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Atomic Dreams

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 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

• p107 San Bruno pipeline explosion

• p108 Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility

• 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

• p121 Mary Anne Clare Cummings

• 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

• p162 Californians for Green Nuclear Power Gene Nelson

• 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

• p192 Oklo advanced fission power plant company

• p193 will use reprocessed fuel from Integral Fast Reactor

• p203 Ch18 The Turning Point

• p203 Isabelle Boemeke fashion model, nuclear advocate

• p204 Carolyn C. Porco molten salt thorium reactors

• 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

• p224 Good Energy Collective

• 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

  • n5 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 Greta Thunberg protesting a wind farm

• p249 center-left to left "abundance agenda"

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?

• p049 Uranium Cafe in Grants, NM

• 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?

• p060 Wyhl anti-nuke movement in Kaiserstuhl, Germany

• p061 n10 p278 E. Sternglass Sep 1969 "The Death of All Children"

• p062 David McTaggart 1972 yacht protest, French test cancelled

  • Greenpeace III: Journey into the Bomb

• 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

• p071 fossil-fuelled central capacity was better (coal and gas) because that would greatly benefit national well-being

  • ch3 n34 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 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 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 Röntgen died "penniless" in his country home age 77

• p110 Radium jaw

• p110 Women awarded damages in 1928

• p111 Edison fluoroscope Clarence Dally death 1904

• p114 5000 mSv 50% fatal in months, 1000 mSv burns, 100 mSv some tissue damage

• p115 Ramsar Iran 10 mSv/year average, as much as 260 mSv/year

• p118 ch5 n20 p284 Perhaps we humans lack a specific organ for sensing ionizing radiation simply because we do not need one

• p119 ch06 Exodus: What should we (not) do after a nuclear accident

• p121 March 2011 Fukushima 2011 book Meltdown: Inside the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis

• p121 Japan prime minister Naoto Kan, calm message then emergency and evacuation ... 2km radius, then 10km, then 20

• p122 government monthly allowance for fleeing families
• p123 main health impact non-physical anxiety
• p124 Average first year exposure less than 6 mSv, less than flight attendant annual dose
• p125 zero radiation deaths around Fukushima

• p125 2313 deaths attributed to evacuation and stress in Fukushima prefecture alone

• p126 samosely illegal Chernobyl resettlers fared better than evacuees

• p127 hibukusha survivors shunned

• p132 Strong In The Rain

  • the mundane reality is nothing like wild fear fantasies

• p134 Starving Vrit Keely

• p135 Farmer Hisashi Tarukawa could no longer sell rice, hung himself

  • p285 ch6 n20 Strong in the Rain: Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster p87

  • p285 ch6 n23 Why Fukushima made me stop worrying and love nuclear power

  • p286 ch6 n38 Suicides stalk Japan disaster zone

• p145 ch07 Peace With the Atomic Bomb: Have nuclear weapons really made the world less safe?

• p149 Oppenheimer recommended strong public engagement, otherwise paranoia and magical thinking
• p154 Ukraine Belarus Kazakhstan sold nuclear weapons to Moscow

• p155 Gwyneth Cravens Power to Save the World, U.S. bought 500,000 kg of Russing weapons-grade uranium for power plant fuel

• p156 Alfred Nobel thought "frightful" dynamite would make war impossible

• p157 John Mueller Atomic Obsession

• p158 First Ukraine president Leonid Kravchuk "Had we kept the nuclear weapons, they would have treated us differently now"

• p159 Mueller concludes nuclear weapons are not useful
• p160 300 conventional bombings would have done the same damage to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
• p160 B-29 development ($3B... $54B in 2025 ) far(sic) more expensive than Manhattan project ($2B ... $36B in 2025)
• p160 1945 March Tokyo incendiary bombing, stench awful at bomer altitude
• p161 Hiroshima/Nagasaki, no more than 1000 excess cases of cander
• p162 bomb gave Hirohito excuse to surrender (without war crime trial)

  • 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?

• p174 linear no-threshold hypothesis

  • emerged from Rockefeller Foundation endowed by Standard Oil

  • divestiture announced 2022, before book publication but a century after Hermann Muller's unproven? claim

• p178 ICRP: LNT unlikely to underestimate risk

• p178 Lauriston Taylor 1980 deeply immoral use of our scientific heritage Some nonscientific influences ...

• p179 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ... "are just too dangerous to exist"

• p179 Electricity Generation and Health Lancet 2007 energy saves lives, nuclear by far the safest

• p181 Oppenheimer ... have known sin
• p182 nuclear plants "in need of constant ($400M/plant) modification"
• p183 decommissioning $1.2B

• p183 the revenue model since ALARA

• p184 Muller could have known he was wrong (about LNT) 2012

• p185 Ernst Caspari

• p15 n40 E. Caspari and C. Stern 1948 The influence of chronic irradiation with gamma-rays at low doses on the mutation rate in Drosphila melanogaster

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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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• p261 Epilogue: A feeling of Awe

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• p267 Acknowledgements

• p269 A note on sources

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