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viii, 255 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Environmental journalist Fred Pearce travels the globe to investigate our complicated seven-decade long relationship with nuclear technology, from the bomb to nuclear accidents to nuclear waste. While concern about climate change has led some environmentalists to embrace renewable energy sources like wind and solar, others have expressed a renewed interest in nuclear power as an alternative source of carbon-neutral energy. But can humanity handle...
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32 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
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English
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"Earth has a limited supply of fossil fuels, and in the near future this supply will come to an end. However, more people live on the planet than ever in its history--and they all need energy. One of the ways in which we can meet this increasing demand for energy is through nuclear power. Nuclear power stations do not drain our planet of its resources, and they can supply a seemingly limitless source of energy. Discover more about nuclear energy,...
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xv, 163 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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English
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"Nuclear Nuevo México: Identity, Ethnicity, and Resistance in Atomic Third Spaces is the study of the effects of the American nuclear program on Native American and Mexican-American communities in New Mexico. As the United States emerged as a nuclear leader following World War II, Los Alamos, New Mexico, became home to Site Y of the Manhattan Project-home of the atomic bomb. In the process of creating this nuclear technology, human and non-human...
5) Bombshell
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267 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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Twenty-five years after the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, an alienated young woman born in its shadow travels across America, waging guerilla warfare against the nuclear industry while being pursued by the CIA.
Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl disaster, Russian assassin Varyushka Cash wages a guerrilla war against the nuclear industry leaving a trail of violence and destruction in her wake.
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x, 314 pages (18 unnumbered pages of illustrations): illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"After the Second World War, the United States offered a new kind of atom that differed from the bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This atom would cure diseases, produce new foods, make deserts bloom, and provide abundant energy for all. It was an atom destined for the formerly colonized, recently occupied, and mostly non-white parts of the world that were dubbed the "wretched of the earth" by Frantz Fanon. The "peaceful atom" had so much...
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xii, 404 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
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English
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"On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of radiation poisoning, fallout contaminated half the continent, and thousands fell ill. In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy draws on new sources to tell the dramatic stories of the firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who heroically extinguished the nuclear inferno. He...
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xix, 345 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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English
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"A chilling account of seventy years of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the "definitive" (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly. Nuclear energy was embraced across the globe at the height of the nuclear industry in the 1960s and 1970s; today, there are 440 nuclear reactors operating throughout the world, with nuclear power providing 10 percent of world electricity. Yet as the world seeks to reduce carbon emissions to combat climate change,...
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xiv, 324 pages : map ; 24 cm
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English
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"In this thoughtful social history of New Mexico's nuclear industry, Lucie Genay traces the scientific colonization of the state in the twentieth century from the points-of-view of the local people, including Hispanics, Native Americans, and Anglos. Genay focuses on personal experiences in relation to postwar socioeconomic and cultural changes rather than on Cold War policy and political and scientific figures in order to give a sense of the upheaval...
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