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The Power of Nuclear

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From the pilot's seat in the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, to Chernobyl's exclusion zone and to the site in Finland where highly radioactive waste will be buried, this is the incredible story of nuclear power. Providing a vivid account of the characters and events that have shaped the world's most controversial energy source and our thinking around it, The Power of Nuclear weaves politics, culture and technology to explore nuclear power's past and future. In his quest to disentangle myth from facts, Marco Visscher asks: How dangerous is radiation? What should you do after a nuclear accident? Have nuclear weapons really made the world less safe? And why do some still reject the evidence showing the atom can provide unlimited clean energy, free countries of their dependence on fossil fuels and combat climate change? This is an informed look at what we might do with nuclear power - and what nuclear power is doing to us.

Table of Contents:
1. Pandemonium: Why did we need to split the atom? 2. A Welcome Distraction: Why the enthusiasm about nuclear energy? 3. The Reckoning: Why the resistance against nuclear energy 4. Doomed: What went wrong in the world's biggest nuclear disaster 5. A Strange Glow: How dangerous is radiation? 6. Exodus: What should you (not) do after a nuclear accident? 7. Peace With the Atomic Bomb: Have nuclear weapons really made the world less safe? 8. Perverse Incentives: Was the industry itself responsible for the decline in nuclear power? 9. Heated: How can nuclear energy combat climate change? 10. Hidden Treasure: What should we do with nuclear waste? 11. Dreaming of Progress: What does the future of nuclear energy look like?

About the Author :
Marco Visscher is an award-winning journalist from the Netherlands. Over the last 25 years he has written extensively about climate policy and clean technology for leading newspapers and magazines. He is a former magazine editor and the author of several books who lives with his wife and three children in Rotterdam.

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Lively and informative Reads like a thriller but informs like a textbook... essential reading for anyone with questions about nuclear A truly original take on a topic that has been debated for so long by so many. Whether you're skeptical or agnostic about [nuclear energy], you will find plenty in this extraordinary book that will surprise you, and make you think. A lively and even-handed book about the history and future of nuclear power. Original and gripping. This brisk and entertaining book is as much a cultural history a technological one. With its factual rigor and accessible, persuasive arguments... the book makes a fine case for preserving and reviving 'our mightiest energy source. [A] compelling account of the most significant form of energy generation discovered since the Industrial Revolution [and] a vital retort to the scaremongering around nuclear. Visscher's clear, well-reasoned and well-explained book, aimed at general audiences, offers an accessible alternative perspective on nuclear power, which he believes has been unfairly maligned and misunderstood. A rightfully urgent call to ban the Bomb-and stat. Notable new book on the environment. One of the best environment, science and technology books of summer 2025.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781399419062
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Sigma
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1399419064
  • Publisher Date: 07 Nov 2024
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 320


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