Author: Publisher:
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Category : Nuclear power plants
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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AB 1632 Assessment of California's Operating Nuclear Plants
Author: AB 1632 Assessment of California's Operating Nuclear Plants
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear power plants
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Review of the Nuclear Emergency in Japan and Implications for the United States
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works. Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear SafetyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Nuclear Roulette
Author: Gar SmithPublisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN: 160358434X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Nuclear power is not clean, cheap, or safe. With Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima, the nuclear industry's record of catastrophic failures now averages one major disaster every decade. After three US-designed plants exploded in Japan, many countries moved to abandon reactors for renewables. In the United States, however, powerful corporations and a compliant government still defend nuclear power-while promising billion-dollar bailouts to operators. Each new disaster demonstrates that the nuclear industry and governments lie to "avoid panic," to preserve the myth of "safe, clean" nuclear power, and to sustain government subsidies. Tokyo and Washington both covered up Fukushima's radiation risks and-when confronted with damning evidence-simply raised the levels of "acceptable" risk to match the greater levels of exposure. Nuclear Roulette dismantles the core arguments behind the nuclear-industrial complex's "Nuclear Renaissance." While some critiques are familiar-nuclear power is too costly, too dangerous, and too unstable-others are surprising: Nuclear Roulette exposes historic links to nuclear weapons, impacts on Indigenous lands and lives, and the ways in which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission too often takes its lead from industry, rewriting rules to keep failing plants in compliance. Nuclear Roulette cites NRC records showing how corporations routinely defer maintenance and lists resulting "near-misses" in the US, which average more than one per month. Nuclear Roulette chronicles the problems of aging reactors, uncovers the costly challenge of decommissioning, explores the industry's greatest seismic risks-not on California's quake-prone coast but in the Midwest and Southeast-and explains how solar flares could black out power grids, causing the world's 400-plus reactors to self-destruct. This powerful exposé concludes with a roundup of proven and potential energy solutions that can replace nuclear technology with a "Renewable Renaissance," combined with conservation programs that can cleanse the air, and cool the planet.
An Assessment of California's Nuclear Power Plants
Author: An Assessment of California's Nuclear Power Plants
Author: Integrated Energy Policy Report ... Update
Author: California Energy Commission. Integrated Energy Policy Report CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Energy conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Nuclear Power in California
Author: Critical Masses
Author: Thomas Raymond WellockPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 9780299158545
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The grassroots battle against nuclear power, told by a historian who did time on both sides of the issue. CRITICAL MASSES tells how the citizens of California--from the tiny town of Wasco in the Central Valley to the vast suburbs of Los Angeles--challenged the threat of nuclear power, transformed the anti-nuclear movement, and helped change the face of U.S. politics. 21 photos.
Journal of the Assembly, Legislature of the State of California
Author: California. Legislature. AssemblyPublisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 1500
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