Nuclear issues

The United States currently has no place to dispose of the high-level radioactive waste resulting from the production of the nuclear weapons and the operation of nuclear electronic power plants.

Excessive levels of heavy metals can be introduced into the environment, for example, by industrial waste or fertilizers.

The US Environmental Protection Agency Office of Radiation and Indoor Air asked the National Research Council to evaluate whether sufficient new data exist to warrant a reassessment of health risks reported in Health Effects of Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiations (BEIR V) in 1990.

Any professional examination of existing or potential new toxins in a population must account for those already present from past problems and natural conditions.

This volume focuses on the effects of various toxic agents on human health.

Atomic postcards played an important role in creating and disseminating a public image of nuclear power.

Decommissioning nuclear facilities is a relatively new field, which has developed rapidly in the last ten years.

Environment and Development: Basic Principles, Human Activities, and Environmental Implications focuses on the adverse impact that human activities, developments, and economic growth have on both natural and inhabited environments.

A new, holistic transdisciplinary endeavour born in the 21st century, Sustainability Science: Managing Risk and Resilience for Sustainable Development aims to provide conceptual and practical approaches to sustainable development that help us to grasp and address uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity and dynamic change.

Growing public concern about releases of radiation into the environment has focused attention on the measurement of exposure of people living near nuclear weapons production facilities or in areas affected by accidental releases of radiation.

Does radiation medicine need more regulation or simply better-coordinated regulation?

This book is a comprehensive compilation of reports, correspondence and other publications on Ukraine.

The first accessible book to discuss all aspects of nuclear power to help combat climate change and lethal air pollution.

Sustainable Economic Development: Resources, Environment, and Institutions presents 25 articles that lay the foundations of sustainable development in a way that facilitates effective policy design.

The Committee on Dosimetry for the Radiation Effects Research Foundation (RERF) was set up more than a decade ago at the request of the U.

This book provides engineers with the necessary information to design sustainable processes, products and value chains.

Quartz, zeolites, gemstones, perovskite type oxides, ferrite, carbon allotropes, complex coordinated compounds and many more -- all products now being produced using hydrothermal technology.

The Iranian nuclear crisis has dominated world politics since the beginning of the century, with the country now facing increasing diplomatic isolation, talk of military strikes against its nuclear facilities and a disastrous Middle East war.

This new report from the National Research Council's Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board (NRSB) and the Transportation Research Board reviews the risks and technical and societal concerns for the transport of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in the United States.

The social, political, and cultural consequences of attempts to cheat death by freezing life.

As the world struggles to meet the growing international demands for electricity, green energy, and alternatives to fossil fuels, the nuclear power sector is experiencing global growth.

How Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and China deal with such urban environmental issues as ports, goods movement, air pollution, water quality, transportation, and public space.

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Radiological Risk Assessment and Environmental Analysis comprehensively explains methods used for estimating risk to people exposed to radioactive materials released to the environment by nuclear facilities or in an emergency such as a nuclear terrorist event.

The Radioactivity in the Environment Series addresses the key aspects of this socially important and complex interdisciplinary subject.

In the twenty-first century, nuclear energy has become a hotly contested issue.

How did Andrei Sakharov, a theoretical physicist and the acknowledged father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb, become a human rights activist and the first Russian to win the Nobel Peace Prize?

Lessons from the massive Chernobyl nuclear accident about how we deal with modern hazards that are largely imperceptible.

Depleted uranium, a component of some weapons systems, has been in use by the U.

A startling history of the Chernobyl disaster by Svetlana Alexievich, the winner of the Nobel prize in literature 2015 On 26 April 1986, at 1.

Is it possible to build a star on earth?

Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2018'An insightful and important book, that often reads like a good thriller, and that exposes the danger of mixing powerful technology with irresponsible politics' - Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens'As moving as it is painstakingly researched.

The US decision to drop an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 remains one of the most controversial events of the twentieth century.

The US decision to drop an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 remains one of the most controversial events of the twentieth century.

With the World desperate to find energy sources that do not emit carbon gasses, nuclear power is back on the agenda and in the news, following the increasing cost of fossil fuels and concerns about the security of their future supply.

With the World desperate to find energy sources that do not emit carbon gasses, nuclear power is back on the agenda and in the news, following the increasing cost of fossil fuels and concerns about the security of their future supply.

Modern societies require energy systems to provide energy for cooking, heating, transport, and materials processing, as well as for electricity generation.

Modern societies require energy systems to provide energy for cooking, heating, transport, and materials processing, as well as for electricity generation.

The United States is in the throes of two unfolding energy revolutions, and partisans--convinced that only their side holds the key to American prosperity, security, and safety--are battling over which one should prevail.

The United States is in the throes of two unfolding energy revolutions, and partisans--convinced that only their side holds the key to American prosperity, security, and safety--are battling over which one should prevail.

'It is certainly a good thing for the world that Hitler's crowd or Stalin's did not discover this atomic bomb.

Originally perceived as a cheap and plentiful source of power, the commercial use of nuclear energy has been controversial for decades.

Originally perceived as a cheap and plentiful source of power, the commercial use of nuclear energy has been controversial for decades.

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.

The full story of Britain's nuclear weapons tests in the 1950s has only recently begun to emerge.

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In 2018, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine issued an Interim Report evaluating the general viability of the U.

Accidents and terrorist attacks that lead to the release of radioactive materials can cause deaths, injuries, and a range of psychosocial effects in the surrounding community and team of emergency responders.