Rad Future
The Untold Story of Nuclear Electricity and How it will Save the World
Isabelle Boemeke . 2025 . 333.7924 . Beaverton Lib
.pxiii INTRODUCTION
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
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p010 The Impact
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p011 Infinite Possibility
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PART 2: Alchemy
p019 ch2 HUMANS AND ENERGY
p019 Energy Is the Currency of the Universe
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p022 Energy Timeline
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p029 ch3 FOSSIL FUEL's FINAL BOSS
p031 How Nuclear Reactors Work
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p011 Infinite Possibility
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p031 How Nuclear Reactors Work
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p039 Nuclear is RAD(IANT)
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p053 Nuclear is Natural
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p054 Nuclear Has the Least Impact
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p059 ch4 DISPELLING MYTHS
p061 What About Chernobyl?
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p068 What About Radiation?
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p074 What About Uranium Mining?
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p077 Mining Sucks
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p081 What About Tritium?
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p084 What About Nuclear Waste?
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p096 ch5 DEGROWTH
p097 The Problem with Degrowth
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p102 We Will Need a Lot of Electricity
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p108 ch6 CLEAN ENERGY REVOLUTION
p108 100 Percent rEnEwAble
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p112 Clean Energy
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p117 The Ultimate Energy Diet
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PART 3 DIPLOMACY: FIGHTING A WORLD AGAINST NUCLEAR
p133 ch7 CHANGING TIDES
p133 Nuclear Before Nukes
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p137 Atomic Fervor
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p141 Mixed Feelings
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p143 The Antinuclear Movement
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p151 Grubby Hands
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p158 ch8 THREE DECADES OF BAD ENERGY POLICY
p158 A Tale of Two Decarbonizations
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p163 The Land of Wine, Great Aesthetics, and Nuclear Electricity
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p165 Who Killed Nuclear Electricity?
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p171 ch9 VIBE SHIFT
p185 Gender Gap
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p188 The Nuclear Renaissance
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p193 Small Modular Reactors
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p199 ch10 MANIFESTING A RAD FUTURE
p203 Nuclear Before Nukes
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p209 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
p213 GLOSSARY
p219 NOTES
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