Author: Energy Resources Center, University of Illinois at ChicagoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Nuclear Power in the Midwest
Author: Energy Resources Center, University of Illinois at ChicagoPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Nuclear Power in the Midwest
Author: Nuclear Power in the Midwest
Author: Nuclear Power in the Midwest
Author: University of Illinois. Energy Resources CenterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Keeping the Lights on at America's Nuclear Power Plants
Author: Jeremy CarlPublisher: Hoover Press
ISBN: 081792096X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 149
Book Description
In Keeping the Lights On at America's Nuclear Power Plants, Jeremy Carl and David Fedor discuss the decline of American nuclear power in light of major economic, technological and political challenges. They show how high costs, low public support, and popular clean energy trends threaten America's near- and long-term nuclear viability. American nuclear power plants are closing at a historically unprecedented pace, and there's little evidence of public or political will to stop the bleeding. Recognizing the nuclear industry's flaws, the authors argue that nuclear energy is widely misunderstood. They discuss the nuclear industry's failure to capture the public's attention and imagination, and survey the new national conversation about America's renewable energy future -- a conversation that does not include nuclear. For all these challenges, the authors argue that permanently opting out of the nuclear enterprise would be a mistake. Making the case for continued nuclear investment, they show how "keeping the lights on" at America's nuclear plants can bolster American technology leadership, security, and commitment to curbing carbon emissions. They offer a menu of policy options designed to spur meaningful action at state and federal levels, to change the industry's status quo, and to reintroduce nuclear to America's energy conversation.
Red Hill
Author: Benson Wood JacksonPublisher: Blue Door Publishing
ISBN: 9781087978130
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Red Hill is a sleepy midwestern town that people are happy to call home and raise a family. The citizens here happily go about their lives until a cyberterrorist hacks into their nuclear power plant and threatens to cause a meltdown. As elected politicians, the police, and the army fail to protect the local citizens, it's up to them to flee, but will they make it out before their town becomes a smoldering wasteland? Will they work together or against each other as disaster looms? Disasters can bring out the best in people or the worst. A homicidal man with political ambitions, a small shopkeeper and some local roughnecks are all a part of the mix in Red Hill.
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.
We Almost Lost Detroit
Author: John Grant FullerPublisher: Crowell
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
"We Almost Lost Detroit" is a valuable addition to the literature of the debate swirling around nuclear power. The Book is well researched; it provides fascinating reading for anyone who is interested in the history of the nuclear program. The author ... [uses] the Fermi accident as a vehicle to discuss the significance of the entire nuclear power industry, both in this country and abroad. In the course of this absorbing story, the causes and consequences of a number of nuclear accidents are described in a manner that is easily understood.
The Technological and Economic Future of Nuclear Power
Author: Reinhard HaasPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3658259876
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
This open access book discusses the eroding economics of nuclear power for electricity generation as well as technical, legal, and political acceptance issues. The use of nuclear power for electricity generation is still a heavily disputed issue. Aside from technical risks, safety issues, and the unsolved problem of nuclear waste disposal, the economic performance is currently a major barrier. In recent years, the costs have skyrocketed especially in the European countries and North America. At the same time, the costs of alternatives such as photovoltaics and wind power have significantly decreased.
Energy Research and Development Administration public meeting
Author: United States. Energy Research and Development AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description