- wiki.keithl.com/NuclearPower .
Atomic Dreams
The New Nuclear Evangelists and the Fight for the Future of Energy
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow . 2025 . Bvt Lib 363.1799 TUH
AWFUL citation-notes process. Write down the citation number and the chapter title, look up the chapter number in the table of contents in the front, then find the chapter number in back and the citation number below it. NO INDEX There is no practical reason for this There is plenty of room on the NOTES chapter number line to include chapter titles. If this is the policy at Algonquin Books, I will avoid purchasing their books, and steer my author friends elsewhere. I hope this page is useful to other readers (if any) of this book.
p013 Ch01 The Land
p018 Ch02 "Don't shut it down!"
p028 Ch03 The Club
p040 Ch04 The Plant
p049 Ch05 "Kiss your children goodbye"
p061 Ch06 The Bad Boys
p071 2007 Nordhaus Shellenberger Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility
- PSU basement GE197 .N67 2007
p073 Ch07 Conversions
p073 Tom Blees (many papers and books at PSU library)
- sky-hitching, asking passengers of private planes if he could ride along
p077 Integral Fast Reactor IFR April 3 1986 in Till and Chang Plentiful Energy
- p077 two experiments both succeeded, press release ignored
p080 Blees Prescription for the Planet 2008
p081 Lovins "soft renewables" stagnant, remain small percentage
- p081 If US opts out of IFR, no influence on standards and controls
p084 Ch08 The Deal
p085 Stewart Brand Whole Earth Discipline
p086 Brand's 1968-1973 wife Lois Jennings Britton Whole Earth Catalog
p087 Ryan Phelan 40+ years
p090 Amory Lovins attack in Grist
p091 George Monbiot n19 Fukushima converted me to nuclear power
p091 Pandora's Promise 2013
- p094 the frisson of feeling like a maverick has always been one element of the pro-nuclear movement
- p097 Michael Shellenberger bought cell phone so Obama could call him for advice
- p097 Shellenberger and Nordhaus "divorce" approx. 2015
p099 Ch09 "We are as gods and have to get good at it"
n1 Davis Freeman The Green Cowboy: An Energetic Life 2016
- p100 interprets small Diablo Canyon coolant leak in 2014 as "Shut me down for good before I kill you" message from plant.
p107 2004 1st PG&E bankruptcy due to deregulation and Enron manipulation
p109 FOE lobbies for shutdown, PG&E lobbies for 30 years
Diablo Canyon Power Plant 2030 Planned decommission date
p110 Ch10 "The motherly side of nuclear"
p110 Heather Hoff and Kristin Zaitz founders Mothers for Nuclear
p114 FAQ "safest way to create grid power, period"
- p117 SONGS = San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station
p119 Ch11 The Nuclearists'
p120 Eric Meyer / March for Environmental Hope, Generation Atomic
p131 Fukushima nuclear accident, evacuations far worse than radiation risks
p132 2015 Lancet nuclear aftermath, damage psychological, not physical
- p134 Hansen Kharecha 2013 Nuclear Power Saves Lives. Nature paywalled
p134 Japan/Germany nuclear shutdowns led to 28,000 pollution deaths
p135 Church Rock uranium mill spill
- n22 Michael Shellenberger "If Renewables Are So Great for the Environment, Why Do They Keep Destroying It?" Forbes May 17, 2018
p137 Ch12 The Tribe
p145 Ch13 "But what about the waste?
