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  . 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

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 [[ https:

//en.wikipedia.oof rg/wiki/David_Deutsch | David Deutsch ]] 2011 The Beginning of Infinity CedarMill 501 DEUTSCH

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

  • 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 power + CCS

21 m²

Small hydropower < 360MW

33 m²

Onshore Wind

99 m²

PART 3 DIPLOMACY: FIGHTING A WORLD AGAINST NUCLEAR

  • p133 ch7 CHANGING TIDES

  • p133 Nuclear Before Nukes

  • p133
  • p134
  • p135
  • p136
  • p137 Atomic Fervor

  • p141 Mixed Feelings

  • p141
  • 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 Decarbonizations

  • p159
  • p160
  • p161
  • p161
  • p163
  • p63 note p222 Ch04n06
  • p75 note p223 Ch04n23
  • p92 note p224 Ch04n47
  • p93 note p224 Ch04n48
  • p163 The Land of Wine, Great Aesthetics, and Nuclear Electricity

  • p163
  • p165
  • p165 Who Killed Nuclear Electricity?

  • p167
  • p167
  • p169
  • p63 note p222 Ch04n06
  • p171 ch9 VIBE SHIFT

  • p171
  • p171
  • p173
  • p175
  • p175
  • p176
  • p177
  • p177 .p42 note p221 Ch03n20
  • p178
  • p182
  • p183
  • p183
  • 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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