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?
- Our World in Data, June 16, 2022v former (NOT NOW) eco-misanthrope, "... humans should go extinct ..."
pxv others David Attenborough
[[ https://www.go.p92 note p224 Ch04n47
- 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"
- pxvi young people pervasive hopelessness www.c
pxvi David Deutsch 2011 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beginning_.p92 note p224 Ch04n47
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
p120 note p226 Ch06n11 of_Infinity | The Beginning of Infinity ]] CedarMill 501 DEUTSCH
p005 What Could Have Been
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p008 What Actually Happened
p010 The Impact'.p92 note p224 Ch04n47
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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
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p022 Energy Timeline
p029 ch3 FOSSIL FUEL's FINAL BOSS
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p031 How Nuclear Reactors Work
p039 Nuclear is RAD(IANT)
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- p120 note p226 Ch06n11 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 |
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p120 note p226 Ch06n11 || 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
p053 Nuclear is Natural
- p053 Oklo in Gabon.p92 note p224 Ch04n47
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p120 note p226 Ch06n11 . 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 .p120 note p226 Ch06n11 and Fukushima? Our World in Data, July 24, 2017
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p068 What About Radiation?
p074 What About Uranium Mining?
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p077 Mining Sucks
p081 What About Tritium?
p084 What About Nuclear Waste?
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p120 note p226 Ch06n11 4n47 . Catherine Clifford CNBC, June 2, 2022 The Energy in Nuclear Waste Could Power the U.S. for 100 years, but the Technology Was Never Commerciali .p120 note p226 Ch06n13zed
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
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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 Environmental Aspects of Uranium Mining | Nukes
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p137 Atomic Fervor
p141 Mixed Feelings
- p141 74 new reactors worldwide from 1960 to 1970
p143 The Antinuclear Movement
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p151 Grubby Hands
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p158 ch08 THREE DECADES OF BAD ENERGY POLICY
p158 A Tale of Two DecarbonizatiEnvironmental Aspects of Uranium Mining | ons
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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
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p185 Gender Gap
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p188 The Nuclear Renaissance
p193 Small Modular Reactors
p199 ch10 MANIFESTING A RAD FUTURE
p203 Nuclear Before Nukes
p206 organization
p213 GLOSSARY
p219 NOTES
