Thorium Power Books
No Thorium
http://www.facebook.com/nothorium
Liquid fluoride thorium reactor Wiki
http://q.gs/3IOuQ
Molten salt reactor Wiki
http://q.gs/3IOub
Ten Myths About Thorium As A Nuclear Energy Solution
http://goo.gl/9uZXpa
Dr. Caldicott MD; Radioactive Thorium Dangers, Half Life, Health Hazards
12/12/2012
http://q.gs/30mui
Proliferation Warnings On Nuclear 'Wonder-Fuel', Thorium
Dec. 5, 2012
http://q.gs/39x6b
Is the "Superfuel" Thorium Riskier Than We Thought?
A new study in Nature says that using thorium as a nuclear fuel has a higher risk for proliferation into
12/05/2012
http://goo.gl/XTIKdL
Thorium Reactors?
12/2012
The latest nuclear power industry proposals focus on smaller reactors and the possibility of thorium fueled reactors. As the nuclear industry explores other fission products, Fairewinds Energy Education has been peppered with hundreds of questions regarding the feasibility and safety of thorium reactors that the nuclear industry is touting as a newer safer form of nuclear power.
http://q.gs/2p0Kc
http://www.facebook.com/nukefree/posts/398406840240895
Thorium nuclear reactors NOT clean, NOT safe, NOT cheap
nuclear weapons are involved at the very BEGINNING of thorium reactors, because you cannot get the thorium reactor started without mixing the thorium with some weapons-explosive material — either plutonium or highly enriched uranium.
11/04/2012
http://q.gs/37aUM
Why Thorium Nuclear Isn’t Featured on CleanTechnica
September 11, 2012 Zachary Shahan
http://q.gs/38krR
Thorium: Not Green, Not Viable and Not Likely, Oliver Tickell
June 2012
http://q.gs/37aQc
Safe nuclear: Let the thorium debate begin
By Mark Halper | May 11, 2012
http://q.gs/2WfGH
Is Thorium A Magic Bullet For Our Energy Problems?
5/04/2012
http://q.gs/2WfHK
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Safe nuclear: UK eyes thorium
By Mark Halper | May 18, 2012
http://q.gs/2WfIM
Safe nuclear: India’s thorium reactor
By Mark Halper | May 8, 2012
http://goo.gl/nPE3G3
Nuclear Energy Accidents May Become Thing of Past
4/18/2012
Ken Silverstein, Contributor
http://goo.gl/rvUNE9
Nuclear safety and security demand thorium
By John Sales April 3, 2012
http://www.timesargus.com/article/20120403/OPINION04/704039949
Can using thorium instead of uranium make nuclear energy safer?
By E - The Environmental Magazine
Nov. 26, 2011
http://goo.gl/skurff
Can Thorium Generate Safe and Cheap Nuclear Power?
Can uranium be replaced in the nuclear industry?
DEREK MEAD: NOVEMBER 14, 2011
http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/Can-Thorium-Generate-Safer-Nuclear-Power/
India plans 'safer' nuclear plant powered by thorium
Use of relatively low-carbon, low-radioactivity thorium instead of uranium may be breakthrough in energy generation
1 November 2011
http://goo.gl/xFj02p
Thorium, Not The Nuclear Savior Claimed
September 14th, 2011
http://houseoffoust.com/group/?p=3101
Don't believe the spin on thorium being a greener nuclear option
Ecologist: It produces less radioactive waste and more power but it remains unproven on a commercial scale
6/23/2011
http://goo.gl/PpTn2d
Could thorium make nuclear power safe?
3/28/2011
http://news.yahoo.com/s/theweek/20110328/cm_theweek/213611
Could thorium make nuclear power safe?
The world can have cheap nuclear power without Japan-level risks by swapping thorium for uranium, some scientists claim. Is that too good to be true?
3/28/2011
http://theweek.com/article/index/213611/could-thorium-make-nuclear-power-safe
Safe nuclear does exist, and China is leading the way with thorium
3/20/2011
http://q.gs/2WfKQ
Energy From Thorium: A Nuclear Waste Burning Liquid Salt Thorium Reactor
Jul 23, 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZR0UKxNPh8
Thorium is not an environmentally safe alternative type of nuclear energy, Norwegian report says
10/20/2008
http://q.gs/4v3PA
Energy From Thorium Discussion Forum
http://q.gs/2Wgx0
Nuclear energy dangerous to your wallet, not only the environment
10/31/2013
http://goo.gl/Tfq7Ea
Fukushima nuclear plant operators prepare for dangerous procedure
Hundreds of radioactive rods must be removed at Fukushima without exposing them to air
27 October, 2013
http://goo.gl/4wKBE9
The evidence is clear: Fukushima radiation is still tearing up West Coast of USA
October 27, 2013
http://goo.gl/a0NjhI
Scotland irked by British nuclear power plans
Oct. 22, 2013
http://goo.gl/yHZQRq
Fear vs. Radiation: The Mismatch
By DAVID ROPEIK
October 21, 2013
http://goo.gl/9fj2wH
Fukushima proved turn-off point for nuclear power
The Japanese disaster made many reject the nuclear option, but China's need to replace fossil fuels has kept its hopes alive
21 October 2013
http://goo.gl/tNSiaC
Nuclear Power Nuclear Energy Articles
Reasons Against or Oppose Nuclear Power Plants
http://nuke6.blogspot.com/2012/09/reasons-against-or-oppose-nuclear-power.html
11 Facts About The Ongoing Fukushima Nuclear Holocaust That Are Almost Too Horrifying To Believe
8/20/2013
http://goo.gl/blnCGK
Were you outraged??
