late 1980s, and its substantial decline after 1991. Jane I. Dawson argues that anti-nuclear activism, one of the most dynamic social forces to emerge during these years, was primarily a surrogate for an ever-present ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Air Bubble Entrainment in Free-Surface Turbulent Shear Flows

    This book develops an analysis of the air entrainment processes in free-surface flows. These flows are investigated as homogeneous mixtures with variable density. Several types of air-water free-surface flows are studied: plunging jet flows, open channel flows, and turbulent water jets discharging into air. Experimental observations reported by the author confirm the concept that the air-water ... Read more

    $319.99 USD

  • Nuclear Power and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons

    In the wake of Californias energy crisis, policymakers rush to satisfy growing demand requirements may run the risk of naively ignoring the larger issues and dangers associated with increased reliance on nuclear power. A connection between national nuclear power programs and nuclear proliferation can be found in the strategic initiatives of North Korea, Iraq, Iran, India, and Pakistan. In response ... Read more

    $27.95 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

  • 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

  • Power Generation Technologies

    by Paul Breeze ...
    This book makes intelligible the wide range of electricity generating technologies available today, as well as some closely allied technologies such as energy storage. The book opens by setting the many power generation technologies in the context of global energy consumption, the development of the electricity generation industry and the economics involved in this sector. A series of chapters are ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Nuclear Safety

    Nuclear Safety provides the methods and data needed to evaluate and manage the safety of nuclear facilities and related processes using risk-based safety analysis, and provides readers with the techniques to assess the consequences of radioactive releases.The book covers relevant international and regional safety criteria (US, IAEA, EUR, PUN, URD, INI). The contents deal with each of the critical ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Sustainable Nuclear Power

    Sustainable Nuclear Power provides non-nuclear engineers, scientists and energy planners with the necessary information to understand and utilize the major advances in the field. The book demonstrates that nuclear fission technology has the abundance and attainability to provide centuries of safe power with minimal greenhouse gas generation. It also addresses the safety and disposal issues that ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer

    The renowned antinuclear activist delivers a “frighteningly convincing argument” against nuclear energy as a solution to climate change (Publishers Weekly).In a world torn apart by wars over oil, politicians have stepped up their search for alternative energy sources—and their leading choice is nuclear energy. But nuclear energy’s popularity as a green alternative is based on misinformation. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Quarterly Essay 27 Reaction Time

    Climate Change and the Nuclear Option

    by Ian Lowe ...
    Series Book 27 - Quarterly Essay
    Australia is at a crossroads: if we are to halt global warming, do we need to stride resolutely into a nuclear future?In this engrossing and persuasive essay, Ian Lowe discusses his one-time belief in the benefits of nuclear power and explains why that belief has faltered. He engages with the leading environmentalists, like James Lovelock, who advocate going nuclear, as well as with the less ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Neutron Fluctuations

    A Treatise on the Physics of Branching Processes

    The transport of neutrons in a multiplying system is an area of branching processes with a clear formalism. Neutron Fluctuations presents an account of the mathematical tools used in describing branching processes, which are then used to derive a large number of properties of the neutron distribution in multiplying systems with or without an external source.In the second part of the book, the ... Read more

    $202.99 USD

  • Perspectives de l'énergie nucléaire 2008

    by Collectif ...
    Alors que la demande mondiale d’énergie continue à croître inexorablement, maints pays se trouvent confrontés à de sérieux défis en ce qui concerne la sécurité de leurs approvisionnements en énergie, l’envolée des prix de l’énergie et le changement climatique qui résulte de la consommation des énergies fossiles. De plus en plus, l’énergie nucléaire est considérée comme ayant un rôle à jouer dans ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Stability and Buffering Capacity of the Geosphere for Long-term Isolation of Radioactive Waste

    Application to Crystalline Rock

    by Collective ...
    Geological settings selected as potential host formations for the deep geological disposal of radioactive waste are chosen for, among other assets, their long-term stability and buffering capacity against destabilising events and processes. These proceedings present the outcomes of a geosphere stability workshop, held in November 2007, that focused on crystalline and other types of hard, fractured ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Natural Tracer Profiles Across Argillaceous Formations

    The CLAYTRAC Project

    by Collective ...
    This technical report describes the results of the Nuclear Energy Agency's CLAYTRAC project, in which natural tracer data from nine sites was evaluated to assess potential impacts of disposal of radiological waste in geological repositories. It shows scientific information from numerous sites and applies robust analytical methods to improve the understanding of radionuclide migration and evolution ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • 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

  • Strategic and Policy Issues Raised by the Transition from Thermal to Fast Nuclear Systems

    by Collective ...
    The renewed interest in nuclear energy triggered by concerns about global climate change and security of supply could lead to substantial growth in nuclear electricity generation and expanded interest in fast neutron reactors with closed fuel cycles. Moving from the current fleet of thermal neutron reactors to fast neutron systems will require many decades and extensive RD&D efforts. This book ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Considering Timescales in the Post-closure Safety of Geological Disposal of Radioactive Waste

    by Collective ...
    A key challenge in the development of safety cases for the deep geological disposal of radioactive waste is handling the long time frame over which the radioactive waste remains hazardous. The intrinsic hazard of the waste decreases with time, but some hazard remains for extremely long periods. This report reviews the current status and ongoing discussions of this issue, addressing such issues as ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Nuclear Principles in Engineering

    Nuclear engineering plays an important role in various industrial, health care, and energy processes. Modern physics has generated its fundamental principles. A growing number of students and practicing engineers need updated material to access the technical language and content of nuclear principles."Nuclear Principles in Engineering, Second Edition" is written for students, engineers, physicians ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Questions stratégiques et politiques liées à la transition des systèmes nucléaires thermiques aux systèmes rapides

    by Collectif ...
    Le renouveau d'intérêt pour l'énergie nucléaire résultant des préoccupations causées par le changement climatique global et la sécurité d'approvisionnement, qui est susceptible d'entraîner une croissance notable de la production d'électricité nucléaire, rend plus attractifs les réacteurs à neutrons rapides fonctionnant en cycle fermé. La transition entre le parc actuel de réacteurs à neutrons ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • In Mortal Hands

    A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age

    This landmark history of nuclear power is perfectly timed for today, when Americans are gravely concerned with nuclear terrorism, and a nuclear renaissance is seen as a possible solution to global warming. Few have truly come to terms with the complexities of an issue which may determine the future of the planet. Nuclear weapons, it was once hoped, would bring wars to a close; instead, they ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Nuclear Corrosion Modeling

    The Nature of CRUD

    by Roy Castelli ...
    Corrosion in nuclear power plants cause reductions in efficiency and increases in deposit build-up on plant surfaces, making for expensive maintentance and potential radiological health hazards. This book guides studies to predict and minimize corrosion, thus making nuclear power safer and more cost effective. Too often, reliance on empirical models and on-site testing of existing plants makes ... Read more

    $206.99 USD