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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

.pxiii INTRODUCTION
pxiv most Amazon fires started by illegal land clearing, but climate change makes them more severe
pxiv Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil gateway to Uruguay☺
px . How Does the Land Use of Different Electricity Sources Compare?
- Hanna Ritchie
- Our World in Data, June 16, 2022v former (NOT NOW) eco-misanthrope, "... humans should go extinct ..."
pxv others David Attenborough
- Steven Hawking - humans chemical scum
  - misunderstood by Boemeke
  - "scum" == very thin and vulnerable biolayer film
  - .. on a vastly larger planet
  - .. in a frighteningly dangerous universe
  - implication: we must grow vastly more capable to protect the Earth
  - some say (including me) "the dinosaurs died because they didn't have a space program"
- #HumansAreTheVirus
pxvi young people pervasive hopelessness
pxvi David Deutsch 2011 The Beginning of Infinity CedarMill 501 DEUTSCH
pxvi every problem is solvable, if we have enough information about it

PART 1: A WHOLE NEW ERA

p003 ch01 THE DAWN OF THE ATOMIC AGE
p005 What Could Have Been
p008 What Actually Happened
p010 The Impact
p011 Infinite Possibility
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
p031 How Nuclear Reactors Work
p039 Nuclear is RAD(IANT)
p042 note p220 Ch03n08
- How Does the Land Use of Different Electricity Sources Compare? Hanna Ritchie, Our World in Data, June 16, 2022
p043 'Land Use per KWh' wrong source, odd units, actual data here, units are m²-year per MWh, equivalent to m² per annual average watts divided by 114

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
- Investigating Benefits and Challenges of Converting Retiring Coal Plants into Nuclear Plants
p053 Nuclear is Natural
p053 Oklo in Gabon . note p221 Ch03n20, Laura Gil August 10, 2018, "Meet Oklo, the Earth's Two-Billion-Year-Old Only Known Natural Nuclear Reactor", International Atomic Energy Agency
p054 Nuclear Has the Least Impact https://tim.blog/2023/03/24/david-deutsch-naval-ravikant-transcript/
p055 Levi Strauss: 73 pounds of CO₂ per pair of jeans
p059 ch4 DISPELLING MYTHS
p061 What About Chernobyl?
p061 1975 Banqiao Dam failure 61 downstream dams failed, thousands killed, 6.8M homes destroyed, ~220K died of famine
p063 note p222 Ch04n06 Hanna Ritchie, What Was the Death Toll from Chernobyl and Fukushima? Our World in Data, July 24, 2017
p064 XX || ||
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- RMBK XX
p068 What About Radiation?
p074 What About Uranium Mining?
p075 note p223 Ch04n23 https://world-nuclear.org/information-library/nuclear-fuel-cycle/mining-of-uranium/environmental-aspects-of-uranium-mining World Nuclear Association, April 10, 2017
p077 Mining Sucks
p081 What About Tritium?
p084 What About Nuclear Waste?
p092 note p224 Ch04n47 . Catherine Clifford CNBC, June 2, 2022 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 Solar Panels are Starting to Die, What Will We Do with the Megatons of Toxic Trash?
p96 ch5 DEGROWTH
p97 The Problem with Degrowth
p101
p102 We Will Need a Lot of Electricity
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p106
p108 ch6 CLEAN ENERGY REVOLUTION
p108 100 Percent rEnEwAble
p108
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p112 Clean Energy
p112
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p115
p117 The Ultimate Energy Diet
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p122

PART 3 DIPLOMACY: FIGHTING A WORLD AGAINST NUCLEAR

p133 ch7 CHANGING TIDES
p133 Nuclear Before Nukes
p134
p135
p136
p137 Atomic Fervor
p141 Mixed Feelings
p141
.p92 note p224 Ch04n47
p93 note p224 Ch04n48 p133
p143 The Antinuclear Movement
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p148
p151 Grubby Hands
p151
p152
p152 .p75 note p223 Ch04n23
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p158 ch08 THREE DECADES OF BAD ENERGY POLICY
p158 A Tale of Two Decarbonizations
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p163
p163 The Land of Wine, Great Aesthetics, and Nuclear Electricity
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p165 Who Killed Nuclear Electricity?
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p169
p63 note p222 Ch04n06
p171 ch9 VIBE SHIFT
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p185 Gender Gap
p187
p188 The Nuclear Renaissance
p193 Small Modular Reactors
p199 ch10 MANIFESTING A RAD FUTURE
p200
p203 Nuclear Before Nukes
p206 organization
p209 Nick Touran What is Nuclear?
p213 GLOSSARY
p219 NOTES
p75 note p223 Ch04n23
p92 note p224 Ch04n47
p93 note p224 Ch04n48
p105 note p225 Ch05n13
p109 note p226 Ch06n02
p120 note p226 Ch06n11
p120 note p226 Ch06n13
p135 note p227 Ch07n02
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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 .pxv  former (NOT NOW) eco-misanthrope, "... humans should go extinct ..."
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 .px     . How Does the Land Use of Different Electricity Sources Compare?
   . [[ https://ourworldindata.org/land-use-per-energy-source | Hanna Ritchie ]]
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 .''p039 Nuclear is RAD( .p42  note p221 Ch03n20IANT)'' 
 .p042  note p220 Ch03n08
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 .''p039 Nuclear is RAD(IANT)'' 

 .p042  note p220 Ch03n08
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|| methane gas + CCS           || 1.3 m² ||
|| hydropower > 660MW          ||  14 m² ||
|| Solar PV                    ||  19 m² ||
|| Coal power + CCS            ||  21 m² ||
|| Small hydropower < 360MW    ||  33 m² ||
|| Onshore Wind                ||  99 m² ||
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 .Onshore wind not lis.p42  note p221 Ch03n20ted 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. .p49  note p220 Ch03n13 
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+||<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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 .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 and Fukushima? ]] Our World in Data, July 24, 2017
 
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   . Our World in Data, June 16, 2022
 .''p084 What About Nuclear Waste?'' 

 .'''p096 ch5  DEGROWTH''' 
 .''p097 The Problem with Degrowth''
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 .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''' 

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