- p149 "hottest elements" (isotopes) decay fastest
p149 if nuclear reaction poisons removed, spent fuel retains 90% of energy
- Carter shut down reprocessing to prevent weapons diversion, setting an example, which other countries ignored
- p151 U.S. waste storage ignored local consent, Finland and Sweden engaged communities from outset
p161 Ch14 The Guy in the Headband
p163 Edward Calabrese Hormesis
p163 Thomas Neff A Uranium Grand Bargain weapons to fuel
p171 Ch15 The Inside Game
p174 GAIN Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear initiative
p174 ClearPath from conservative perspective
p177 Green New Deal 2018
p177 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Integral Fast Reactor
- n10 "The Nuclear Power Dilemma, Union of Concerned Scientists, October 9, 2018
p179 Ch16 "A heretic among heretics"
- p180 more Shellenberger associated pro-nuclear groups
p182 Stand Up for Nuclear
p188 ecomodernism
- p189 Deaths from natural disasters, 524K in 1920, 78K in 2000, 41K in 2020, due to better systems
p189 Kerry Emanuel MIT meteorologist, left Environmental Progress
p191 Ch17 Nuclear Spring
p191 1972 Oklo natural fission reactor
- p193 will use reprocessed fuel from Integral Fast Reactor
p203 Ch18 The Turning Point
p203 Isabelle Boemeke fashion model, nuclear advocate
p209 Third Way
p211 Clean Air Task Force
- p212 Extend Diablo Canyon support: 58% of California voters, 74% of San Luis Obispo county voters
p216 Ch19 A Social and Political Problem
p216 Charlyne Smith from Jamaica in 2012
p219 Hans Rosling 2010 The Magic Washing Machine
- 1948-2017 pancreatic cancer
- p225 energy tribalism ... instead, share best practices between all energy activists
p227 Terra Praxis ( Ten Terawatt initiative )
p229 Ch20 Diablo Canyon Lives
p234 California SB 846 extending Diablo Canyon license to 2029
- p239 Diablo Canyon is on native land, no compensation ever paid
p241 Ch20 Epilogue
p242 Extreme nuclear risk estimates from MIT science historian Kate Brown
- p244-245 pro- and anti-nuclear both heavily funded, neither are "little guys"
The Power of Nuclear
The Rise, Fall, and Return of our Mightiest Energy Source
Marco Visscher . 2024 . Bvt Lib 333.7924 VIS
- p019 ch01 Pandemonium: Why did we have to split the atom
p025 note 8 1925 Patrick Blackett ejects protons from nitrogen
p027 Leo Szilard supported himself with patents: 1928 linear accelerator, 1928 electron microscope, 1929 cyclotron, 1930 Einstein refrigerator 1944 nuclear reactor,
- p037 ch02 A Welcome Distraction; Why the enthusiasm about nuclear energy?
p050 Tsar Bomba AN602 1961 October 30 50MT
- 60km mushroom cloud ( 67 km Wikipedia )
p051 Calder Hall 1956-2003 240 MWe, weapons plutonium
p053 Abdul Qadeer Khan 1998 Pakistan weapon, also Iran, Libya, North Korea
- p055 ch03 Why the resistance to nuclear energy?
p061 n10 p278 E. Sternglass Sep 1969 "The Death of All Children"
p062 David McTaggart 1972 yacht protest, French test cancelled
- p064 No Nukes conflates weapons and nuclear power
p065 C. P. Snow physicist, novelist (smoked, died of pneumonia age 74}
p067 E. F. Schumacher Small is Beautiful, praised Burma (with ethnic violence and 40 year life expectancy
p070 Günther Schwab Nazi, Ecofascism WSL
p279 ch3 n34 Kernenerhgie Nota 1972
- p081 ch04 Doomed: What went wrong in the world's biggest nuclear disaster?
- p101 ch05 A Strange Glow: How dangerous is radiation?
p284 ch5 n20 https://tinyurl.com/2p9bbm2y
- p119 ch06 Exodus: What should we (not) do after a nuclear accident
- p145 ch07 Peace With the Atomic Bomb: Have nuclear weapons really made the world less safe?
p289 ch7 n20 2019 Feb 08 Benjamin Plackett https://www.aip.org/inside-science/the-science-of-dismantling-a-nuclear-bomb
- p165 ch08 Perverse Incentives: Did the nuclear industry start the decline of nuclear energy?
- p189 ch09 Heated: How can nuclear energy combat climate change?
- p215 ch10 Hidden Treasure: What should we do with nuclear waste?
- p234 ch11 Dreaming of Progress: What does the future of nuclear energy look like?
- p261 Epilogue: A feeling of Awe
- p267 Acknowledgements
- p269 A note on sources
- p272 Notes (above)