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==== The New Nuclear Evangelists and the Fight for the Future of Energy ====
==== Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow . 2025 . Bvt Lib 363.1799 ====
=== The New Nuclear Evangelists and the Fight for the Future of Energy ===
=== Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow . 2025 . Bvt Lib 363.1799 TUH ===
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 .'''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 [[ https://thesciencecouncil.com/about/founder-and-president/31-global-road-map | Tom Blees ]] (many papers and books at PSU library)
  . sky-hitching, asking passengers of private planes if he could ride along
 .p077 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_fast_reactor | Integral Fast Reactor ]] IFR April 3 1986 in Till and Chang Plentiful Energy
 .p077 two experiments both succeeded, press release ignored
 .p080 Blees [[ https://www.thesciencecouncil.com/pdfs/P4TP4U.pdf | Prescription for the Planet ]] 2008
 .p081 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amory_Lovins | 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 [[ https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2023/06/102792664-05-01-acc.pdf | Lois Jennings Britton ]] ''Whole Earth Catalog''
 .p087 [[https://www.islandconservation.org/team/ryan-phelan/#:~:text=Ryan%20Phelan%20is%20Co%2Dfounder,of%20endangered%20and%20extinct%20species. | Ryan Phelan ]] 40+ years
 .p090 Amory Lovins attack in [[ https://grist.org/article/2009-10-13-stewart-brands-nuclear-enthusiasm-falls-short-on-facts-and-logic/ | Grist ]]
 .p091 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Monbiot | George Monbiot ]] n19 [[ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/mar/21/pro-nuclear-japan-fukushima | Fukushima converted me to nuclear power ]]
 .p091 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora%27s_Promise | 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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Gas_and_Electric_Company#2001_bankruptcy | 2004 1st PG&E bankruptcy ]] due to deregulation and Enron manipulation
 .p107 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bruno_pipeline_explosion | San Bruno pipeline explosion ]]
 .p108 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alliance_for_Nuclear_Responsibility | Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility ]]
 .p109 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends_of_the_Earth | FOE ]] lobbies for shutdown, PG&E lobbies for 30 years
 . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant | Diablo Canyon Power Plant ]] 2030 Planned decommission date
 .'''p110 Ch10 "The motherly side of nuclear"'''
 .p110 Heather Hoff and Kristin Zaitz founders [[ https://mothersfornuclear.org | Mothers for Nuclear ]]
 .p114 [[ https://mothersfornuclear.org/faq | FAQ ]] "safest way to create grid power, period"
 .p117 SONGS = San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station
 .'''p119 Ch11 The Nuclearists''''
 .p120 [[ https://www.generationatomic.org/why-generation-atomic-isnt-marching/ | Eric Meyer / March for Environmental Hope ]], Generation Atomic
 .p121 [[ https://inspirehep.net/authors/1012693 | Mary Anne Clare Cummings ]]
 .p131 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_nuclear_accident | Fukushima nuclear accident ]], evacuations far worse than radiation risks
 .p132 [[ https://fmu.repo.nii.ac.jp/record/2000058/files/Lancet_386_p479.pdf | 2015 Lancet nuclear aftermath ]], damage psychological, not physical
 .p134 Hansen Kharecha 2013 Nuclear Power Saves Lives. Nature paywalled
 .p134 [[ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421519303611 | Japan/Germany nuclear shutdowns led to 28,000 pollution deaths ]]
 .p135 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Rock_uranium_mill_spill | 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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_poison | 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'''
 .p162 [[ https://cgnp.org/ | Californians for Green Nuclear Power ]] [[ https://cgnp.org/team-view/inga-north/ | Gene Nelson ]]
 .p163 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Calabrese | Edward Calabrese ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis | Hormesis ]]
 .p163 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Neff | Thomas Neff ]] [[ https://www.nytimes.com/1991/10/24/opinion/a-grand-uranium-bargain.html | A Uranium Grand Bargain ]] weapons to fuel
 .'''p171 Ch15 The Inside Game'''
 .p174 [[ https://gain.inl.gov/ | GAIN ]] Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear initiative
 .p174 [[ https://clearpath.org/ | ClearPath ]] from conservative perspective
 .p177 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_New_Deal | Green New Deal ]] 2018
 .p177 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandria_Ocasio-Cortez | 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 [[ https://standupfornuclear.org/ | Stand Up for Nuclear ]]
 .p188 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecomodernism | ecomodernism ]]
 .p189 Deaths from natural disasters, 524K in 1920, 78K in 2000, 41K in 2020, due to better systems
 .p189 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerry_Emanuel | Kerry Emanuel ]] MIT meteorologist, left [[ https://environmentalprogress.org/ | Environmental Progress ]]
 .'''p191 Ch17 Nuclear Spring'''
 .p191 1972 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_nuclear_fission_reactor | Oklo natural fission reactor ]]
 .p192 [[ https://www.oklo.com/overview/default.aspx | Oklo advanced fission power plant company ]]
 .p193 will use reprocessed fuel from Integral Fast Reactor
 .'''p203 Ch18 The Turning Point'''
 .p203 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabelle_Boemeke | Isabelle Boemeke ]] fashion model, nuclear advocate
 .p204 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolyn_Porco | Carolyn C. Porco ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-salt_reactor | molten salt thorium reactors ]]
 .p209 [[ https://www.thirdway.org/issue/advanced-nuclear-energy | Third Way ]]
 .p211 [[ https://www.catf.us/ | 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 [[ https://thebreakthrough.org/people/charlyne-smith | Charlyne Smith ]] from Jamaica in 2012
 .p219 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rosling | Hans Rosling ]] 2010 [[ https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_magic_washing_machine?language=en | The Magic Washing Machine ]]
  . 1948-2017 pancreatic cancer
 .p224 [[ https://www.goodenergycollective.org/ | Good Energy Collective ]]
 .p225 energy tribalism ... instead, share best practices between all energy activists
 .p227 [[ https://www.terrapraxis.org/ | Terra Praxis ]] ( Ten Terawatt initiative )
 .'''p229 Ch20 Diablo Canyon Lives'''
 .p234 [[ https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/industries-and-topics/electrical-energy/electric-costs/what-are-nuclear-electric-cost/senate-bill-846 | 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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Brown_(professor) | Kate Brown ]]
  .n5 [[ https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.abg2365 | Lack of Transgenerational Effects of Ionizing Radiation Exposure from the Chernobyl Accident ]]
 .p244-245 pro- and anti-nuclear both heavily funded, neither are "little guys"
 .p247 [[ https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/10/12/greta-thunberg-and-norwegian-activists-stand-firm-against-wind-farm-on-sami-reindeer-herdi | Greta Thunberg protesting a wind farm ]]
 .p249 [[ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/29/opinion/biden-liberalism-infrastructure-building.html | center-left to left "abundance agenda" ]]
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== The Power of Nuclear ==
=== The Rise, Fall, and Return of our Mightiest Energy Source ===
=== Marco Visscher . 2024 . Bvt Lib 333.7924 VIS ===
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 .'''p019 ch01 Pandemonium: Why did we have to split the atom'''
 .p025 note 8 1925 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Blackett | Patrick Blackett ]] ejects protons from nitrogen
 .p027 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Szilard | 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?'''
 .p049 [[ http://route66times.com/l/nm/grants-uranium-cafe.htm | Uranium Cafe in Grants, NM ]]
 .p050 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba | Tsar Bomba ]] AN602 1961 October 30 50MT
  . 60km mushroom cloud ( 67 km Wikipedia )
 .p051 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calder_Hall_nuclear_power_station | Calder Hall ]] 1956-2003 240 MWe, weapons plutonium
 .p053 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Qadeer_Khan | Abdul Qadeer Khan ]] 1998 Pakistan weapon, also Iran, Libya, North Korea


