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Uranium mining
Uranium mining is the process of extraction of uranium ore from the ground. The worldwide production of uranium in 2009 amounted to 50,572 tonnes, of which 27% was mined in Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan, Canada, and Australia are the top three producers and together account for 63% of world uranium...
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Nuclear power
Nuclear power is the use of sustained nuclear fission to generate heat and electricity. Nuclear power plants provide about 6% of the world's energy and 13–14% of the world's electricity, with the U.S., France, and Japan together accounting for about 50% of nuclear generated electricity...
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- Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic ScientistsBrighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic ScientistsBrighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists , by Austrian Robert Jungk, is the first published account of the Manhattan Project and the German atomic bomb project. It studied the making and dropping of the atomic bomb from the view of the atomic scientists...
(1958) - Britain, Australia and the BombBritain, Australia and the BombBritain, Australia and the Bomb: the Nuclear Tests and Their Aftermath is a 2006 book by Lorna Arnold and Mark Smith. It is the second edition of an official history first published in 1987 by HMSO under another title: A Very Special Relationship: British Atomic Weapons Trials in Australia...
(2006) - Canada’s Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear SystemCanada's Deadly SecretCanada’s Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear System is a 2007 book by Jim Harding which chronicles the struggle over Saskatchewan’s uranium mining, and demonstrates the negative impacts on Aboriginal rights and environmental health, and the effect of free trade...
(2007) - Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free (2007)
- Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the EnvironmentChernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the EnvironmentChernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment is a translation of a 2007 Russian publication by Alexey V. Yablokov, Vassily B. Nesterenko, and Alexey V. Nesterenko...
(2009) - Chernobyl. Vengeance of peaceful atom.Chernobyl. Vengeance of peaceful atom.Chernobyl. Vengeance of peaceful atom. is a 2006 book by Nikolaii Karpan. Karpan served as deputy chief engineer of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant on reactor physics and nuclear safety at the time of Chernobyl disaster in 1986...
(2006) - Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo CanyonConservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo CanyonConservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon is a 2006 book by John Wills.Widespread public opposition accompanied the rise of the U.S. nuclear industry during the 1960s and 1970s...
(2006) - Contesting the Future of Nuclear PowerContesting the Future of Nuclear PowerContesting the Future of Nuclear Power: A Critical Global Assessment of Atomic Energy is a 2011 book by Benjamin K. Sovacool, published by World Scientific. The nuclear power industry is preparing for a nuclear renaissance, but this book states "that a global nuclear renaissance would bring immense...
(2011) - Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958-1978Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958-1978Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958-1978 is the first detailed history of the anti-nuclear movement in the United States, written by Thomas Wellock. It is also the first state-level research on the subject with a focus on California...
(1998) - Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile CrisisEssence of DecisionEssence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis is an analysis, by political scientist Graham T. Allison, of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Allison used the crisis as a case study for future studies into governmental decision-making. The book became the founding study of the John F...
(1971) - Fallout: An American Nuclear TragedyFallout: An American Nuclear TragedyFallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy is a 1989 book by Philip L. Fradkin which was republished in a second edition in 2004. The book is about the radiation exposure of people and their livestock living downwind from the nuclear weapons testing at the Nevada Test Site in the 1950s. The case of...
(2004) - Fallout ProtectionFallout ProtectionFallout Protection: What To Know And Do About Nuclear Attack, was an official United States federal government booklet released in December 1961 by the United States Department of Defense and The Office of Civil Defense....
(1961) - Hiroshima (1946)
- Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America’s Experience with Atomic Radiation (1982)
- In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age (2009)
- Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power PlantLicensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power PlantLicensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant, a 1998 book by Joan Aron, presents the first detailed case study of how an activist public and elected officials of New York state opposed the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant on Long Island...
(1997) - Los Alamos PrimerLos Alamos PrimerThe Los Alamos Primer was a printed version of the first five lectures on the principles of nuclear weapons given to new arrivals at the top-secret Los Alamos laboratory during the Manhattan Project...
(1992) - Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear WestMaking a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear WestMaking a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West is a 1999 book by Len Ackland. Ackland draws on information obtained from governmental sources, federal contractors, personal interviews, and newspaper articles to form a multi-layered history about the controversial Rocky Flats nuclear facility...
(1999) - Maralinga: Australia’s Nuclear Waste Cover-upMaralinga: Australia’s Nuclear Waste Cover-upMaralinga: Australia’s Nuclear Waste Cover-up, is a book by Alan Parkinson about the clean-up of the British atomic bomb test site at Maralinga in South Australia, published in 2007...