4/23/2012
http://www.facebook.com/nuclearfree/posts/424779630874588
The Nuclear Industry and Fukushima: A Giant Nail in the Coffin of Humanity
5/12/2012
http://q.gs/1iGdU
Fukushima anniversary reminds us there are better options than nuclear
3/12/2012
http://goo.gl/T8ljww
Climate Spectator: What's really wrong with nuclear?
2/27/2012
http://nuke6.blogspot.com/2012/02/climate-spectator-whats-really-wrong.html
Reprocessing: Mythology versus Reality
2/2012
http://q.gs/1iGeu
Electricity Cost Comparisons Different Power Sources
http://nuke6.blogspot.com/2011/10/electricity-cost-comparisons-different.html
Nuclear Energy: Good or Bad?
1/05/2009
http://q.gs/1iGgX
Nuclear Power, a Viable Option for Clean Energy (+ all comments)
3/02/2009
http://q.gs/1iGli
Worst Alternative Energy Sources Receive Most Attention
http://www.naturalnews.com/025592_power_carbon_fuel.html
Activists tell EU Parliament 'there is no solution for nuclear waste'
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/multimedia/photos/Activists-tell-EU-Parliament-there-is-no-solution-for-nuclear-waste/
Kids Living Near Nuclear Power Plants Have Much Higher Rates of Cancer
http://www.naturalnews.com/023678.html
33% Renewable Energy is Goal for California
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/33-renewable-energy-is-goal-for-california-2.html
Entire Texas Town Could be Solar Powered
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/entire-texas-town-could-be-solar-powered.html
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Depleted Uranium Shells Used by U.S. Military Worse Than Nuclear Weapons
http://www.naturalnews.com/023274_military_depleted_uranium_US.html
Poisoning Our Own Troops with Depleted Uranium
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2000/09/17/uranium.aspx
Hospitals Become Major Source of Nuclear Waste
http://www.naturalnews.com/025711.html
Greenpeace urges the Chief Executive to “take the right route” against the climate crisis
September 22, 2010
http://www.greenpeace.org/china/en/press/release/carfreeday-donald02
Greenpeace condemns Hong Kong’s nuclear expansion the wrong track
September 10, 2010
http://www.greenpeace.org/china/en/press/release/low-carbon-high-nuclear
Nuclear Power Myths Nuclear Energy Pros and Cons Advantages Good or Bad Anti Nuclear
http://easss.com/nuclear/myths
22 years after Chernobyl, the nuclear industry remains mired in accidents, cover-ups and incompetence
Press release
April 24, 2008
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/releases/22-years-after-chernobyl/
Nuclear Debate: A Dangerous Distraction
12/18/2009
We can't bet on nuclear energy to replace fossil fuels, says Jan Beránek, leader of Greenpeace’s nuclear energy campaign. It is too dirty, dangerous, and costly, and is a distraction from real climate solutions.
http://knowledge.allianz.com/en/globalissues/energy_co2/fossil_fuels/nuclear_energy_debate_climate_solution_anti/article724.html
Nuclear News: Radiation Expert Worried Over Renaissance in Nuclear Power
April 29, 2010
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/Blogs/nuclear-reaction/nuclear-news-radiation-expert-worried-over-re/blog/11670
What Nuclear Renaissance?
By Christian Parenti
Source: The NationThursday, May 01, 2008
http://www.zcommunications.org/what-nuclear-renaissance-by-christian-parenti
What To Do With Zombie Nuke Plants
Christian Parenti: Thirty Years Affter The Three Mile Island Partial Meltdown, Old Plants Pose The Real Nuclear Power Threat
November 24, 2009
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/24/opinion/main5760218.shtml
The main cause of global warming
http://timeforchange.org/main-cause-of-global-warming-solutions
Is nuclear power a global warming solution?
