Tabak J. Nuclear Energy

Facts On File, Inc., New York, 2009, 206 pages, ISBN: 0816070857Nations around the world already require staggering amounts of energy for use in the transportation, manufacturing, heat-ing and cooling, and electricity sectors, and energy requirements continue to increase as more people adopt more energy-intensive
lifestyles. Meeting this ever-growing demand in a way that mini-mizes environmental disruption is one of the central problems of the 21st century. Proposed solutions are complex and fraught with unintended consequences.
The six-volume Energy and the Environment set is intended to provide an accessible and comprehensive examination of the history, technology, economics, science, and environmental and social im-plications, including issues of environmental justice, associated with the acquisition of energy and the production of power. Each volume describes one or more sources of energy and the technology needed to convert it to useful working energy.A Prehistory of Nuclear Power
The First Heat Engines
Carnot and the Efficiency of Heat Engines
Radioactive Materials as Sources of Thermal Energy
Global Warming and Nuclear PowerThe Physics of Nuclear Fission
Atomic Particles
Conservation Laws and Radioactive Processes
Atomic Fission
Fermi’s ReactorReactor Fuel
Manufacturing Reactor Fuel
Inside the Reactor
Nuclear Weapon Proliferation
The International Atomic Energy AgencyNuclear Reactor Designs
Boiling Water Reactors
Pressurized Water Reactors
The Accident at Chernobyl
CANDU Reactors
Future Reactor DesignsReactor Safety
Radiation Effects
Independent Redundant Subsystems
Where Are the Fatalities?
Event TreesSpent Fuel
The Composition and Characteristics of Spent Fuel
Managing Spent Fuel
Building for Eternity
Is Yucca Mountain Safe Enough?
Nonscientific Objections to the Yucca Mountain SiteThe Business of Electricity Production
Utilities as Natural Monopolies
ISO New England
The Nature of Supply and Demand
Nuclear Power in the United States TodayNuclear Energy and National Policy
Some Arguments for Nuclear Power
Some Arguments against Nuclear Power
Nuclear Power Policy in Germany
Nuclear Power Policy in the United States
Nuclear Power Policy in FranceAfterword: An Interview with Harold Denton: On the U.S. Nuclear Power Industry
Periodic Table of the Elements
Chronology
List of AcronymsFurther