THE NUCLEAR ENERGY OPTION


Professor Emeritus Bernard L. CohenUniversity of Pittsburgh

Published by Plenum Press, 1990


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Chapter   

Title

1.Nuclear Power — Act II
2.Do we need more power plants?
3.Environmental problems with coal, oil, and gas
4.Is the public ready for more nuclear power?
5.How dangerous is radiation?
6.The fearsome reactor meltdown accident
7.The Chernobyl accident — can it happen here?
8.Understanding risk
9.Costs of nuclear power plants — what went wrong?
10.The next generation of nuclear power plants
11.Hazards of high-level radioactive waste — the great myth
12.More on radioactive waste
13.Plutonium and bombs
14.The solar dream
15.Questions and answers
16.Recapitulation
17.Appendix: Chapter References

Forward:

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