Are there any ways to prevent global warming?
http://timeforchange.org/pros-cons-nuclear-power-global-warming-solution
CO2 emission of electricity from nuclear power stations
How much CO2 is produced by atomic energy?
http://timeforchange.org/co2-emission-nuclear-power-stations-electricity
Pros and cons of nuclear power
http://timeforchange.org/pros-and-cons-of-nuclear-power-and-sustainability
About the cost advantage of nuclear energy
http://timeforchange.org/cost-advantage-of-nuclear-energy-pros-cons
New Finish nuclear power plant Olkiluoto with enormous financial losses
http://timeforchange.org/new-finish-nuclear-power-plant-olkiluoto-enormous-financial-losses
Nuclear power phase-out pros and cons
http://timeforchange.org/nuclear-power-phase-out-pros-and-cons
Solar, not nuclear energy
http://timeforchange.org/solar-not-nuclear-energy
New Book Shows U.S. Carbon Dioxide Emissions Can be Completely Eliminated by 2050
A Roadmap for U.S. Global Climate Change Leadership after Bali Conference
Nuclear Power Is Not Needed for an Economical and Reliable Energy System without Fossil Fuels
Dec. 20, 2007
http://www.ieer.org/carbonfree/pressrelease2.html
Carbon-Free And Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy [Paperback]
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/157143173X/govindasbookstor
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Where Science and Democracy Meet
http://www.ieer.org/
Trapping Carbon Dioxide Or Switching To Nuclear Power Not Enough To Solve Global Warming Problem, Experts Say
ScienceDaily (July 13, 2009)
The researchers also point out a flaw in the nuclear energy argument. Although nuclear power does not produce carbon dioxide emissions in the same way as burning fossil fuels it does produce heat emissions equivalent to three times the energy of the electricity it generates and so contributes to global warming significantly, Nordell adds.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090713085248.htm
What is the carbon footprint of nuclear energy?
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_the_carbon_footprint_of_nuclear_energy
New Nuclear - the Economics Say No
14 November 2009
https://www.citigroupgeo.com/pdf/SEU27102.pdf
http://nuclear-news.net/2009/11/14/citigroup-reports-on-nuclear-economics-thecorporate-killer/
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=50308
Zero Carbon Australia 2020 Stationary Energy Plan
Cutting-edge research, which shows how Australia can reach 100% renewable energy within a decade, using technology that is commercially available right now.
http://beyondzeroemissions.org/zero-carbon-australia-2020
http://beyondzeroemissions.org/
The question: should nuclear energy power our future?
November 29, 2010
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/the-question-should-nuclear-energy-power-our-future-20101129-18cro.html
Nuclear's CO2 cost 'will climb'
By Paul Rincon
Science reporter, BBC News
30 April 2008
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7371645.stm
5 Environmental Crises To Care About
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/5-environmental-crises-to-pay-attention-to.html
Eco-problems (of Many) Al Gore May Never Make a Movie About (But Should)
1. Nuclear Waste
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/5-environmental-crises-to-pay-attention-to.html?page=2
Ten Strikes Against Nuclear Power
http://www.greenamerica.org/programs/climate/dirtyenergy/nuclear.cfm
Nuclear Power Expansion in China Stirs Concerns
By KEITH BRADSHER
December 15, 2009
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/business/global/16chinanuke.html?_r=2
Nuclear Power
Since the early 1990s, NC WARN has watch-dogged the state’s nuclear power industry over its “low-level” and high-level waste practices, along with reactor safety and security issues.
http://www.ncwarn.org/?cat=18
Want Sustainable Energy? Tell Your Power Company
http://www.care2.com/greenliving/alternative-energy-just-ask.html
Debate: Does the world need nuclear energy?
TALKS Video
http://www.ted.com/talks/debate_does_the_world_need_nuclear_energy.html
Nuclear power: the energy crisis has even die-hard environmentalists reconsidering it. In this first-ever TED debate, Stewart Brand and Mark Z. Jacobson square off over the pros and cons. A discussion that'll make you think -- and might even change your mind.
About Stewart Brand
Since the counterculture Sixties, Stewart Brand has been a critical thinker and innovator who helped lay the foundations of our internetworked world.
About Mark Z. Jacobson
At Stanford, Mark Z. Jacobson uses numerical models to study the effects of energy systems and vehicles on climate and air pollution, and to analyze renewable energy resources.
Money Never Sleeps
Thorium – The New Green Fuel?
Monday, December 13, 2010
http://www.newstime.co.za/column/ChrisGilmour/Thorium_%E2%80%93_The_New_Green_Fuel/99/2755/
Flirting With Disaster
Every few years the defenses of the nation’s nuclear plants are tested. What’s scary is how often they fail.
http://www.newsweek.com/2011/01/06/failing-the-nuclear-security-test.html
Wind, water and sun beat biofuels, nuclear and coal for clean energy, researcher says
http://www.physorg.com/news148149704.html
Wind, water and sun beat other energy alternatives, study finds
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/january7/power-010709.html
Review of solutions to global warming, air pollution, and energy security
Mark Z. Jacobson
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2009/EE/b809990c
Full PDF Download
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/pdf/article/2009/ee/b809990c
TED Debate on Renewable Versus Nuclear Power
http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/renew_vs_nuclear.html
Mark Z. Jacobson
http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Z._Jacobson
Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy [Paperback]
Arjun Makhijani (Author)
http://amzn.to/hiKr83
download PDF
http://www.ieer.org/carbonfree/CarbonFreeNuclearFree.pdf
Nuclear energy isn't needed
Greenpeace Executive Director Kumi Naidoo wrote the following opinion piece for the New York Times/International Herald Tribune
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/features/Nuclear-energy-isnt-needed/
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Additional Note from Greenpeace China about Say No to Nuclear
First, nuclear is low carbon, but not clean.