 .'''p055 ch03 Why the resistance to nuclear energy?'''
 .p060 [[ https://ejatlas.org/print/whyl-in-germany | Wyhl anti-nuke movement in Kaiserstuhl, Germany ]]
 .p061 n10 p278 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_J._Sternglass | E. Sternglass ]] [[ http://tinyurl.com/yc5tfhdm | Sep 1969 "The Death of All Children" ]]
 .p062 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_McTaggart | David McTaggart ]] 1972 yacht protest, French test cancelled
  . [[ https://search.worldcat.org/title/4643326 | Greenpeace III: Journey into the Bomb ]]
 .p064 No Nukes conflates weapons and nuclear power
 .p065 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._P._Snow | C. P. Snow ]] physicist, novelist (smoked, died of pneumonia age 74}
 .p067 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._F._Schumacher | E. F. Schumacher ]] Small is Beautiful, praised Burma (with ethnic violence and 40 year life expectancy
 .p070 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%BCnther_Schwab | Günther Schwab ]] Nazi, [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofascism | Ecofascism ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Union_for_Protection_of_Life | WSL ]]
 .p071 fossil-fuelled central capacity was better (coal and gas) because that would greatly benefit national well-being
  .ch3 n34 [[ https://tinyurl.com/tv6pkk7s | Kernenerhgie Nota 1972 ]]
 .p071 Schumacher lamented ... too many British coal mines were closed in the 1960s


 .'''p081 ch04 Doomed: What went wrong in the world's biggest nuclear disaster?'''
 .p095 Chernobyl "bridge of death" urban legend
  .ch4 n21 p281 [[ https://tinyurl.com/333nmr5j | The Chernobyl "Bridge of Death", Truth or Fiction? 2019 June 6]]
 .p096 stories that are "conveniently terrifying"
 .p097 they searched and found nothing
 .p100 ... very little death ... uncomfortable questions ...
 .p100 could it be that radiation is not nearly as terrible as we think?


 .'''p101 ch05 A Strange Glow: How dangerous is radiation?'''
 .p102 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction_coil | Ruhmkorff induction coil ]] 1895 X rays
 .p103 James Garfield died of infection after doctor probed bullet wound with dirty fingres
 .p105 Marie Curie carried radium vial in breast pocket of lab coat
 .p106 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_R%C3%B6ntgen | Röntgen ]] died "penniless" in his country home age 77
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 .'''p119 ch06 Exodus: What should we (not) do after a nuclear accident'''
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  .p285 ch6 n23 [[ https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/mar/21/pro-nuclear-japan-fukushima | Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power]]
  .p286 ch6 n38 [[ https://sg.news.yahoo.com/suicides-stalk-japan-disaster-zone-200211583.html | Suicides stalk Japan disaster zone ]]


 .'''p145 ch07 Peace With the Atomic Bomb: Have nuclear weapons really made the world less safe?'''
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 .'''p165 ch08 Perverse Incentives: Did the nuclear industry start the decline of nuclear energy?'''
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 .'''p189 ch09 Heated: How can nuclear energy combat climate change?'''
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 .'''p215 ch10 Hidden Treasure: What should we do with nuclear waste?'''
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 .'''p234 ch11 Dreaming of Progress: What does the future of nuclear energy look like?'''
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  • 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.


The Power of Nuclear

The Rise, Fall, and Return of our Mightiest Energy Source

Marco Visscher . 2024 . Bvt Lib 333.7924 VIS


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