Nuclear power : a reference handbook / Harry Henderson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henderson, Harry, 1951-

Series:

Contemporary world issues

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear engineering.

Nuclear engineering--History.

Nuclear accidents.

Nuclear energy--Government policy.

Nuclear energy.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2000]

Summary:

Problems and crises. Analyses and answers. Contemporary World Issues explores -- topic by topic -- the critical challenges facing America and the world in the 21"st" century.

24-hour cable news. Millions of Internet sites. Information overload. How can we sort through the information? Assess the analyses? Trust the sources? Contemporary World Issues provides a simple solution -- informed and readable authors offering concise yet thorough discussions of today's most talked-about topics as they affect America and the world.

Exploring such diverse subjects as tobacco and terrorism, rainforests and religion, affirmative action and urban sprawl, Contemporary World Issues provides the historical background, the contemporary context, and the resources for further research. Exhaustive, concise, accessible, accurate, and up-to-date.

Contents:

The Discovery of Nuclear Energy 1

Nuclear Fission 3

The First Nuclear Reactor 4

Nuclear Power and Its Problems 5

Nuclear Power Comes On-Line 6

Radiation, Health, and the Environment 7

The Search for Safety 9

Three Mile Island 12

The Chernobyl Disaster 14

The Nuclear Waste Problem 17

Yucca Mountain 19

Transporting Nuclear Waste 20

Nuclear Proliferation 22

What Do You Do with an Old Nuke? 23

A Nuclear Sunset? 25

A Nuclear Renaissance? 27

Conclusion: An Uncertain Future 28

Bernard Baruch (1870-1965) 45

Hans Albrecht Bethe (1906- ) 46

Niels Bohr (1885-1962) 47

Helen B. Caldicott (1938- ) 47

Jimmy Carter (1924- ) 48

Bernard Cohen (1924- ) 48

Barry Commoner (1917- ) 49

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) 49

Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) 50

John Gofman (1918- ) 50

Bourke B. Hickenlooper (1896-1971) 51

Henry M. Jackson (1912-1983) 51

David E. Lilienthal (1899-1981) 52

Lise Meitner (1878-1968) 52

G. C. Minor (1937-1999) 53

Mayumi Oda (1941- ) 53

J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) 54

Dixy Lee Ray (1914-1994) 55

Hyman G. Rickover (1900-1987) 55

Glenn T. Seaborg (1912-1999) 56

Karen Silkwood (1946-1974) 56

Lewis L. Strauss (1896-1974) 57

Grace Thorpe (1924- ) 57

Stewart Udall (1920- ) 58

4 Facts, Illustrations, and Documents 59

Design and Operation of Nuclear Power Plants 59

Basic Nuclear Plant Designs 59

Nuclear Contribution to the U.S. Energy Supply 62

Reactors in the United States 63

World Nuclear Reactors 77

The Fuel Cycle and Nuclear Waste 79

The Nuclear Fuel Cycle 79

Locations of Spent Fuel Storage 85

The Yucca Mountain Proposal 85

Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Depository 85

Opposition to Nuclear Power 102

Nuclear Power's Failed Promise 102

The Nuclear Waste Controversy 105

What's Wrong with Burying Nuclear Waste at Yucca Mountain? 106

Why We Call It "Mobile Chernobyl," 113

Legal Aspects of Nuclear Power 116

Regulations 116

International Cooperation and Treaties 119

Regulatory Agencies 121

Court Cases 122

Advocacy 156

Antinuclear 156

Pronuclear 158

Regulations, Politics, and Policymaking 159

Regulatory Policy and Politics 159

Future Prospects 167

International Issues 169

Development of Nuclear Power in Other Nations 169

Nuclear Proliferation 172

Nuclear Disasters 176

Three Mile Island 176

Chernobyl 176

Nuclear Waste Issues 178

Environmental Effects 178

Waste Disposal and Management 180

Miscellaneous Issues 183

Fusion Power 183

Nuclear Power in Space 183

Historical and Documentary 194

Regulatory, Legal, and Governmental Information 195

Technical Information about Nuclear Power 197

Radiation and Nuclear Waste 199

Antinuclear 200

News Groups 201

Audiovisual Materials 202

Antinuclear Advocacy 205

Pronuclear Advocacy 210

Chernobyl and Other Nuclear Accidents 211

Nuclear Waste and Environmental Effects 213.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1576071286

OCLC:

44573344