Uranium mining is a highly polluting industry which provide fuel rods to nuclear power plant. The fuel rod we use in Daya Bay is supplied by AREVA, a french company reach creates radioactive contamination in Niger.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/releases/areva-fails-to-address-radiati/
There is no solution for the waste. Leakage of the waste is found even in a Germany underground storage because of the groundwater.
The pollution of plutonium in spent fuel will last for 240,000 years. Further more, putting the waste 'out of sight, out of mind' doesnt mean it is clean.
Second, even the latest third generation reactor is not safe. The industry failed to rule out the possibility of heavy accident like Chernobyl.
During the construction of the only 2 third generation reactors in the world, over 3,000 defects are found. It fully reflected the unreliability of nuclear technology.
Another evidence for the safety concern is that not a single nuclear plant is willing to take full liability of possible heavy accident.
If they are really so confident that the latest nuclear plant is completely safe, they dont have to put a cap on their liability on heavy accident.
Nowaday, the limited liability is still a common practise in the industry.
Lastly, Hong Kong is a developed city without a huge population growth, but with very high income. In other words, it is our job to improve our energy efficiency.
We suggest to improve our energy efficiency by 25% while government only target at less than 15% improvement by 2020.
Obviously, they are considering import more nuclear energy rather than controlling our energy consumption in a larger extent.
Greenpeace is going to lanuch our energy scenairo without increase nuclear power in the coming weeks. Please keep an eye on our website and facebook!
Thank you very much.
Best Regards,
Prentice Koo
Campaigner, Greenpeace China
http://www.greenpeace.org/china/ch/
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Nothing new for nuclear
Problems at the Fukushima reactors are the latest in a long pattern of accidents worldwide
https://www.praguepost.com/opinion/7965-nothing-new-for-nuclear.html
Nuclear Power Lies : Stop Acting Like Nuclear Power Is A Good Idea
By Jeff Siegel
Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
http://www.greenchipstocks.com/articles/nuclear-power-lies/1293
Why is the United States so obsessed with nuclear power?
BY ARNE JUNGJOHANN
31 MAY 2011
http://www.grist.org/nuclear/2011-05-31-why-is-the-united-states-so-obsessed-with-nuclear-power
The nuclear industry has powerful backers and weak opponents in D.C. 37
BY ARNE JUNGJOHANN
1 JUN 2011
http://www.grist.org/nuclear/2011-06-01-nuclear-industry-has-powerful-backers-weak-opponents
States fight back against nuclear power, even as the feds remain in its thrall 12
BY ARNE JUNGJOHANN
2 JUN 2011
http://www.grist.org/nuclear/2011-06-02-states-fight-back-against-nuclear-power-even-as-the-feds-remain
Is pro-nuke enthusiasm in the U.S. waning?
BY ARNE JUNGJOHANN
3 JUN 2011
http://www.grist.org/nuclear/2011-06-03-is-pro-nuke-enthusiasm-in-the-us-waning
The True Battle of Chernobyl Uncensored (Full)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdMLFJJyWnM
Nuclear Power Explained : Climate of Hope : Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_NLdRUELjo
Nuclear Power Explained : Climate of Hope : Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeCCBvz_XwA
Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences) [Paperback]
Alexey V. Yablokov (Editor), Vassily B. Nesterenko (Editor), Alexey V. Nesterenko (Editor), Janette D. Sherman-Nevinger (Editor)
http://www.strahlentelex.de/Yablokov%20Chernobyl%20book.pdf
Uranium – The Film
“Uranium – Is It A Country? Tracking the Origins of Nuclear Energy” (2009, 53 Min.)
The documentary heads to Australia and reveals a side of nuclear power that’s rarely seen: uranium – where it comes from, where it goes, and what is left over from the mining process.
http://strahlendesklima.de/en/uranium/
Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free
A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy
http://www.ieer.org/sdafiles/15-1.pdf
Chernobyl Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment
Download Book PDF file
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9ZRX3oXKh8
http://www.strahlentelex.de/Yablokov%20Chernobyl%20book.pdf
Answers to some FAQs about Koodankulam and Nuclear Power http://www.facebook.com/nuclearfree/posts/168838463212344
Impacts of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plants on Marine Radioactivity
Ken Buesseler, Michio Aoyama, and Masao Fukasawa
10/2011
http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es202816c
Nuclear power debate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_debate
List of books about nuclear issues
This is a list of books about nuclear issues. They are non-fiction books which relate to uranium mining, nuclear weapons and/or nuclear power.
