Il nudo fra ideale e realtà : dal neoclassicismo ad oggi

• Record Nr.: UNISA990001492590203316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Milano : Artificio Skira, 2004
• ISBN: 88-8491-831-6
• Descrizione fisica: 303 p. : ill. ; 32x24 cm.
• Disciplina: 704.9421
• Soggetti: Nudo <arte> - Esposizioni - Bologna - 2004
• Collocazione: XII.2.D. 474(VII E 787)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Italiano
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Nuclear energy [[electronic resource] /] / Charles D. Ferguson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910465466703321
• Autore: Ferguson Charles D
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-09813-X; 9786613098139; 0-19-979245-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Collana: What everyone needs to know
• Disciplina: 333.792/4
• Soggetti: Nuclear energy; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: COVER; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; 1 Fundamentals; 2 Energy Security and Costs of Building Power Plants; 3 Climate Change; 4 Proliferation; 5 Safety; 6 Physical Security; 7 Radioactive Waste ; Management; 8 Sustainable Energy; SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: Originally perceived as a cheap and plentiful source of power, the commercial use of nuclear energy has been controversial for decades. Worries about the dangers that nuclear plants and their radioactive waste posed to nearby communities grew over time, and plant construction in the United States virtually died after the early 1980's. The 1986 disaster at Chernobyl only reinforced nuclear power's negative image. Yet in the decade prior to the Japanese nuclear crisis of 2011, sentiment about nuclear power underwent a marked change. The alarming acceleration of global warming due to the burning...