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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 [[ 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" ]] ------ == 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 [[ 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 .p110 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_jaw | Radium jaw ]] .p110 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls#Litigation | Women awarded damages in 1928 ]] .p111 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray#History | Edison fluoroscope ]] [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Madison_Dally | Clarence Dally death 1904 ]] .p114 5000 mSv 50% fatal in months, 1000 mSv burns, 100 mSv some tissue damage .p115 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsar,_Iran | Ramsar Iran ]] 10 mSv/year average, as much as 260 mSv/year .p118 ch5 n20 p284 [[ https://books.google.nl/books?id=fCWKClWP_TwC&pg=PA100&lpg=PA100&dq=jaworowski+%22perhaps+we+humans+lack+a+specific+organ+for+sensing+ionizing+radiation+simply+because+we+do+not+need+one.%E2%80%9D&source=bl&ots=oCcUWqPAR4&sig=ACfU3U3xAX2G_LKrVguNuto65-r8GA4aQQ&hl=nl&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiwo6eBzrX5AhWqi_0HHVINCXsQ6AF6BAgCEAM#v=onepage&q=jaworowski%20%22perhaps%20we%20humans%20lack%20a%20specific%20organ%20for%20sensing%20ionizing%20radiation%20simply%20because%20we%20do%20not%20need%20one.%E2%80%9D&f=false | 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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naoto_Kan | 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 [[ https://tinyurl.com/4wenp35t | 2313 deaths attributed to evacuation and stress in Fukushima prefecture alone ]] .p126 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samosely | samosely ]] illegal Chernobyl resettlers fared better than evacuees .p127 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibakusha | hibukusha ]] survivors shunned .p132 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_in_the_Rain | Strong In The Rain ]] . the mundane reality is nothing like wild fear fantasies .p134 [[ https://mtokyoblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/good-on-you.html | Starving Vrit Keely ]] .p135 [[ https://www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-news/tepco-admits-culpability-in-fukushima-farmers-suicide-japan/ | Farmer Hisashi Tarukawa could no longer sell rice, hung himself ]] .p285 ch6 n20 [[ https://multcolib.bibliocommons.com/v2/search?query=Strong%20in%20the%20Rain%3A%20Surviving%20Japan%27s%20Earthquake%2C%20Tsunami%2C%20and%20Fukushima%20Nuclear%20Disaster&searchType=title | Strong in the Rain: Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster p87 ]] .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?''' ---- .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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mueller | John Mueller ]] [[ https://archive.org/details/atomicobsessionn00muel | Atomic Obsession ]] .p158 First Ukraine president [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Kravchuk | 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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_no-threshold_model | linear no-threshold hypothesis ]] . emerged from [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockefeller_Foundation | Rockefeller Foundation ]] endowed by Standard Oil . divestiture announced 2022, before book publication but a century after [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Joseph_Muller | Hermann Muller's unproven? claim ]] .p178 ICRP: LNT unlikely to underestimate risk .p178 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauriston_S._Taylor | Lauriston Taylor ]] 1980 deeply immoral use of our scientific heritage [[ https://tinyurl.com/23c7apfc | Some nonscientific influences ... ]] .p179 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_of_the_Atomic_Scientists | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ]] ... "are just too dangerous to exist" .p179 [[ https://tinyurl.com/mutp9b5x | 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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_low_as_reasonably_practicable | ALARA ]] .p184 Muller could have known he was wrong (about LNT) [[ https://tinyurl.com/vmmhydfmCalabrese | 2012 ]] .p185 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Caspari | Ernst Caspari ]] .p15 n40 E. Caspari and C. Stern 1948 [[ https://tinyurl.com/yeytv76u | The influence of chronic irradiation with gamma-rays at low doses on the mutation rate in Drosphila melanogaster ]] ------ .'''p189 ch09 Heated: How can nuclear energy combat climate change?''' ---- .p191 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svante_Arrhenius | 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 [[https://tinyurl.com/mt7bj6pj | Greenpeace claims no significant savings ]] coal to nuclear .p196 [[ https://tinyurl.com/yd7se27n | 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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_station | Hinkley Point ]] nuclear power station .p198 ex-chancellor [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_Schr%C3%B6der | Gerhard Schröder ]][[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_Stream_AG | Nord 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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinne_Van_der_Straeten | 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 . [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Jimmy_Carter#National_Energy_Act | 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 [[ https://nec2018.jadernaenergetika.eu/en/speakers/108-jan-haverkamp.html | Jan Haverkamp ]] 2019 [[ https://tinyurl.com/mreutpbp | "Sabotaging nuclear is a vital part of any successful attempt to save the climate" ]] ... attribution tenuous .p207 [[ https://tinyurl.com/mhch8r78 | 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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Oreskes | Naomi Oreskes ]] labels [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hansen | James Hansen ]] as a climate change denier, when he's a "renewables only" skeptic. .p209 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Timmermans | Frans Timmermans ]] [[ https://tinyurl.com/muk7jkuz | nuclear is very very expensive ]] .p211 "the nuclear industry funded the research of [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_David_Keeling | Charles Keeling ]] ... uh, no, his initial Mauna Loa CO₂ measurements were funded by the [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Geophysical_Year | IGY ]] and [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scripps_Institution_of_Oceanography | Scripps ]] ------ .'''p215 ch10 Hidden Treasure: What should we do with nuclear waste?''' ---- .p215 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onkalo_spent_nuclear_fuel_repository | "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 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_fast_reactor | integral fast reactor ]] 1994 cancelled by Clinton .p224 bs about bs [[ https://gordianknotbook.com/author/ | Jack Devanney Why Nuclear Power Has Been a Flop ]] .p224 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_S%C3%A9bastien_Briat | Sébastien Briat ]] "Darwined" himself on train tracks .p225 Local cooperation will decide where waste goes; some communities welcoming .p228 Russian [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BN-800_reactor | BN-800 ]] only deployed breeder reactor ------ .'''p234 ch11 Dreaming of Progress: What does the future of nuclear energy look like?''' ---- .p237 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen-powered_aircraft | Hydrogen fuel for aircraft? ]] .p238 [[ https://www.terrapower.com/ | Terrapower ]] 345MWe [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TerraPower#Sodium_fast_reactor_(Natrium) | Natrium molten salt reactor ]] in Kemmerer WY by 2030 .p239 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP1000 | 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''' ---- [[ https://tinyurl.com/ .p261 Author was antinuclear in 2000 .p262 [[ https://tinyurl.com/2p3ymabc | Chernobyl radiation ... ]] [[ https://tinyurl.com/y3jtzvm2 | ... Radiation Spikes ]] .p264 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zaporizhzhia_Nuclear_Power_Plant | Zaporizhzhia ]] safer than Fukushima .p265 [[ https://tinyurl.com/4nmtjz9t | IAEA 'Nuclear Safety, Security, and Safeguards in Ukraine ... September 2022 ]] ------ .'''p267 Acknowledgements''' ------ .'''p269 A note on sources''' --- .p269 [[ https://www.statista.com/ | Statista ]] [[ https://ourworldindata.org/ | Our World in Data ]] .p269 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_R._Weart | Spencer Weart ]] [[ https://www.academia.edu/6368230/Spencer_R_Weart_The_Rise_of_Nuclear_Fear | The Rise of Nuclear Fear ]] [[ https://history.aip.org/climate/index.htm | The Discovery of Global Warming ]] .p270 [[ https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ | Atomic Heritage Foundation ]] .p270 [[ https://archive.org/details/atomicobsessionn00muel | Atomic Obsession ]] 2010 John Mueller .p270 [[ https://thinkatom.net/author/kaikenhuippu/ | Rauli Partanen ]] [[ https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/janne-korhonen | Janne Korhonen ]] .p271 [[ https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7476706.James_Mahaffey | James A, Mahaffey ]] Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima .p271 [[ https://ihj.global/en/leadership/leadership-1640/ | Yoichi Funabashi ]] [[ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57356766-meltdown?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=Y9ThxZd68t&rank=1 | Meltdown: Inside the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis ]] ------ .'''p272 Notes''' (above) ----