Bookstores
A Primer in the Art of Deception The Cult of Nuclearists, Uranium Weapons and Fraudulent Science
by Paul Zimmerman 2009
http://www.du-deceptions.com
Free PDF Excerpts from the Book
http://www.du-deceptions.com/excerpts.html
http://www.du-deceptions.com/articles.html
Britain, Australia and the Bomb (2006)
Canada’s Deadly Secret: Saskatchewan Uranium and the Global Nuclear System (2007)
Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy [Paperback] Arjun Makhijani (Author)
Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change [Paperback]
Brice Smith (Author)
Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer [Paperback] Helen Caldicott (Author)
Nuclear Climate Change Directed by: Summers Henderson
Chernobyl: Consequences of the Catastrophe for People and the Environment (2009)
Chernobyl. Vengeance of peaceful atom. (2006)
Conservation Fallout: Nuclear Protest at Diablo Canyon (2006)
Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy (2004)
In Mortal Hands: A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age (2009)
Maralinga: Australia’s Nuclear Waste Cover-up (2007)
Megawatts and Megatons (2001)
My Australian Story: Atomic Testing (2009)
Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System (2008)
Nuclear Nebraska: The Remarkable Story of the Little County That Couldn’t Be Bought (2007)
Nuclear or Not? Does Nuclear Power Have a Place in a Sustainable Energy Future? (2007)
Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe (2004)
On Nuclear Terrorism (2007)
The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism (2004)
The Last Train From Hiroshima (2010)
The Lean Guide to Nuclear Energy: A Life-Cycle in Trouble (2007)
The Navajo People and Uranium Mining (2006)
The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation (2006)
The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger (2007)
The Unfinished Twentieth Century (2001)
Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective (2004)
TMI 25 Years Later: The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant Accident and Its Impact (2004)
TORCH report (2006)
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (2005)
Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists (1958)
Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958-1978 (1998)
Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (1971)
Fallout Protection (1961)
Hiroshima (1946)
Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America’s Experience with Atomic Radiation (1982)
Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant (1997)
Los Alamos Primer (1992)
Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West (1999)
Non-Nuclear Futures: The Case for an Ethical Energy Strategy (1975)
Nuclear Politics in America (1997)
Nuclear Power and the Environment (1976)
Nuclear Weapons: The Road to Zero (1998)
Nukespeak: Nuclear Language, Visions and Mindset (1982)
Protect and Survive (1980)
Reaction Time: Climate Change and the Nuclear Option (2007)
Survival Under Atomic Attack
The Angry Genie: One Man's Walk Through the Nuclear Age (1999)
The Atom Besieged: Extraparliamentary Dissent in France and Germany (1981)
The Atomic West (1998)
The Cold and the Dark: The World after Nuclear War (1984)
The Cult of the Atom: The Secret Papers of the Atomic Energy Commission
The Day of the Bomb (1961)
The Fate of the Earth (1982)
The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now (1998)
The International Politics of Nuclear Waste (1991)
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1988)
The Nuclear Power Controversy (1976)
The People of Three Mile Island (1980)
The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War (1999)
The Samson Option: Israel's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy (1991)
The Truth About Chernobyl (1991)
Three Mile Island: Thirty Minutes to Meltdown (1982)
U.S. Nuclear Weapons: The Secret History (1988)
We Almost Lost Detroit (1975)
A nuclear fireball lights up the night in a United States nuclear test.
A power plant using atomic energy to generate electricity.
President Jimmy Carter in Pennsylvania following the Three Mile Island accident in 1979
Ranger Uranium Mine complex in Australia
On Fairewinds’ Bookshelf: Our Nuclear Booklist
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China takes right path for expanding nuclear power
Saturday, 03 November, 2012
SCMP
Workers leave a nuclear power plant in Qinshan, Zhejiang
province. China is wary of nuclear energy but needs to cut reliance on carbon-intensive coal.
From every disaster there is a lesson and China has taken the calamity at Japan's Fukushima plant 19 months ago to heart. Rather than charging ahead with its ambitious programme, it has done what should be expected: stop, check, review and proceed cautiously.
http://digcan.com/nuclear
Under plans approved by the State Council, safety standards have been raised and construction of reactors will resume "steadily". It is exactly the approach needed amid so much public anxiety about nuclear energy.
Days before a tsunami, triggered by a massive earthquake, caused a partial meltdown at the Fukushima plant, Beijing had unveiled plans to become the global leader in nuclear energy by 2020. But amid an outcry about safety, it ordered checks on its 16 plants and a freeze on 26 others under construction.
Risks were identified and failings in management found, and these have been rectified. That is as it should be. Fukushima, and the world's worst accident at Chernobyl in Ukraine in 1986, show that when it comes to nuclear power, safety and preparedness can never be compromised.
But while the moratorium on projects has been lifted, the seemingly reckless drive that previously existed has been replaced by caution. No new targets have been set. Proposals for construction of reactors in inland provinces have also been dropped for three years.
