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xviii, 221 p. ; 21 cm. |
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"Never one to mince words, renowned physician and activist Caldicott presents exhaustive evidence to refute the now-resurgent claim that nuclear power is the solution to global warming. Eschewing hyperbole and speculation, Caldicott diligently presents the facts about the grave problems attendant on nuclear power. For starters, enormous amounts of fossil fuel are burned during the nuclear-energy process, and nuclear reactors use and pollute vast amounts of water. Radioactive emissions do escape and are released from nuclear facilities, and man-made radioactive elements regularly enter the food chain and our bodies to deleterious effect. Nuclear-power plants are vulnerable to natural disasters and to terrorists; all nuclear plants generate plutonium, seeding the proliferation of nuclear weapons; and we have yet to discover a safe place or method for storing waste that remains deadly for millennia. Add to that the scandalously corrupt and hypocritical economics and politics of nuclear power."--Booklist. |
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Originally published: 2006. New preface: 2011. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Subject |
Nuclear industry -- United States.
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Nuclear energy -- United States.
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Global warming -- Prevention.
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Nuclear power plants -- United States.
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Energy policy -- United States.
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| ISBN |
9781595582133 (pbk.) |
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1595582134 (pbk.) |
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