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 .pxv former (NOT NOW) eco-misanthrope, "... humans should go extinct ..."
 .pxv others [[ https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/05/18/the-anti-humanism-of-david-attenborough/ | David Attenborough ]]   [[ https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/523470-the-human-race-is-just-a-chemical-scum-on-a  | Steven Hawking - humans chemical scum (misunderstood - thin biolayer on a vastly larger planet) ]] [[ https://blogs.bard.edu/cepblog/?p=11973 | #HumansAreTheVirus ]]
 .pxvi young people pervasive hopelessness 		 .px     . How Does the Land Use of Different Electricity Sources Compare?
   . [[ https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-per-energy-source | Hanna Ritchie ]]
   . Our World in Data, June 16, 2022v former (NOT NOW) eco-misanthrope, "... humans should go extinct ..."
 .pxv others [[ https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/05/18/the-anti-humanism-of-david-attenborough/ | David Attenborough ]]
  .[[ https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/523470-the-human-race-is-just-a-chemical-scum-on-a | Steven Hawking - humans chemical scum ]]
   .misunderstood by Boemeke
   ."scum" == very thin and vulnerable biolayer film
   ... on a vastly larger planet
   ... in a frighteningly dangero .p120 note p226 Ch06n11 us universe
   .implication: we must gEnvironmental Aspects of Uranium Mining | row vastly more capable to '''protect''' the Earth
   .some say (including me) "the dinosaurs died because they didn't have a space program"
  .[[ https://blogs.bard.edu/cepblog/?p=11973 | #HumansAreTheVirus ]]
 .pxvi young people pervasive hopelessness www.c
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 .pxvi [[ https://www.antoinebuteau.com/lessons-from||-david-deutsch/ | every problem is solvable, if we have enough information about it ]]  .pxvi [[ https://www.antoinebuteau.com/lessons-from-david-deutsch/ | every problem is solvable, if we have enough information about it  ]]
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 .p013 . [[ https://tim.blog/2023/03/24/david-deutsch-naval-ravikant-transcript/ore | ''pragmatic'' optimism  ]] 		 .''p011 Infinite Possibility''  .p120 note p226 Ch06n11

 .p013 . [[ https://tim.blog/2023/03/24/david-deutsch-naval-ravikant-transcript/ore | ''pragmatic'' optimism ]]
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   . [[ https://ourworldindata.org .p120 note p226 Ch06n11 /land-use-per-energy-source | How Does the Land Use of Different Electricity Sources Compare? ]] Hanna Ritchie, Our World in Data, June 16, 2022
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|| nuclear || 0.3 m² ||
|| methane gas + CCS || 1.3 m² ||
|| hydropower > 660MW || 14 m² ||
|| Solar PV || 19 m² ||
|| Coal power + CCS || 21 m² ||
|| SCh0mall hydropower < 360MW || 33 m² ||
|| Onshore Wind || 99 m² ||

 .Onshore wind not listed in source, this is presumably spacing of the wind turbines. The land underneath is probably not safe for human dwellings, but it can still be used for agriculture, PV, hydro reservoir, or landfill.
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 .p053 note p221 Ch03n19 		||<style="text-align: center;"> nuclear || 0.3 m² ||
|| methane gas + CCS           || 1.3 m² ||
|| hydropower > 660MW           || 14 m² ||
|| Solar PV           || 19 m² ||
|| Coal pow0er + CCS          || 21 m² ||
|| Small hydropower < 360MW              || 33 m² ||
|| Onshore Wind           || 99 m² ||

 .Onshore wind not listed in source, this is presumably spacing of the wind turbines. The land underneath is probably not safe for human dwellings, but it can still be used for agriculture, PV, hydro reservoir, or landfill.  
 .p049 80% of 400 soon-to-be-shut-down coal plants can be converted to nuclear plants
 .p049 note p220 Ch03n13 . Idaho National Laboratory, 2022
  . [[ https://fuelcycleoptions.inl.gov/SiteAssets/SitePages/Home/C2N2022Report.pdf | Investigating Benefits and Challenges of Converting Retiring Coal Plants into Nuclear Plants ]]
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 .p053 note p221 Ch03 20  .p053 Oklo in Gabon . note p221 Ch03n20, Laura Gil August 10, 2018, [[ https://iaea.org/newscenter/news/meet-oklo-the-earths-two-billion-year-old-only-known-natural-nuclear-reactor | "Meet Oklo, the Earth's Two-Billion-Year-Old Only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor" ]], International Atomic Energy Agency
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 .p061  .p061 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Banqiao_Dam_failure | 1975 Banqiao Dam failure ]] 61 downstream dams failed, thousands killed, 6.8M homes destroyed, ~220K died of famine

 .p063 note p222 Ch04n06 Hanna Ritchie, [[ https://ourworldindata.org/what-was-the-death-toll-from-chernobyl-and-fukushima | What Was the Death Toll from Chernobyl .p120 note p226 Ch06n11 and Fukushima? ]] Our World in Data, July 24, 2017
 
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 .''p074 What About Uranium Mining?''