Under the safety plan, a road map is laid out for the nation to attain international standards by 2020. A total of 79.8 billion yuan has been earmarked for upgrading security measures and promoting technological innovation to 2015. The early phasing out of older reactors, sharing and improving access to information, enhancing research and development of safety and improving the handling of radioactive waste has been recommended. These steps, coupled with transparency and regular updates of progress, are what are needed if public confidence in the nuclear power industry is to be restored.
Beijing has to gradually end its reliance on polluting coal and oil to produce electricity. Of the clean-energy alternatives, only nuclear can be considered reliable.
It is safe if reactors are properly built, maintained and operated. The Fukushima disaster was the result of a lack of preparedness and poor oversight. Maintaining the highest safety standards prevents accidents. Beijing's new cautious approach is the right way forward. But it also has to be transparent and keep the nation informed about the industry's every development.
Small Reactors Make a Bid to Revive Nuclear Power
Can small, LEGO-like reactors help create better prospects for the nuclear industry?
By David Biello
4/19/2012
http://q.gs/28cAI
Japan nuclear crisis: Seven reasons why we should abandon nuclear power
By Noraini Connie Fattah II in A Nuke Free World
http://nuke6.blogspot.com/2011/10/support-no-nuclear-energy-nuclear-free.html
1. Accidents and population centers
Worldwide standard operating procedures at nuclear power plants offer little margin for safety errors, and the industry is scrambling to check safety at each station. But can it reliably prevent another accident? Accidents are difficult to predict and have immediate far-reaching consequences, compounded by the fact that most nuclear reactors are located near major population centers – Moscow, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Budapest, Kiev. It is nearly impossible to evacuate hundreds of thousands of people in a timely fashion, even with advance warning of several days – as hurricane Katrina demonstrated in New Orleans.
Officials at the Japanese nuclear plant did not think to have closed-circuit cameras inside the buildings to chart an accident for which they never fully planned. But we can be certain of the following. Officials belatedly warned surrounding residents of the danger to their lives, belatedly began to issue potassium iodide tablets to protect them, and belatedly expanded the evacuation zone around the station. Now at least 100,000 people have had to leave the area, and at least 100,000 more have been forced to live inside of sealed houses. At Chernobyl, as well, the authorities only ordered evacuation after a shocking delay.
2. Old reactors are dangerous
It is now standard practice to extend the life of reactors from their design parameters of 25 years to 40 years and longer. It seems foolish at best to take such a gamble on complex technology that operates under high temperature and pressure. Any “unlikely” loss of coolant-capacities may result in explosions, meltdown, and significant release of radioactivity into the environment.
3. No secure repository for spent fuel
Utilities and reactor operators still store spent fuel and other nuclear waste in and around reactors, since no truly secure, permanent repository has been built. In the US, 70,000 tons of spent fuel sits at 103 reactors around the country within 75 miles of 125 million people. In Russia, 50,000 tons of spent fuel remains at power stations.
4. Vulnerable to terrorism
Reactors around the world – 55 in Japan, 103 in the US, 40 in Russia, and so on – are also vulnerable to terrorism. For example, a National Academy of Sciences report in 2005 indicated that pools holding spent fuel stored at these reactors might not withstand a determined attack. The industry is now touting – and building – “floating” nuclear power stations that would operate on barges; clearly protection of these stations would be difficult.
5. Mother Nature's threat
As the nuclear crisis in Japan has shown, even the best-prepared facilities can neither predict nor withstand the most severe natural disasters. Exacerbating the inherent dangers of nuclear power, several plants have been built on active seismic faults: Diablo Canyon in California, Metsamor in Armenia, and Fukushima in Japan.
Diablo Canyon in California is designed to withstand a 7.5 magnitude quake, but experts have raised serious concerns – even before Japan’s 8.9-magnitude earthquake and tsunami – that the plant’s safety would be threatened by a tsunami or high-magnitude earthquake.
The Metsamor Nuclear Power Plant in Armenia had to close abruptly in 1988 because of a devastating earthquake. It was restarted seven years later to cope with the country’s energy shortage, but has since been condemned by the European Union as deeply unsafe and vulnerable to accident.
6. Costs outweigh benefits
For fifty years, engineers have promised “too cheap to meter” energy, the construction of inherently safe reactors, and solution to waste disposal. Instead, a typical reactor, based on the experience of the advanced French industry, now costs a minimum of $6 billion. The Obama administration approved $54 billion in subsidies to the nuclear industry to jumpstart construction in the US.
Reactor costs do not include transmission, waste disposal, fuel costs, or the great costs of remediating such accidents as Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and now Fukushima Daiichi. These billions of dollars will buy only more risk to the general population.
7. Renewable energies are safer, cheaper
With each accident – Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, Fukushima Daiichi – the nuclear industry has followed the same pattern: hesitation to inform the public about the dangers as matters go from bad to worse followed by assertions that none of the world’s other reactors can face the same fate.
Yet none of these risks and dangers exist with other, renewable forms of energy – wind energy, solar energy – and conservation. If they are costly now in terms of power generation, they end up being less expensive and safer, while Fukushima Daiichi has already entered the lexicon of terrifying nuclear accidents.
