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Megawatts and Megatons : A Turning Point in the Nuclear Age? |
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From Booklist
A fixture for decades in the U.S. nuclear establishment, Garwin here teams with a French physicist to inform nonscientists about the facts of nuclear energy in both its military and civilian applications. In a world that is, on the one hand, worried by carbon-dioxide emissions but, on the other, consuming ever more copious amounts of electricity, a simpleminded antinuclear stance will not suffice. N... >> |
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Tritium on Ice : The Dangerous New Alliance of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power |
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Review
"Tritium on Ice is an excellent book that deserves to be widely read by experts and lay people alike." -- Jack Harris, The Times Higher
Book Description
In December 1998, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announced that the U.S. planned to begin producing tritium for its nuclear weapons in commercial nuclear power plants. This decision overturned a fifty-year policy of keeping civilian and military nuclear production processes separate. Tritium, a... >> |
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