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Pearce, Fred.
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Radioactive pollution.
Nuclear accidents.
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Pearce, Fred.
Radioactive pollution.
Nuclear accidents.
Nuclear industry.
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Fallout :
disasters
,
lies
, and the
legacy
of the
nuclear
age
/ Fred Pearce.
by
Pearce, Fred.
Beacon Press, 2018.
Call #:
363.1799 P359f
Subjects
Radioactive pollution.
Nuclear
accidents.
Nuclear
industry.
ISBN:
9780807092491 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Disasters
,
lies
, and the
legacy
of the
nuclear
age
Description:
viii, 255 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
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