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100 Reasons Against Nuclear Power
# 1 Dependency
Everything has to be imported uranium.
# 2 expulsions
Uranium mining destroyed the livelihoods of tens of thousands.
# 3 of water wastage
Uranium mining robs precious drinking water.
# 4 Radioactive mud lakes
Giftschlämme of uranium mining threat to human health and the environment.
# 5 cancer from the mine
Uranium mining causes cancer.
# 6 dead earth
The uranium mining leaves behind dead earth.
# 7 Dear Dirt
The remediation of uranium mining sites costs billions - if it is at all possible.
# 8 uranium-gap
The uranium mines can no longer cover the use of nuclear power plants for 20 years.
# 9 Limited stocks
The uranium reserves are already in the next few decades.
# 10 uranium transport
An accident with uranium hexafluoride may have catastrophic consequences.
# 11 plutonium cargo
For the production of fuel rods roll every year many tons of pure, weapons-grade plutonium on European roads.
# 12 Cancer Risk
Nuclear power plants not only make children sick.
# 13 transactions
Nuclear power plants emit over the chimney and into the water radioactive substances.
# 14 Lack of Limits
The radiation protection limits take into account radiation damage.
# 15 low-dose radiation
Low doses of radiation are more dangerous than officially approved.
# 16 tritium
Radioactive waste from nuclear power plants built even in the DNA.
# 17 Hot rivers
The warm waste water from nuclear power plants robs fish of oxygen.
# 18 Radiant Jobs
Thousands of atomic laborers do the dirty work in the nuclear power plants - often without adequate radiation protection.
# 19 Self-Protection
The heads of the nuclear power companies to keep private a lot of distance to their nuclear power plants.
# 20 Safety Defects
None of the 17 nuclear power plants in Germany today would get a permit.
# 21 Age Risk
The longer a nuclear power plant is in operation, the more uncertain it becomes.
# 22 of Reportable Events
Every three days, there is a 'security incident' in a German nuclear power plant.
# 23 Spare part shortage
During repair work on nuclear power plants easily create new errors.
# 24 Stone Age technology
30 year old technology is only one thing: ready for the scrap!
# 25 earthquake hazard
Nuclear power plants are not sufficiently protected against earthquakes.
# 26 plane crash
Nuclear power plants are not protected against airplane crashes.
# 27 Einstürzende Neubauten
Even new types of reactors are not safe.
# 28 insurance protection
50 cars are insured together better than a nuclear power plant.
# 29 Super-GAU
The worst case scenario can happen every day.
# 30 Safety Ranking
German nuclear power plants are unsafe even in international comparison.
# 31 storm
Even a thunderstorm can spell the end.
# 32 profiteering
In case of doubt in the nuclear power plant: Profit comes before safety - even after the explosions.
# 33 Risk Man
People make mistakes - the nuclear power plant that is fatal.
# 34 boric acid
Several operators of nuclear power plants have for years routinely violated the operating rules.
# 35 tangle
Fault in the electrical system are common in nuclear plants and there - with serious consequences.
# 36 Worse than Chernobyl
A meltdown at a local nuclear power plant would have even worse consequences than Chernobyl.
# 37 million for cancer
In a worst-case scenario in Germany, millions of people count on serious health problems.
# 38 home loss
In a worst-case scenario a thousand square kilometers of area will be permanently uninhabitable.
# 39 evacuation
The evacuation of an entire region within a few hours is not possible.
# 40 Iodine Deficiency
Iodine tablets are useless if you leave the house in order to get them.
# 41 Economic Collapse
A worst-case scenario leads to economic collapse.
# 42 Mountain nuclear waste
Nuclear power generates a lot of nuclear waste.
# 43 Disposal lie
Not a single ounce of nuclear waste is disposed of without damage.
# 44 unsolved technical
The disposal has not yet been solved technically.
# 45 one million years
Nuclear waste is a million years, a radiant hazard.
# 46 Nuclear waste dump Aces II
The experimental Asse drinks starting after 20 years.
# 47 No repository
Worldwide, there is still no safe repository for highly radioactive waste.
# 48 St. Florian
Nobody wants to have the nuclear waste.
# 49 Castor tricks
Nuclear waste containers are not adequately tested.
# 50 I lie reprocessing
The so-called reprocessing of nuclear fuel accounts for more nuclear waste.
# 51 Nuclear waste on the beach
Reprocessing plants, radioactive polluters.
# 52 reprocessing lie II
At the reprocessing plants in France and Great Britain have stored huge quantities of nuclear waste from Germany.
# 53 Nuclear waste dump Morsleben
West German nuclear companies ruthlessly dumped their waste into the East German Morsleben.
# 54 Nuclear waste dump Konrad
In the midst of Salzgitter will store one day 865 kg of plutonium.
# 55 interim storage
Highly radioactive nuclear waste stored in a better potato barns.
