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Author : Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain)
Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781849731942
Reviews the political and social context for nuclear power generation, the nuclear fuel cycles and their implications for the environment.
Author : Manu V. Mathai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136229909
Nuclear power is often characterized as a "green technology." Technologies are rarely, if ever, socially isolated artefacts. Instead, they materially represent an embodiment of values and priorities. Nuclear power is no different. It is a product of a particular political economy and the question is whether that political economy can helpfully engage with the challenge of addressing the environmental crisis on a finite, inequitable and shared planet. For developing countries like India, who are presently making infrastructure investments which will have long legacies, it is imperative that these investments wrestle with such questions and prove themselves capable of sufficiency, greater equality and inclusiveness. This book offers a critique of civilian nuclear power as a green energy strategy for India and develops and proposes an alternative "synergy for sustainability." It situates nuclear power as a socio-technical infrastructure embodying a particular development discourse and practice of energy and economic development. The book reveals the political economy of this arrangement and examines the latter’s ability to respond to the environmental crisis. Manu V. Mathai argues that the existing overwhelmingly growth-focused, highly technology-centric approach for organizing economic activity is unsustainable and needs to be reformed. Within this imperative for change, nuclear power in India is found to be and is characterized as an "authoritarian technology." Based on this political economy critique the book proposes an alternative, a synergy of ideas from the fields of development economics, energy planning and science, technology and society studies.
Author : Pacific Northwest River Basins Commission. Power Planning Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN : UIUC:30112071886755
Author : Joseph M Dukert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Nuclear power plants
ISBN : UCSD:31822021661731
Author : R. J. Pentreath
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000000689
Originally published in 1980. A clear understanding of how radioactivity moves through the environment is essential to discussions on nuclear power. This book describes, in didactic rather than polemic style, the nature of radioactivity, how it arises in the day-to-day running of nuclear reactors, how and why a small fraction is introduced into the environment in a controlled manner, and on what basis judgements on these processes should be made.
Author : Brice Smith
Publisher : RDR Books
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : 1571431624
The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change.How much will nuclear energy cost relative to other means of getting rid of carbon dioxide emissions? What will be the risks of catastrophic accidents if we build reactors at the rate of one a week or more, cookie-cutter style, around the world? What about the risks of proliferation and terrorist attacks and nuclear waste? This is THE book providing a meticulously researched analysis of the risks of using nuclear energy to combat global warming. Were there no alternative, the severity of the threat facing humankind and other species from global climate change might warrant serious consideration of the risks of nuclear energy. But as Insurmountable Risks convincingly shows, there are far safer economical alternatives. A perfect factia; companion to the nuclear power debate at the heart of the 2008 Presidential campaign.
Author : Geoffrey G. Eichholz
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015003388843
Author : Behram N. Kursunogammalu,Stephan L. Mintz,Arnold Perlmutter
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781489915467
Developed from the Global Foundation's International Conference on Environment and Nuclear Energy, held in October 1997, this volume examines the impact of nuclear energy on regional and global environmental issues under a variety of scenarios. These include competition in deregulated energy environments, constraints levied upon use of fossil energy, and possible expansion of nuclear power into energy sectors beyond the generation of electricity, process heat, and fuels production. It also assesses the overall role of nuclear energy in meeting future energy needs arising from growing world populations and economic development.
Author : R. A. Karam,Karl Z. Morgan
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 556 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483150710
Environmental Impact of Nuclear Power Plants contains the proceedings of a conference held in Atlanta, Georgia, on November 26-30, 1974 and sponsored by the Georgia Institute of Technology's School of Nuclear Engineering. The papers focus on the environmental impact of nuclear power plants and are organized into six parts: plant site selection; ecosystems and ecological effects; radioactive waste and thermal pollution; standards and guidelines in the preparation of environmental reports; cost-benefit analysis; environmental impact studies of various power sources. Comprised of 23 chapters, this book begins with an assessment of siting considerations for nuclear power plants from a government perspective. The instrument used by Florida Power & Light in evaluating a power plant site is described, along with an ecosystem approach to atomic energy development. The discussion then turns to impact assessment for nuclear power plants and its implications for ecological and environmental sciences; radioactive waste systems and radioactive effluents; engineering aspects of heat dissipation in water bodies; and transportation of nuclear materials. Subsequent chapters deal with recommendations, standards, and regulations concerning the preparation of environmental reports for nuclear power plants; cost-benefit analysis in nuclear power plant licensing actions; and radioactive waste discharges at nuclear power plants. This monograph will be of interest to nuclear engineers and environmental policymakers.
