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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

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

  • 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

  • p137 Ch12 The Tribe

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?

  • p055 ch03 Why the resistance to nuclear energy?

  • p081 ch04 Doomed: What went wrong in the world's biggest nuclear disaster?

  • p095 Chernobyl "bridge of death" urban legend
  • 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?

  • 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?

  • 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)

  • p165 ch08 Perverse Incentives: Did the nuclear industry start the decline of nuclear energy?

  • p189 ch09 Heated: How can nuclear energy combat climate change?

  • p191 Svante Arrhenius 1859-1927 1896 divorced/depressed calculated CO₂ effects

  • p192 logarithmic effect: doubling CO₂ increases temperature 4℃
  • p193 plants grow faster in denser CO₂
  • p195 Coal 840g CO₂/KWh, natural gas 490g CO₂/KWh, biomass 230g CO₂/KWh nuclear 12g CO₂/KWh

  • p195 Greenpeace claims no significant savings coal to nuclear

  • p196 Danes and Swedes pay most for green energty

  • p197 while closing nuclear plants, Germans burned more coal, and dismantled a wind farm to expand a coal mine

  • p197 British started Hinkley Point nuclear power station

  • p198 ex-chancellor Gerhard SchröderNord Stream EU paid €100B/y to Russians for coal, gas, and oil

  • p198 EU paid €100B/y to Russians for coal, gas, and oil
  • p199 keeping a nuclear plant open is the cheapest and fastest way to produce ... low-carbon power

  • p200 Tinne Van der Straeten

  • p201 book mentions her support for gas power, Wikipedia mentions her support for nuclear power, added to WP April 2022 after Russian invasion of Ukraine
  • p202 "Opponents pf nuclear power have turned out to be the useful idiots of the world's most polluting industry" hmmm.
  • p203 "Carter has decided that nuclear power was no longer required" hmmm

    • WP: In 1977 ... called for ... carefully controlled expansion of nuclear power.

  • p204 In 2000, the share of solar power in the supply of US electricity was a mere 0.01%

    • And in 2022, when the Dutch edition of this book was first published, the share was 4.7%, a 24.14% year-on-year increase over 2021. That is a doubling every 3 years ... or (extrapolating logaritmically absurdly) 100% in 2035. Ah, the smell of grinding axes.

  • p205 Margaret Thatcher calls for greenhouse gas emission reductions, speaking to the U.N. on November 1989

  • p206 Greenpeace ]senior energy expert Jan Haverkamp 2019 "Sabotaging nuclear is a vital part of any successful attempt to save the climate" ... attribution tenuous

  • p207 Britta Augustin assaulted? video missing, this comment (original is German) in it's place: "Since the original video has strangely disappeared, here is my recording of the physical attack on a #nuclear power supporter amidst approving cheers from the crowd during the #FFF #climatestrike."

  • p208 Naomi Oreskes labels James Hansen as a climate change denier, when he's a "renewables only" skeptic.

  • p209 Frans Timmermans nuclear is very very expensive

  • p211 "the nuclear industry funded the research of Charles Keeling ... uh, no, his initial Mauna Loa CO₂ measurements were funded by the IGY and Scripps

  • p215 ch10 Hidden Treasure: What should we do with nuclear waste?

  • p215 "Olkiluoto" nuclear waste repository

  • p217 1983 moratorium on ocean nuclear waste dumping, 1994 international ban
  • p217 "because of the dilution, no plankton will ever notice"
  • p218 sloppy description of waste radioactivity decay

  • p219 integral fast reactor 1994 cancelled by Clinton

  • p224 bs about bs Jack Devanney Why Nuclear Power Has Been a Flop

  • p224 Sébastien Briat "Darwined" himself on train tracks

  • p225 Local cooperation will decide where waste goes; some communities welcoming

  • p228 Russian BN-800 only deployed breeder reactor

  • p234 ch11 Dreaming of Progress: What does the future of nuclear energy look like?

  • p237 Hydrogen fuel for aircraft?

  • p238 Terrapower 345MWe Natrium molten salt reactor in Kemmerer WY by 2030

  • p239 AP1000

    • p239 Hyman Rickover 1957 Any plant you haven’t built yet is always more efficient than the one you have built. This is obvious. They are all efficient when you haven’t done anything on them, in the talking stage. Then they are all efficient, they are all cheap. They are all easy to build, and none have any problems.
  • p245 uranium in seawater ... fooey. 3.3 μg/liter. Salt is 129 g/L, so uranium is 26 parts per billion of salt. Uranium is 20 parts per million of New Hampshire granite, and 1200 parts per billion (0.12%) of Wyoming granite
  • p248 Monbiot learned to love ... see .p91 note for Atomic Dreams, above
  • p250 "I'm not against nuclear power, I'm against the technology currently in use" - Wim Turkenburg
  • p253 Greta Thunberg attended the same private school as Swedish royal family
  • p254 C. P. Snow:
    • For, of course, one truth is straightforward. Industrialisation is the only hope of the poor. I use the word 'hope' in a crude and prosaic sense. I have not much use for the moral sensibility of anyone who is too refined to use it so. It is all very well for us, sitting pretty, to think that material standards of living don't matter all that much. It is all very well for one, as a personal choice, to reject industrialisation—do a modern Walden, if you like, and if you go without much food, see most of your children die in infancy, despise the comforts of literacy, accept twenty years off your own life, then I respect you for the strength of your aesthetic revulsion.
    • But I don't respect you in the slightest if, even passively, you try to impose the same choice on others who are not free to choose. In fact, we know what their choice would be. For, with singular unanimity, in any country where they have had the chance, the poor have walked off the land into the factories as fast as the factories could take them.”
  • p258 "technofix" 1966 neologism, a recommendation by nuclear physicist Alvin Weinberg

  • p261 Epilogue: A feeling of Awe

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  • p267 Acknowledgements

  • p269 A note on sources

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  • p272 Notes (above)

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