02884nam 2200673 a 450 991065911090332120240516052430.00-19-979299-21-283-09813-X97866130981390-19-979245-3(CKB)2560000000073364(EBL)689292(OCoLC)721195513(SSID)ssj0000524524(PQKBManifestationID)12222751(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000524524(PQKBWorkID)10548019(PQKB)10714337(Au-PeEL)EBL689292(CaPaEBR)ebr10467545(CaONFJC)MIL309813(MiAaPQ)EBC689292(OCoLC)862947188(OCoLC)992560000000073364(OCoLC)1229510253(FINmELB)ELB162504(EXLCZ)99256000000007336420101102d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrNuclear energy /Charles D. Ferguson1st ed.New York Oxford University Press2011[Washington, D.C.] :Library of Congress, Science, Technology & Business Division, Science Reference Services,[2011]1 online resource (241 p.)What everyone needs to knowDescription based upon print version of record.0-19-975946-4 0-19-975945-6 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; INDEXOriginally 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...What everyone needs to know.Nuclear energyBibliographies.lcgftNuclear energy.333.792/4Ferguson Charles D125291Library of Congress.Science, Technology, and Business Division.Science Reference Services,MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910659110903321Nuclear energy2728455UNINA