The Nuclear Environmentalist Is There a Green Road to Nuclear Energy? /

• Main Author: Gomez Cadenas, Juan José (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Milano : Springer Milan : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Renewable energy resources.; Nuclear energy.; Nuclear physics.; Popular works.; Renewable energy sources.; Alternate energy sources.; Green energy industries.; Renewable and Green Energy.; Nuclear Energy.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.; Popular Science, general.

The general public has many misconceptions concerning energy sources; for example, how many realise that a nuclear power station releases more radioactivity into the atmosphere than a coal-fired power station, or that smoking just one cigarette carries the same risk as living next door to a nuclear...

Table of Contents:

• Not everything that shines is green
• Eternal delight
• A squandered inheritance
• The ignoble fuel
• Manna that springs from the Earth
• Holy flame
• Inside the Nautilus
• Inheritance from the Supernova
• Nuclear reactors
• Nuclear energy, no thanks?- The antinuclear litany
• Helios & Eolo
• At the crossroads.