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Nuclear Choices for the Twenty-First Century
A Citizen's Guide
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Artikel-Nr:
9780262542036
Veröffentl:
2021
Erscheinungsdatum:
23.03.2021
Seiten:
560
Autor:
Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress
Gewicht:
646 g
Format:
223x156x27 mm
Sprache:
Deutsch
Beschreibung:
Richard Wolfson and Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress
An authoritative and unbiased guide to nuclear technology and the controversies that surround it.Are you for nuclear power or against it? What's the basis of your opinion? Did you know a CT scan gives you some 2 millisieverts of radiation? Do you know how much a millisievert is? Does irradiation make foods safer or less safe? What is the point of a bilateral Russia-US nuclear weapons treaty in a multipolar world? These are nuclear questions that call for nuclear choices, and this book equips citizens to make these choices informed ones. It explains, clearly and accessibly, the basics of nuclear technology and describes the controversies surrounding its use.
PrefaceChapter 1 Nuclear Questions, Nuclear ChoicesPart I The Nuclear DifferenceChapter 2 Atoms and NucleiChapter 3 RadioactivityChapter 4 RadiationChapter 5 Energy from the NucleusPart II Nuclear PowerChapter 6 Energy: Using It, Making ItChapter 7 Nuclear ReactorsChapter 8 Reactor SafetyChapter 9 Nuclear Waste and Fuel CyclesChapter 10 A Future for Nuclear Fission?Chapter 11 Nuclear FusionPart III Nuclear WeaponsChapter 12 Nuclear Weapons: History and TechnologyChapter 13 Effects of Nuclear WeaponsChapter 14 Delivering Nuclear WeaponsChapter 15 Nuclear StrategyChapter 16 Nuclear TerrorismChapter 17 Defense in the Nuclear AgeChapter 18 Arms Control and Nuclear ProliferationChapter 19 A World Without Nuclear Weapons?Chapter 20 Nuclear Power, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear FuturesIndex