(2007) - Megawatts and MegatonsMegawatts and MegatonsMegawatts and Megatons is a 2001 book by Richard L. Garwin and Georges Charpak. The book is said to be a good primer on nuclear power and also a detailed discussion of nuclear weapons and potential paths for weapons reduction....
(2001) - My Australian StoryMy Australian StoryMy Australian Story is a series of historical novels for older children published by Scholastic Australia which was inspired by Dear America. Each book is written in the form of a fictional diary of a young person living during an important event or time period in Australian history. ...
: Atomic Testing (2009) - Non-Nuclear Futures: The Case for an Ethical Energy StrategyNon-Nuclear Futures: The Case for an Ethical Energy StrategyNon-Nuclear Futures: The Case for an Ethical Energy Strategy is a 1975 book by Amory B. Lovins and John H. Price. The main theme of the book is that the most important parts of the nuclear power debate are not technical disputes but relate to personal values, and are the legitimate province of...
(1975) - Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk TechnologiesNormal AccidentsNormal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies is a 1984 book by Charles Perrow, which provides a classic analysis of complex systems conducted from the point of view of a social scientist...
(1984) - Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply SystemNuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply SystemNuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System is a 2008 book by Daniel Pope, a history professor at the University of Oregon, which traces the history of the Washington Public Power Supply System, a public agency which undertook to build five large nuclear power...
(2008) - Nuclear Nebraska: The Remarkable Story of the Little County That Couldn’t Be BoughtNuclear NebraskaNuclear Nebraska: The Remarkable Story of the Little County That Couldn’t Be Bought is a 2007 book by Susan Cragin which follows the controversy about a proposed low level nuclear waste dump which was planned for Boyd County, Nebraska....
(2007) - Nuclear or Not? Does Nuclear Power Have a Place in a Sustainable Energy Future?Nuclear or Not?Nuclear or Not? Does Nuclear Power Have a Place in a Sustainable Energy Future? is a 2007 book edited by Professor David Elliott. The book offers various views and perspectives on nuclear power...
(2007) - Nuclear Politics in AmericaNuclear Politics in AmericaNuclear Politics in America is a 1997 book by Robert J. Duffy. According to Duffy, the "promise and peril of nuclear power have been a preoccupation of the modern age", who was then an assistant professor of political science at Rider University...
(1997) - Nuclear Power and the EnvironmentNuclear Power and the EnvironmentNuclear Power and the Environment, sometimes simply called the Flower's Report, was released in September 1976, and is the sixth report of the UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution, chaired by Sir Brian Flowers...
(1976) - Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable CatastropheNuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable CatastropheNuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe is a 2004 book by Harvard scholar Graham Allison. Allison explains that terrorists have been striving to acquire and then use nuclear weapons against the United States. During the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, President George W...
(2004) - Nuclear Weapons: The Road to ZeroNuclear Weapons: The Road to ZeroNuclear Weapons: The Road to Zero is a 1998 book edited by Joseph Rotblat. Rotblat draws heavily on the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, and in particular on a comprehensive international study published in 1993 on the need and mechanisms to eliminate nuclear weapons...
(1998) - Nukespeak: Nuclear Language, Visions and MindsetNukespeak: Nuclear Language, Visions and MindsetNukespeak: Nuclear Language, Visions and Mindset is a 1982 book by Stephen Hilgartner, Richard C. Bell and Rory O'Connor. This book is a concise history of nuclear weapons and nuclear power in the United States, with special emphasis on the language of the "nuclear mindset".The National Council of...
(1982) - On Nuclear TerrorismOn Nuclear TerrorismIn his 2007 book On Nuclear Terrorism, author Michael A. Levi surveys the issue of nuclear terrorism and explores the decisions a terrorist leader might take in pursuing a nuclear plot...
(2007) - Our Friend the AtomOur Friend the AtomOur Friend the Atom is a 1957 Walt Disney Productions film describing the benefits of atomic power. As well as being presented on the TV Show Disneyland, this film was also shown to almost all baby boomers in their public school auditoriums or their science classes and was instrumental in creating...
(1957) - Protect and SurviveProtect and SurviveProtect and Survive was a public information series on civil defence produced by the British government during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was intended to inform British citizens on how to protect themselves during a nuclear attack, and consisted of a mixture of pamphlets, radio broadcasts,...
(1980) - Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear OptionReaction Time (book)Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option is a book by Professor Ian Lowe which was officially launched by science broadcaster Robyn Williams at the Brisbane Writers' Festival on 15 September 2007...