 .''p074 What About Uranium Mining?''
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 .''p084 What About Nuclear Waste?''

 .'''p096 ch5 DEGROWTH'''
 .''p097 The Problem with Degrowth''
 .''p084 What About Nuclear Waste?''

 .p092 note p224 Ch04n47 . Catherine Clifford CNBC, June 2, 2022 [[ https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/02/nuclear-waste-us-could-power-the-us-for-100-years.html | The Energy in Nuclear Waste Could Power the U.S. for 100 years, but the Technology Was Never Commercialized ]]

 .p093 note p224 Ch04n48 . Maddie Stone Grist, August 13, 2020 [[ https://grist.org/energy/solar-panels-are-starting-to-die-what-will-we-do-with-the-megatons-of-toxic-trash | Solar Panels are Starting to Die, What Will We Do with the Megatons of Toxic Trash? ]]

 .'''p96 ch5 DEGROWTH'''

 .''p97 The Problem with Degrowth''
 
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 .p53 note p221 Ch03n20 ch8 THREE DECADES OF BAD ENERGY POLICY'''
 .''p158 A Tale of Two Decarbonizations'' 		 .'''p158 ch08 THREE DECADES OF BAD ENERGY POLICY'''

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Rad Future

The Untold Story of Nuclear Electricity and How it will Save the World

Isabelle Boemeke . 2025 . 333.7924 . Beaverton Lib

PART 1: A WHOLE NEW ERA

  • p003 ch01 THE DAWN OF THE ATOMIC AGE

  • p005 What Could Have Been

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  • p008 What Actually Happened

  • p010 The Impact

  • p011 Infinite Possibility .p120 note p226 Ch06n11

  • p013 . ''pragmatic'' optimism

PART 2: Alchemy

  • p019 ch2 HUMANS AND ENERGY

  • p019 Energy Is the Currency of the Universe

, International Atomic Energy Agency

  • p022 Energy Timeline

  • p029 ch3 FOSSIL FUEL's FINAL BOSS

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nuclear

0.3 m²

methane gas + CCS

1.3 m²

hydropower > 660MW

14 m²

Solar PV

19 m²

Coal pow0er + CCS

21 m²

Small hydropower < 360MW

33 m²

Onshore Wind

99 m²

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  • p117 The Ultimate Energy Diet

  • p117
  • p120
  • p120
  • p120 note p226 Ch06n11
  • p122

PART 3 DIPLOMACY: FIGHTING A WORLD AGAINST NUCLEAR

  • p133 ch7 CHANGING TIDES

  • p133 Nuclear Before Environmental Aspects of Uranium Mining | Nukes

  • p134
  • p135
  • p136

  • p137 Atomic Fervor

  • p141 Mixed Feelings

  • p141 74 new reactors worldwide from 1960 to 1970

  • p143 The Antinuclear Movement

  • p147
  • p148
  • p148

  • p151 Grubby Hands

  • p151
  • p152
  • p152
  • p154
  • p154

  • p158 ch08 THREE DECADES OF BAD ENERGY POLICY

  • p158 A Tale of Two DecarbonizatiEnvironmental Aspects of Uranium Mining | ons

  • p159
  • p160
  • p161
  • p161

  • p163 The Land of Wine, Great Aesthetics, and Nuclear Electricity

  • p163
  • p165

  • p165 Who Killed Nuclear Electricity?

  • p167
  • p167
  • p169

  • p171 ch9 VIBE SHIFT

  • p171
  • p171
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  • p185 Gender Gap

  • p187

  • p188 The Nuclear Renaissance

  • p193 Small Modular Reactors

  • p199 ch10 MANIFESTING A RAD FUTURE

  • p200 .p75 note p223 Ch04n23

  • p203 Nuclear Before Nukes

  • p206 organization

  • p209 Nick Touran What is Nuclear?

  • p213 GLOSSARY

  • p219 NOTES

  • p120 note p226 Ch06n13
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  • p147 note p227 Ch07n03
  • p152 note p227 Ch07n09
  • p154 note p228 Ch07n11
  • p161 note p229 Ch09n04
  • p161 note p229 Ch09n07
  • p165 note p229 Ch09n12

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