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Nuclear Power and Public Policy

Author : Kristin Shrader-Frechette
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nuclear Power and Public Policy written by Kristin Shrader-Frechette and published by Springer. This book was released on 1983 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book grew out of projects funded by the Kentucky Human ities Council in 1974 and. 1975 and by the Environmental Protec tion Agency in 1976 and 1977. As a result of the generosity of these two agencies, I was able to study the logical, methodological, and ethical assumptions inherent in the decision to utilize nuclear fission for generating electricity. Since both grants gave me the opportunity to survey public policy-making, I discovered that there were critical lacunae in allegedly comprehensive analyses of various energy technologies. Ever since this discovery, one of my goals has been to fill one of these gaps by writing a well-docu mented study of some neglected social and ethical questions regarding nuclear power. Although many assessments of atomic energy written by en vironmentalists are highly persuasive, they often also are overly emotive and question-begging. Sometimes they employ what seem to be correct ethical conclusions, but they do so largely in an in tuitive, rather than a closely-reasoned, manner. On the other hand, books and reports written by nuclear proponents, often Under government contract, almost always ignore the social and ethical aspects of energy decision-making; they focus instead only on a purely scientific assessment of fission generation of electricity. What the energy debate needs, I believe, are more studies which aim at ethical analysis and which avoid unsubstantiated assertions. I hope that these essays are steps in that direction.

Cross-Cultural Risk Perception

Author : Ortwin Renn
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475748914
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Cross-Cultural Risk Perception written by Ortwin Renn and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cross-Cultural Risk Perception demonstrates the richness and wealth of theoretical insights and practical information that risk perception studies can offer to policy makers, risk experts, and interested parties. The book begins with an extended introduction summarizing the state of the art in risk perception research and core issues of cross-cultural comparisons. The main body of the book consists of four cross-cultural studies on public attitudes towards risk in different countries, including the United States, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Sweden, Bulgaria, Romania, Japan, and China. The last chapter critically discusses the main findings from these studies and proposes a framework for understanding and investigating cross-cultural risk perception. Finally, implications for communication, regulation and management are outlined. The two editors, sociologist Ortwin Renn (Center of Technology Assessment, Germany) and psychologist Bernd Rohrmann (University of Melbourne, Australia), have been engaged in risk research for the last three decades. They both have written extensively on this subject and provided new empirical and theoretical insights into the growing body of international risk perception research.

Chain Reaction

Author : Brian Balogh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521372961
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Chain Reaction written by Brian Balogh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-10-25 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Path-breaking research into the Atomic Energy Commission's internal memorandum files supports this text's explanation of how and why America came to depend so heavily on its experts after World War II and why their authority and political clout declined in the 1970s.

Seeing the Light: The Case for Nuclear Power in the 21st Century

Author : Scott L. Montgomery
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108418228
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Seeing the Light: The Case for Nuclear Power in the 21st Century written by Scott L. Montgomery and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first accessible book to discuss all aspects of nuclear power to help combat climate change and lethal air pollution.

Nuclear Power and the Environment

Author : Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain)
Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
ISBN 13 : 1849731942
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Nuclear Power and the Environment written by Royal Society of Chemistry (Great Britain) and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2011 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews the political and social context for nuclear power generation, the nuclear fuel cycles and their implications for the environment.

Nuclear Power Explained

Author : Dirk Eidemüller
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030726703
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Nuclear Power Explained written by Dirk Eidemüller and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From World War II to the present day, nuclear power has remained a controversial topic in the public eye. In the wake of ongoing debates about energy and the environment, policymakers and laypeople alike are once more asking the questions posed by countless others over the decades: What actually happens in a nuclear power plant? Can we truly trust nuclear energy to be safe and reliable? Where does all that radiation and waste go? This book explains everything you would want to know about nuclear power in a compelling and accessible way. Split into three parts, it walks readers through the basics of nuclear physics and radioactivity; the history of nuclear power usage, including the most important events and disasters; the science and engineering behind nuclear power plants; the politics and policies of various nations; and finally, the long-term societal impact of such technology, from uranium mining and proliferation to final disposal. Featured along the way are dozens of behind-the-scenes, full-color images of nuclear facilities. Written in a nontechnical style with minimal equations, this book will appeal to lay readers, policymakers and professionals looking to acquire a well-rounded view about this complex subject.

Risk Evaluation and Management

Author : V.T. Covello
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461321034
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Risk Evaluation and Management written by V.T. Covello and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public attention has focused in recent years on an array of technological risks to health, safety, and the environment. At the same time, responsibilities for technological risk as sessment, evaluation, and management have grown in both the public and private sectors because of a perceived need to anticipate, prevent, or reduce the risks inherent in modem society. In attempting to meet these responsibilities, legislative, judicial, regulatory, and private sector institutions have had to deal with the extraordinarily complex problems of assessing and balancing risks, costs, and benefits. The need to help society cope with technological risks has given rise to a new intellectual endeavor: the social and behavioral study of issues in risk evaluation and risk management. The scope and complexity of these analyses require a high degree of cooperative effort on the part of specialists from many fields. Analyzing social and behavioral issues requires the efforts of political scientists, sociologists, decision analysts, management scientists, econ omists, psychologists, philosophers, and policy analysts, among others.