(2007) - Survival Under Atomic AttackSurvival Under Atomic AttackSurvival Under Atomic Attack was the title of an official United States government booklet released by the Executive Office of the President, the National Security Resources Board , and the Civil Defense Office...
- The Angry Genie: One Man's Walk Through the Nuclear AgeKarl Z. MorganKarl Ziegler Morgan , was an American physicist who was one of the founders of the field of radiation health physics...
(1999) - The Atom BesiegedThe Atom BesiegedThe Atom Besieged: Extraparliamentary Dissent in France and Germany is a 1981 book by Dorothy Nelkin and Michael Pollak. This book examines the opposition to nuclear power in France and West Germany in the 1970s, which is assessed as being broadly based and widespread...
: Extraparliamentary Dissent in France and Germany (1981) - The Atomic WestThe Atomic WestThe Atomic West is a 1998 book edited by Bruce Hevly and John M. Findlay, and published by the University of Washington Press....
(1998) - The Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear WarThe Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear WarThe Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear War is a 1984 non-fiction book by Paul R. Ehrlich, Carl Sagan and Donald Kennedy. It makes dramatic predictions of the effect of nuclear conflagration on the earth's climate ....
(1984) - The Cult of the Atom: The Secret Papers of the Atomic Energy CommissionThe Cult of the AtomThe Cult of the Atom: The Secret Papers of the Atomic Energy Commission is a 1982 book by Daniel Ford. Ford is an economist and former director of the Union of Concerned Scientists, who used the Freedom of Information Act to access thousands of Atomic Energy Commission documents...
- The Day of the BombThe Day of the BombThe Day of the Bomb is a non-fiction book written by the Austrian author Karl Bruckner in 1961....
(1961) - The Fate of the EarthThe Fate of the EarthThe Fate of the Earth is a 1982 book by Jonathan Schell. This "seminal" description of the consequences of nuclear war "forces even the most reluctant person to confront the unthinkable: the destruction of humanity and possibly most life on Earth". The book revitalized the anti-nuclear movement ...
(1982) - The Four Faces of Nuclear TerrorismThe Four Faces of Nuclear TerrorismThe Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism is a 2004 book by Charles D. Ferguson and William C. Potter The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism is a 2004 book by Charles D. Ferguson and William C. Potter The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism is a 2004 book by Charles D. Ferguson and William C. Potter (with Amy...
(2004) - The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons NowThe Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons NowThe Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now is a 1998 book by Jonathan Schell. The book is built on interviews with individuals who had responsibility for nuclear policy in the United States, Russia and Europe, and who came to support the global elimination of nuclear weapons...
(1998) - The International Politics of Nuclear WasteDavid LowryDavid Lowry is a research consultant with specialist knowledge of UK and EU nuclear and environment policy.-Biography:Lowry is a contributing author to a 2007 book on British energy choices entitled Nuclear or Not? In 2001, Lowry was presented with a special award for education at the Nuclear-Free...
(1991) - The Last Train From HiroshimaThe Last Train From HiroshimaThe Last Train From Hiroshima: The Survivors Look Back is a book by American author Charles R. Pellegrino and published on January 19, 2010 by Henry Holt and Company that documents life in Hiroshima and Nagasaki in the time immediately preceding, during and following the aftermath of the atomic...
(2010) - The Lean Guide to Nuclear Energy: A Life-Cycle in Trouble (2007)
- The Making of the Atomic BombThe Making of the Atomic BombThe Making of the Atomic Bomb, a book written by Richard Rhodes, won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction, a National Book Award and a National Book Critics Circle Award...
(1988) - The Navajo People and Uranium MiningThe Navajo People and Uranium MiningThe Navajo People and Uranium Mining is a non-fiction book edited by Doug Brugge, Timothy Benally, and Esther Yazzie-Lewis; it uses oral histories to tell the stories of Navajo Nation miners and families in the uranium mining industry. The foreword is written by Stewart L. Udall, former U.S. House...
(2006) - The Nuclear Power ControversyArthur W. MurphyArthur W. Murphy is Professor Emeritus of Law at Columbia University, who has written on many aspects of nuclear power. From 1961-73 he was a member of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. In 1976 he wrote the book The Nuclear Power Controversy.-References:...
(1976) - The People of Three Mile IslandRobert Del TrediciRobert Del Tredici is a Canadian photographer, artist and teacher, who documented the impact of the 1979 Three Mile Island accident on the community. His first book of photographs and interviews, The People of Three Mile Island , was a sociological critique of nuclear power...