# 56 Castor radiation
Castor containers give off radiation.
# 57 short-term disposal
The nuclear waste containers in which storage of nuclear waste are to officially hold a full 40 years.
# 58 Muzzle for experts
In order to allow Gorleben as a final repository, the federal government missed its geologists a muzzle.
# 59 in Gorleben Water
Also in the Gorleben salt dome, there is water.
# 60 nuclear waste repository destroyed
Radioactivity decomposes the salt rock.
# 61 cracks in the granite
Even granite is too mobile for nuclear waste.
# 62 Radioactive pots
From nuclear power plants pots.
# 63 uranium waste to Russia
The Gronau uranium enrichment plant unloads its waste in Russia.
# 64 Moonlight fantasy
The moon is too far away.
# 65 Nuclear alchemist
Even nuclear waste transmutation does not solve the problem.
# 66 Security of supply
Nuclear power plants provide no reliable electricity.
# 67 of overcapacity
Nuclear power plants are unnecessary.
# 68 Global Warming
Nuclear power is not CO2 free.
# 69 Climate Change
Nuclear power does not save the climate.
# 70 rivets efficiency
Nuclear power is pure energy.
# 71 of wasted electricity
Atomic force animates the current waste.
# 72 subsidies
The nuclear industry collects billions in subsidies.
# 73 tax-free fuel
Uranium consumption is exempt.
# 74 tax-free reserves
The nuclear companies must pay tax on non billion in revenues.
# 75 Research brake
Nuclear research ruins swallow billions.
# 76 Profit extension
Of longer lead times for nuclear power plants will benefit only the corporations.
# 77 electricity prices
Nuclear power is driving up prices.
# 78 Non-marketable
New nuclear power plants are not profitable.
# 79 consolidated power
Nuclear power cemented the central structure of energy supply and the power of the power companies.
# 80 custodial
Nuclear power steals our freedom and curtailing our fundamental rights.
# 81 Right to Life
Nuclear power violates the fundamental right to life.
# 82 Police Violence
In order to prevent protests against nuclear power, the government resorts to violence.
# 83 strife 50 years
Nuclear power split the company, and has been for decades.
# 84 Consolidated Policy
The influence of the energy companies on the policy is far too large.
# 85 brainwashing
The fairy tale "Without the lights go nuclear" to tell the power companies for over 30 years.
# 86 Adverse
Nobody wants to live near a nuclear power plant.
# 87 Ethics
To use nuclear energy is unethical.
# 88 Tarnprogramm
Civilian and military uses of nuclear energy can not be separated.
# 89 Fast Breeder
> Fast Breeder <potentiate the dangers of nuclear proliferation.
# 90 Dirty Bombs
Radioactive materials from nuclear plants can be collected and used for dirty bombs.
# 91 target
Nuclear power plants are targets.
# 92 uranium munitions
Radioactive waste from the uranium enrichment is ammunition.
# 93 War of uranium
The hunger of the nuclear industry, uranium fueling new conflicts.
# 94 Renewable Energy
A power supply of 100 percent renewable energy is possible.
# 95 Not Compatible
Nuclear power and renewable energy do not mix.
# 96 investment barrier
Atomic force prevents innovation and investment.
# 97 Two-percent-technology
Nuclear power can not make any significant contribution to energy supply.
# 98 discontinued model
Nuclear power is the world's a discontinued model.
# 99 jobs
Nuclear risk jobs.
# 100 of energy systems
Blocks the nuclear energy policy.
# 102 Chernobyl
The reactor accident at Chernobyl has destroyed the lives of hundreds of thousands.
# 103 felt in the core
Torn loose insulation materials can clog the cooling channels in the reactor.
# 104 shells and leaves
Just a few plant remains can bring a reactor core to melt.
# 105 shoddy construction
At the reactor site in Finland worse conditions prevail as the construction of the Cologne underground.
# 106 Rapidly growing cracks
Major pipes in nuclear power plants have cracks without anyone noticing.
# 107 retrofit
Internally, the CDU itself acknowledges safety deficiencies at intractable age-old power plants.
# 108 Cold War
Gorleben in Lower Saxony was revenge on the East - for its leaky Morsleben.
# 109 skeletons in the closet
In the aces, the nuclear industry itself discarded body parts irradiated workers.
# 110 exploration lie
The "exploration" of the Gorleben salt dome is just a front for the construction of a repository.
# 111 License to Kill
Nuclear waste repository must not be tight, decided the Ministry of Environment.
# 112 square up glass
Glazed atomic soup can burst.
# 113 Fits made
Because at Gorleben is no protective layer of clay above the salt dome, is a repository for such a sudden no longer be necessary.
# 114 Illusion Fusion
Nuclear fusion can take advantage of today - in the form of solar energy. Everything else takes too much time and money.
Defenseless # 115
Future generations to enjoy before the courts do not protect against nuclear threats.
# 116 bomb materials on campus
The TU Munich hoarding weapons-grade uranium - fuel for its reactor.
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