Author | : Richard Rhodes |
Publisher | : Viking Adult |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Rhodes posits that nuclear power affords the safest, cheapest, and cleanest energy available.
Author | : Richard Rhodes |
Publisher | : Viking Adult |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Rhodes posits that nuclear power affords the safest, cheapest, and cleanest energy available.
Author | : Stephanie A. Malin |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2015-05-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 081356980X |
Rising fossil fuel prices and concerns about greenhouse gas emissions are fostering a nuclear power renaissance and a revitalized uranium mining industry across the American West. In The Price of Nuclear Power, environmental sociologist Stephanie Malin offers an on-the-ground portrait of several uranium communities caught between the harmful legacy of previous mining booms and the potential promise of new economic development. Using this context, she examines how shifting notions of environmental justice inspire divergent views about nuclear power’s sustainability and equally divisive forms of social activism. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted in rural isolated towns such as Monticello, Utah, and Nucla and Naturita, Colorado, as well as in upscale communities like Telluride, Colorado, and incorporating interviews with community leaders, environmental activists, radiation regulators, and mining executives, Malin uncovers a fundamental paradox of the nuclear renaissance: the communities most hurt by uranium’s legacy—such as high rates of cancers, respiratory ailments, and reproductive disorders—were actually quick to support industry renewal. She shows that many impoverished communities support mining not only because of the employment opportunities, but also out of a personal identification with uranium, a sense of patriotism, and new notions of environmentalism. But other communities, such as Telluride, have become sites of resistance, skeptical of industry and government promises of safe mining, fearing that regulatory enforcement won’t be strong enough. Indeed, Malin shows that the nuclear renaissance has exacerbated social divisions across the Colorado Plateau, threatening social cohesion. Malin further illustrates ways in which renewed uranium production is not a socially sustainable form of energy development for rural communities, as it is utterly dependent on unstable global markets. The Price of Nuclear Power is an insightful portrait of the local impact of the nuclear renaissance and the social and environmental tensions inherent in the rebirth of uranium mining.
Author | : Jack Devanney |
Publisher | : Bookbaby |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2020-11-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781098308964 |
This book is a collection of essays focused on the Gordian knot of our time, the closely coupled problems of energy poverty for billions of humans, and global warming for all humans. The central thesis of the book in that nuclear power is not only the only solution, it is a highly desirable solution, cheaper, safer, less intrusive on nature than all the alternatives.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Matti Kojo |
Publisher | : Palgrave MacMillan |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2009-05-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
In 2002 Finnish Parliament decided to permit further construction of nuclear power after decades of long societal struggle. This book analyzes the major phases of the decision-making process. It is an excellent guide to understanding energy and climate policy in Finland and thus the main ideas behind the renewal of nuclear power in Europe.
Author | : William Joseph Burns |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 522 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0525508864 |
As a distinguished and admired American diplomat of the last half century, Burns has played a central role in the most consequential diplomatic episodes of his time: from the bloodless end of the Cold War and post-Cold War relations with Putin's Russia to the secret nuclear talks with Iran. Here he recounts some of the seminal moments of his career, drawing on newly declassified cables and memos to give readers a rare, inside look at American diplomacy in action, and of the people who worked with him. The result is an powerful reminder of the enduring importance of diplomacy. -- adapted from jacket
Author | : Henry Kissinger |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 1204 |
Release | : 2011-06-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1451636482 |
Perhaps the best-known American diplomatist of the twentieth century, Henry Kissinger is a major figure in world history, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and arguably one of the most brilliant minds ever placed at the service of American foreign policy, as well as one of the shrewdest, best-informed, and most articulate men ever to occupy a position of power in Washington. The eagerly awaited third and final volume of his memoirs completes a major work of contemporary history. It is at once an important historical document and a brilliantly told narrative of almost Shakespearean intensity, full of startling insights, unusual (and often unsparing) candor, and a sweeping sense of history. Years of Renewal is the triumphant conclusion of a major achievement and a book that will stand the test of time as a historical document of the first rank.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 748 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Administrative law |
ISBN | : |
Special edition of the Federal Register, containing a codification of documents of general applicability and future effect ... with ancillaries.