(1980) - The Plutonium FilesThe Plutonium FilesThe Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War is a 1999 book by Eileen Welsome.It is a history of U.S. government-engineered radiation experiments on unwitting Americans, based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning series Welsome wrote for the Albuquerque Tribune.The purpose of...
: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War (1999) - The Psychology of Nuclear ProliferationThe Psychology of Nuclear ProliferationThe Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation: Identity, Emotions, and Foreign Policy is a 2006 book by Jacques E. C. Hymans, published by Cambridge University Press...
(2006) - The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign PolicyThe Samson Option (book)The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy is a 1991 book by Seymour Hersh. It details the history of Israel's nuclear weapons program and its effects on Israel-American relations...
(1991) - The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear DangerThe Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear DangerThe Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger is a 2007 book by Jonathan Schell. It is described as a provocative book which explores the threat posed by some new nuclear policies of the United States...
(2007) - The Truth About ChernobylThe Truth About ChernobylThe Truth About Chernobyl is a 1991 book by Grigori Medvedev. Medvedev served as deputy chief engineer at the No. 1 reactor unit of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the 1970s. At the time of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, Medvedev was deputy director of the main industrial department in the...
(1991) - The Unfinished Twentieth CenturyThe Unfinished Twentieth CenturyIn the 2001 book The Unfinished Twentieth Century, author Jonathan Schell suggests that an essential feature of the twentieth century was the development of humankind's capacity for self-destruction, with the rise in many forms of "policies of extermination"...
(2001) - Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical PerspectiveThree Mile Island (book)Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective is a scholarly history of the Three Mile Island accident, written by J. Samuel Walker and published in 2004...
(2004) - Three Mile Island: Thirty Minutes to MeltdownThree Mile Island: Thirty Minutes to MeltdownThree Mile Island: Thirty Minutes to Meltdown is a 1982 book by Daniel Ford. Ford presents a "meticulous post-mortem of the events that nearly led to a meltdown" at the Metropolitan Edison station near Harrisburg in March 1979. He analyses the complex of people, technology, customs and regulations...
(1982) - TMI 25 Years Later: The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident and Its ImpactTMI 25 Years Later: The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident and Its ImpactTMI 25 Years Later: The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident and Its Impact is a 2004 book which reviews the Three Mile Island accident and its causes, and the subsequent cleanup process which lasted more than a decade...
(2004) - TORCH reportTORCH reportThe TORCH report was requested by the European Greens in 2006, for the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, in reply to the 2006 report of the Chernobyl Forum which was criticized by some advocacy organizations opposed to nuclear energy such as Greenpeace.In 2006, German Green Member...
(2006) - U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret HistoryChuck HansenChuck Hansen compiled, over a period of 30 years, the world's largest private collection of documents on how America developed the atomic bomb. These documents were obtained through the U.S...
(1988) - Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear DisasterVoices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear DisasterVoices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster is a 2005 book by Svetlana Alexievich. Alexievich was a journalist living in Minsk, the capital of Belarus, at the time of the Chernobyl disaster...
(2005) - We Almost Lost DetroitWe Almost Lost DetroitWe Almost Lost Detroit, a 1975 Reader's Digest book by John G. Fuller, presents a history of Fermi 1, America's first commercial breeder reactor, with emphasis on the 1966 partial nuclear meltdown. It was republished in 1984 by Berkley....
(1975) - When Technology FailsWhen Technology FailsWhen Technology Fails, edited by Neil Schlager, is a collection of 103 case studies about significant technological disasters, accidents, and failures of the 20th century. It was published in 1994 by Gale Research, Inc.. It was one of the top referenced books in the New York Public Library in 1995...
(1994) - World Nuclear Industry Status ReportWorld Nuclear Industry Status ReportThe World Nuclear Industry Status Report is a yearly report that explores the global challenges facing the nuclear power industry. The reports show that the share of nuclear-generated electricity in the overall global energy production has decreased in the 2000s...
See also
- List of books about energy issues
- List of books about renewable energy
- List of nuclear holocaust fiction
- List of films about nuclear issues
- List of songs about nuclear war and weapons
- List of crimes involving radioactive substances
- List of environmental books
- Nuclear weapons in popular cultureNuclear weapons in popular cultureSince their public debut in August 1945, nuclear weapons and their potential effects have been a recurring motif in popular culture, to the extent that the decades of the Cold War are often referred to as the "atomic age."-Images of nuclear weapons:...