Nuclear energy: a sensible alternative

Book · Tue Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:5049575

Ott, K O; Spinrad, B I

This book presents in-depth articles on the main issues affecting the use and usefulness of nuclear energy for peaceful domestic purposes. Topics considered include energy futures (a world study), energy demand-energy supplies, an energy-deficient society, energy shortages, the economics of light water reactors (LWRs), fast breeder reactor economics, international cooperation in the nuclear field, nuclear recycling (costs, savings, safeguards), alternative fuels, alternative fuel cycles, alternative reactors, the nuclear weapons proliferation issue, paths to a world with more reliable nuclear safeguards, the homemade bomb issue, LWR risk assessment, accident analysis and risk assessment, the waste disposal risk, radon problems, health effects of low-level radiation, routine releases of radioactivity, plutonium toxicity, and the Price-Anderson Act.

• OSTI ID: 5049575
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
290300 -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Environment
Health
& Safety
290600* -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Nuclear Energy
292000 -- Energy Planning & Policy-- Supply
Demand & Forecasting
ACCIDENTS
ACTINIDES
BREEDER REACTORS
COOPERATION
ECONOMICS
ELEMENTS
ENERGY
ENERGY SHORTAGES
EPITHERMAL REACTORS
FAST REACTORS
FBR TYPE REACTORS
FLUIDS
FORECASTING
FUEL CYCLE
FUEL SUBSTITUTION
GASES
HAZARDS
HEALTH HAZARDS
INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
LAWS
LOW-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTES
MANAGEMENT
MATERIALS
METALS
NONMETALS
NUCLEAR ENERGY
NUCLEAR WEAPONS
PLUTONIUM
PRICE-ANDERSON ACT
PROLIFERATION
RADIATION HAZARDS
RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS
RADIOACTIVE WASTE DISPOSAL
RADIOACTIVE WASTES
RADIOACTIVITY
RADON
RARE GASES
REACTOR ACCIDENTS
REACTORS
REPROCESSING
RISK ASSESSMENT
SAFEGUARDS
SEPARATION PROCESSES
SHORTAGES
SUPPLY AND DEMAND
TOXICITY
TRANSURANIUM ELEMENTS
USES
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTES
WATER COOLED REACTORS
WEAPONS