Author : Peter E Hodgson
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781908978356
This book is a comprehensive account of all significant energy sources, evaluated according to their capacity, reliability, cost, safety and effects on the environment. Non-renewable sources (for example, coal, oil, gas and nuclear fuel) together with renewable sources like wood, hydro, biomass, wind, solar, geothermal, ocean thermal, and tidal; are considered. Also, nuclear radiations and the disposal of nuclear waste and the future of nuclear power are assessed, as well as pollution and acid rain, the greenhouse effects and climate change. Its social, political and moral problems are discussed, with a special mention of the opposition to nuclear power. Contents:The Energy CrisisNon-Renewable Energy SourcesRenewable Energy SourcesNuclear PowerThe Safety of Energy SourcesPollution of the EnvironmentClimate ChangePolitics, Psychology and EducationThe Needs of the Developing CountriesMoral Problems and Responses Readership: Graduate students, academics, practitioners and general public interested in the field of energy research, pollution, meteorology and waste management. Keywords:Energy;Nuclear;Nuclear Waste;Environment;Wind Power;Solar Power;Climate Change;Pollution;Global WarmingKey Features:Numerical estimates of the relevant factors are given whenever possible, enabling realistic comparisons to be madeThe evidence for the threshold nuclear radiation dose is carefully analysedA detailed discussion of continuous and catastrophic climate change and what actions can be taken to avert the worst dangersA comparison of the statements of several Churches on the moral problems raised by energy-associated problemEvaluation of the effects on the developing nationsReviews: “… the book contains many interesting facts, thoughts, and counterarguments to nuclear naysayers.” CHOICE
Author : Michael H. Fox
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199344574
"Makes a case for nuclear energy as a clean-energy solution."--
Author : Essam E. El-Hinnawi
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781483189192
Nuclear Energy and the Environment provides an assessment, based on the opinions and findings of international experts in the field of atomic energy, of the environmental impact of the different stages of the nuclear fuel cycle. Chapters in the book cover different subjects in the use of nuclear energy such as the environmental impacts of energy production and use; the environmental impact of mining and milling of radioactive ores, upgrading processes, and the fabrication of nuclear fuels; none radiological environmental implications of nuclear energy; and the technology and environmental hazards of nuclear waste disposal. Nuclear scientists, environmentalists, ecologists, nuclear engineers, and policy makers will find the book interesting.
Author : Peter E Hodgson
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999-03-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781783262434
We need energy to warm and light our homes, to power our transport and communications, and to support our manufacturing industries. Can we obtain enough energy to satisfy the needs of a rapidly increasing world population without, at the same time, devastating the earth? Is nuclear power the way to do this? This book surveys available energy sources and their effects on the environment in the context of moral imperatives and political realities. Contents:The Energy CrisisThe Renewable Energy SourcesNuclear PowerThe Safety of Nuclear ReactorsChoosing the Best Energy SourcesEffects on the EnvironmentEnergy ScenariosPolitical Aspects of the Energy CrisisMoral Aspects of the Energy Crisis Readership: Students attending courses on the environment, politicians and general readers. Keywords:Energy Studies;Nuclear Power;Environmental ManagementReviews:“… this book is well worthwhile reading. Many of the points made are very real and need debating.”Euro Japanese Journal
Author : Abdullah Al Faruque
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351240048
Analyzing the impact and benefits of nuclear energy on environment, this book examines nuclear treaties in relation to environmental protection, highlights legal framework on non-proliferation and denuclearization, explores treaties on nuclear safety and nuclear security, discusses legal regimes on management of nuclear wastes, assesses the third-party liability regime and discusses the role of IAEA, EURATOM and NEA in regulating nuclear energy. It explores nuclear energy in the context of climate change and sustainable development. This book also examines the international legal framework on notification, assistance and emergency preparedness in the event of nuclear accidents, considers legal aspects of decommissioning of nuclear power plants and main legislative trends on nuclear energy use in selected countries. It also addresses regulatory responses to nuclear energy in the wake of the Fukushima power plant nuclear accident in Japan.
Author : International Atomic Energy Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Nuclear agency
ISBN : 9201070160
Transforming the energy system is at the core of the dedicated sustainable development goal on energy within the new United Nations development agenda. This publication explores the possible contribution of nuclear energy to addressing the issues of sustainable development through a large selection of indicators. It reviews the characteristics of nuclear power in comparison with alternative sources of electricity supply, according to economic, social and environmental pillars of sustainability. The findings summarized in this publication will help the reader to consider, or reconsider, the contribution that can be made by the development and operation of nuclear power plants in contributing to more sustainable energy systems.