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The nuclear-water nexus /

Splitting atoms is a water-intensive business. Through numerous in-depth case studies, this volume examines the multiples roles water plays in nuclear energy.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Högselius, Per, 1973- (Editor), Evens, Siegfried (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2025].
Subjects:
Nuclear facilities > Environmental aspects > Case studies.
Nuclear industry > Water-supply > Case studies.
Thermal pollution of rivers, lakes, etc. > Case studies.
Radioactive pollution of water > Case studies.
Nuclear industry > Government policy > Case studies.
Table of Contents:
  • The Sisyphean risk : governing corrosion in nuclear power plants / Siegfried Evens
  • Water : the limiting factor for nuclear power generation in Spain? / Diego Sesma-Martín and Mar Rubio-Varas
  • "Atomi in risaia" : conflicts over water resources in the Italian nuclear program / Elisabetta Bini
  • Water, fish, and contamination in Chernobyl's cooling pond Achim Klüppelberg
  • Lake Stechlin : a thermal sink for East Germany's first atomic power plant / Thomas Turnbull and Maximilian P. Lau
  • The nuclear-water nexus and the origins of European environmental policy : thermal pollution as a transnational problem / Jan-Henrik Meyer
  • The unsustainability of India's nuclear energy policy : resisting the Gorakhpur nuclear project / Sonali Huria
  • Exploring the nuclear-water nexus in India's Adivasi heartland : nuclear after-lives of the Narmada River protests / Kumar Sundaram
  • A nuclear power plant in the Loire estuary : navigating the politics of siting / Anaël Marrec
  • The mark of water on Spain's Vandellòs nuclear power plant / Carlos Gonzalvo Salas
  • Songs of the southland : the nuclear-water nexus in Southern California / Heather Williams and Joanna L. Dyl
  • Soviet envirotechnical landscapes and Crimea's contested nuclearization / Roman Khandozhko
  • Dreams of abundance : America's cold war vision of nuclear desalination / Elizabeth Hameeteman
  • Reviving nuclear desalination? Challenges and prospects in the Arab Gulf States / S. Duygu Sever
  • The waters of project plowshare : hydraulic engineering and fracking with nuclear explosives / Victor McFarland
  • Swamped : flooding and fibbing at the UK's atomic weapons establishment / Peter Burt
  • Below the surface : groundwater in Idaho's nuclear history / Sarah E. Robey
  • The SDAG Wismut : the nuclear-water nexus in uranium ore mining and milling / Sabine Loewe-Hannatzsch
  • Archeologies of toxicity : the St Hélène River liquid archive / Agnès Villette
  • Compounding catastrophes in Polissya : Chornobyl's legacy along the E40 waterway / Jonathon Turnbull and Kate Brown.