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Power to Save the World : The Truth about Nuclear Energy by Gwyneth Cravens (2007, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100307266567
ISBN-139780307266569
eBay Product ID (ePID)59364582
Product Key Features
Book TitlePower to Save the World : the Truth about Nuclear Energy
Number of Pages464 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEnvironmental Science (See Also Chemistry / Environmental), Power Resources / Nuclear, General, Physics / Nuclear
Publication Year2007
IllustratorYes
GenreTechnology & Engineering, Social Science, Science
AuthorGwyneth Cravens
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight28 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2007-017611
Reviews"There is by now a pretty long list of enviromentalists who used to be anti-nuke and are now in favor of it . . . If a new book calledPower to Save the Worldis half as good as thisWall Street Journalreview says it is, expect that list to get much, much longer." -New York TimesFreakonomics blogby Stephen J. Dubner "Illuminating . . . a picaresque, flat-out love song to the bad boy of the great American energy debateas good a book as we're likely to get on a subject mired in political incorrectness." -Wall Street Journal "In a vividly descriptive, exhaustively researched, and unfailingly lucid narrative, Cravens tracks the life cycle of uranium, tours nuclear facilities, and asks tough questions . . . Cravens' thorough inquiry dispels myths, clarifies science, and portrays an astonishing and ever more crucial hidden world." -Booklist, starred review "Let's hope this clear-eyed, up-to-date tour of all things nuclear . . . sparks a renewed nationwide debate." -Wired "Craven has submitted a thorough, persuasive report from the front lines of the world's energy and climate crises, illuminating for general readers the pros and cons of a highly misunderstood resource." -Publisher's Weekly "Her presentation of these arguments is lucid and convincing, and her prose is lively and colorful . . . this is a sensible and important contribution to the dialog." -Library Journal "Interesting and informative . . . if you are concerned about global warming and the damage caused by our consumption of fossil fuels, as Ms. Cravens is, you would do well to read this book . . . very readable . . . understandable to the lay person while remaining technically rigorous." -East Hampton Star, "There is by now a pretty long list of enviromentalists who used to be anti-nuke and are now in favor of it . . . If a new book called Power to Save the World is half as good as this Wall Street Journal review says it is, expect that list to get much, much longer." - New York Times Freakonomics blogby Stephen J. Dubner "Illuminating . . . a picaresque, flat-out love song to the bad boy of the great American energy debateas good a book as we're likely to get on a subject mired in political incorrectness." - Wall Street Journal "In a vividly descriptive, exhaustively researched, and unfailingly lucid narrative, Cravens tracks the life cycle of uranium, tours nuclear facilities, and asks tough questions . . . Cravens' thorough inquiry dispels myths, clarifies science, and portrays an astonishing and ever more crucial hidden world." - Booklist , starred review "Let's hope this clear-eyed, up-to-date tour of all things nuclear . . . sparks a renewed nationwide debate." - Wired "Craven has submitted a thorough, persuasive report from the front lines of the world's energy and climate crises, illuminating for general readers the pros and cons of a highly misunderstood resource." - Publisher's Weekly "Her presentation of these arguments is lucid and convincing, and her prose is lively and colorful . . . this is a sensible and important contribution to the dialog." - Library Journal "Interesting and informative . . . if you are concerned about global warming and the damage caused by our consumption of fossil fuels, as Ms. Cravens is, you would do well to read this book . . . very readable . . . understandable to the lay person while remaining technically rigorous." - East Hampton Star From the Hardcover edition.
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal333.792/4
SynopsisIn this timely book, Gwyneth Cravens takes an informed and clarifying look at the myths, the fears, and the truth about nuclear energy. With concerns about catastrophic global warming mounting, it is vital that we examine all our energy options.Power to Save the Worlddescribes the efforts of one determined woman, Gwyneth Cravens, initially a skeptic about nuclear power, as she spends nearly a decade immersing herself in the subject. She teams up with a leading expert in risk assessment and nuclear safety who is also a committed environmentalist to trace the path of uranium-the source of nuclear fuel-from start to finish. As we accompany them on visits to mines as well as to experimental reactor laboratories, fortress-like power plants, and remote waste sites normally off-limits to the public, we come to see that we already have a feasible way to address the causes of global warming on a large scale. On the nuclear tour, Cravens converses with scientists from many disciplines, public health and counterterrorism experts, engineers, and researchers who study both the harmful and benign effects of radiation; she watches remote-controlled robotic manipulators unbolt a canister of spent uranium fuel inside a "hot cell" bathed in eerie orange light; observes the dark haze from fossil-fuel combustion obscuring once-pristine New Mexico skies and the leaky, rusted pipes and sooty puddles in a coal-fired plant; glimpses rainbows made by salt dust in the deep subterranean corridors of a working nuclear waste repository. She refutes the major arguments against nuclear power one by one, making clear, for example, that a stroll through Grand Central Terminal exposes a person to more radiation than a walk of equal length through a uranium mi≠that average background radiation around Chernobyl and in Hiroshima is lower than in Denver; that there are no "cancer clusters" near nuclear facilities; that terrorists could neither penetrate the security at an American nuclear plant nor make an atomic bomb from its fuel; that nuclear waste can be-and already is-safely stored; that wind and solar power, while important, can meet only a fraction of the demand for electricity; that a coal-fired plant releases more radiation than a nuclear plant and also emits deadly toxic waste that kills thousands of Americans a month; that in its fifty-year history American nuclear power has not caused a single death. And she demonstrates how, time and again, political fearmongering and misperceptions about risk have trumped science in the dialogue about the feasibility of nuclear energy. In the end, we see how nuclear power has been successfully and economically harnessed here and around the globe to become the single largest displacer of greenhouse gases, and how its overall risks and benefits compare with those of other energy sources. Power to Save the Worldis an eloquent, convincing argument for nuclear power as a safe energy source and an essential deterrent to global warming.
LC Classification NumberTK9146
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