M.V. Ramana

Nuclear is Not the Solution

The Folly of Atomic Power in the Age of Climate Change

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Produktbeschreibung

NUCLEAR POWER WILL SLOW OUR RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND INCREASE THE RISK OF WEAPONS PROLIFERATION AND CATASTROPHE

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso Books
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: August 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 150mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 352g
• ISBN-13: 9781804290002
• ISBN-10: 1804290009
• Artikelnr.: 69526145

Autorenporträt

M.V. Ramana is the Simons Chair in Disarmament, Global and Human Security and Professor at the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs, at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. He is the author of The Power of Promise: Examining Nuclear Energy in India (Penguin Books, 2012) and co-editor of Prisoners of the Nuclear Dream (Orient Longman, 2003). Ramana is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials, the Canadian Pugwash Group, the International Nuclear Risk Assessment Group, and the team that produces the annual World Nuclear Industry Status Report. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Leo Szilard Award from the American Physical Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Undesirable: Risks to the Environment and People’s Health from Nuclear
Energy
2. Infeasible: The Financial and Temporal Costs of Nuclear Energy
3. Private Profits, Social Costs: Industry Strategies
4. Enabling Moneymaking, Singing Praise: Governments and Nuclear Power
5. May the Atom Be a Soldier: Nuclear Power for War
6. Magical Thinking and Billionaire Messiahs: New Technology as Solution?
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index