Fallout : disasters, lies, and the legacy of the nuclear age / Fred Pearce.
Pearce, Fred, author.
2018
TD196.R3 P43 2018eb
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Title
Fallout : disasters, lies, and the legacy of the nuclear age / Fred Pearce.
Author
Pearce, Fred, author.
ISBN
9780807092507 (electronic book)
0807092509 (electronic book)
9780807092491
0807092495
Published
Boston : Beacon Press, [2018]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 255 pages)
Call Number
TD196.R3 P43 2018eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.17/99
Summary
"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 the risks involved? In Fallout, Fred Pearce uncovers the environmental and psychological landscapes created since the dropping of the first atomic bomb. Traveling from Nevada to Japan to the UK to secret sites of the old Soviet Union, he explores first the landscapes transformed by uranium and by nuclear accidents--sites both well-known and little known. He then examines in detail the toxic legacies of nuclear technology, the emerging dilemmas over handling its waste, the decommissioning of the great radioactive structures of the nuclear age, and the fearful doublethink over our growing stockpiles of plutonium, the most lethal and ubiquitous product of nuclear technologies. How, Pearce asks, has the nuclear experience has changed us? Is nuclear technology indeed the existential threat it sometimes appears? Should we be burdening future generations with radioactive waste that will be deadly for thousands of years? Fallout is the definitive look at humanity's nuclear adventure, for any reader who craves a clear-headed examination of the tangled relationship between a powerful technology and human politics, foibles, fears, and arrogance"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Introduction : Anthropocene journey
Part one. The destroyer of worlds. Hiroshima : an invisible scar
Critical mass : MAUD in the nuclear garden
Las Vegas : every mushroom cloud has a silver lining
Pacific tests : Godzilla and the Lucky dragon
Semipalatinsk : secrets of the steppe
Plutonium mountain : proliferation paradise
Part two. Cold War and hot particles. Mayak : "pressed for time" behind the Urals
Metlino : even the Samovars were radioactive
Rocky flats : plutonium in the snake pit
Colorado silos : Uncle Sam's nuclear heartland
Broken arrows : Dr. Strangelove and the radioactive rabbits
Windscale fire : "a cover-up, plain and simple"
Part three. Atoms for peace. Three Mile Island : how not to run a power plant
Chernobyl : a "beautiful" disaster
Chernobyl : vodka and fallout
Chernobyl : hunting in packs
Fukushima : a scorpion's discovery
Fukushima : Baba's homecoming
Radiophobia : the ghost at Fukushima
Millisieverts : a dose of reason
Part four. Cleaning up. Sizewell : the nuclear laundryman
Sellafield : stone circles and nuclear legacies
Hanford : decommissioning an industry
Gorleben : passport to a non-nuclear future?
Waste : out of harm's way
Conclusion : making peace in Nagasaki.

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