The rise of nuclear fear
After a tsunami destroyed the cooling system at Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant, triggering a meltdown, protesters around the world challenged the use of nuclear power. Germany announced it would close its plants by 2022. Although the ills of fossil fuels are better understood than ever, the t...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London
Harvard University Press
2012 ©2012
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| Collection: | DeGruyter MPG Collection - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Radioactive hopes
- Radioactive fears
- Radium : elixir or poison?
- The secret, the master, and the monster
- The destroyer of worlds
- The news from Hiroshima
- National defenses
- Atoms for peace
- Good and bad atoms
- The new blasphemy
- Death dust
- The imagination of survival
- The politics of survival
- Seeking shelter
- Fail/safe
- Reactor promises and poisons
- The debate explodes
- Energy choices
- Civilization or liberation?
- Watersheds
- The second nuclear age
- Deconstructing nuclear weapons
- Tyrants and terrorists
- The modern arcanum
- Artistic transmutations