Nuclear power : policies, practices, and the future /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Siemer, Darryl (Author)
Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Beverly, MA : Hoboken, NJ : Scrivener Publishing ; Wiley, 2019.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1 Africa's Especially Special Issues
  • 2 Why Everything Boils Down to Energy Inputs
  • 3 A Sustainable Nuclear Renaissance's Other "Killer Apps"
  • 4 Why Sustainability Requires Breeder Reactors
  • 5 Today's More Promising Breeder Reactor Concepts
  • 6 Economics: The Main Reason that the USA's Nuclear Power Industry is Now on the Ropes
  • 7 The Nuclear Establishment's Self-Inflicted Wounds
  • 8 "The Damned Human Race"
  • 9 Why the Western World's Erstwhile Leader in Nuclear Energy Must "Embrace Change"
  • 10 Suggestions for Improvement
  • 11 Conclusions
  • References
  • Appendices.