Nuclear Power and the Public

Author : Harry Foreman
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Nuclear Power and the Public written by Harry Foreman and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The National Politics of Nuclear Power

Author : Benjamin K. Sovacool
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136294376
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (362 download)

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Download or read book The National Politics of Nuclear Power written by Benjamin K. Sovacool and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics driving, and constraining, nuclear power development in Asia, Europe and North America, providing detailed comparative analysis. The book formulates a theory of nuclear socio-political economy which highlights six factors necessary for embarking on nuclear power programs: (1) national security and secrecy, (2) technocratic ideology, (3) economic interventionism, (4) a centrally coordinated energy stakeholder network, (5) subordination of opposition to political authority, and (6) social peripheralization. The book validates this theory by confirming the presence of these six drivers during the initial nuclear power developmental periods in eight countries: the United States, France, Japan, Russia (the former Soviet Union), South Korea, Canada, China, and India. The authors then apply this framework as a predictive tool to evaluate contemporary nuclear power trends. They discuss what this theory means for developed and developing countries which exhibit the potential for nuclear development on a major scale, and examine how the new "renaissance" of nuclear power may affect the promotion of renewable energy, global energy security, and development policy as a whole. The volume also assesses the influence of climate change and the recent nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan, on the nuclear power industry’s trajectory. This book will be of interest to students of energy policy and security, nuclear proliferation, international security, global governance and IR in general.

Power to Save the World

Author : Gwyneth Cravens
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030726856X
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Power to Save the World written by Gwyneth Cravens and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An informed look at the myths and fears surrounding nuclear energy, and a practical, politically realistic solution to global warming and our energy needs. Faced by the world's oil shortages and curious about alternative energy sources, Gwyneth Cravens skeptically sets out to find the truth about nuclear energy. Her conclusion: it is a totally viable and practical solution to global warming. In the end, we see that if we are to care for subsequent generations, embracing nuclear energy is an ethical imperative.

Controlling the Atom

Author : George T. Mazuzan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520051829
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Controlling the Atom written by George T. Mazuzan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Price of Nuclear Power

Author : Stephanie A. Malin
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 081356980X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book The Price of Nuclear Power written by Stephanie A. Malin and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Keeping the Lights on at America's Nuclear Power Plants

Author : Jeremy Carl
Publisher : Hoover Press
ISBN 13 : 081792096X
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book Keeping the Lights on at America's Nuclear Power Plants written by Jeremy Carl and published by Hoover Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Keeping the Lights On at America's Nuclear Power Plants, Jeremy Carl and David Fedor discuss the decline of American nuclear power in light of major economic, technological and political challenges. They show how high costs, low public support, and popular clean energy trends threaten America's near- and long-term nuclear viability. American nuclear power plants are closing at a historically unprecedented pace, and there's little evidence of public or political will to stop the bleeding. Recognizing the nuclear industry's flaws, the authors argue that nuclear energy is widely misunderstood. They discuss the nuclear industry's failure to capture the public's attention and imagination, and survey the new national conversation about America's renewable energy future -- a conversation that does not include nuclear. For all these challenges, the authors argue that permanently opting out of the nuclear enterprise would be a mistake. Making the case for continued nuclear investment, they show how "keeping the lights on" at America's nuclear plants can bolster American technology leadership, security, and commitment to curbing carbon emissions. They offer a menu of policy options designed to spur meaningful action at state and federal levels, to change the industry's status quo, and to reintroduce nuclear to America's energy conversation.

Nuclear Power in an Age of Uncertainty

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Nuclear Power in an Age of Uncertainty written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Democratic Dilemma

Author : Arthur Lupia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521585934
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (859 download)

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Download or read book The Democratic Dilemma written by Arthur Lupia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-03-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Voters cannot answer simple survey questions about politics. Legislators cannot recall the details of legislation. Jurors cannot comprehend legal arguments. Observations such as these are plentiful and several generations of pundits and scholars have used these observations to claim that voters, legislators, and jurors are incompetent. Are these claims correct? Do voters, jurors, and legislators who lack political information make bad decisions? In The Democratic Dilemma, Professors Arthur Lupia and Mathew McCubbins explain how citizens make decisions about complex issues. Combining insights from economics, political science, and the cognitive sciences, they seek to develop theories and experiments about learning and choice. They use these tools to identify the requirements for reasoned choice - the choice that a citizen would make if she possessed a certain (perhaps, greater) level of knowledge. The results clarify debates about voter, juror, and legislator competence and also reveal how the design of political institutions affects citizens' abilities to govern themselves effectively.

Nuclear Politics in America

Author : Robert J. Duffy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780700608539
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book Nuclear Politics in America written by Robert J. Duffy and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The promise and peril of nuclear power have been a preoccupation of the modern age. Robert Duffy now examines the politics of nuclear power over the last 50 years, relating broad trends in American politics to changes in the regulation of the nuclear industry to show how federal policies in this area have been made, implemented, and altered.

Nuclear Renewal

Author : Richard Rhodes
Publisher : Viking Adult
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Nuclear Renewal written by Richard Rhodes and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1993 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhodes posits that nuclear power affords the safest, cheapest, and cleanest energy available.