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Author : Harold Bolter
Publisher : Quartet Books (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9780704380172
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Inside Sellafield written by Harold Bolter and published by Quartet Books (UK). This book was released on 1996 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hunter Davies
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 178033513X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sellafield Stories written by Hunter Davies and published by Constable. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sellafield Stories is the largest Oral History Project conducted in the UK. It was started by Jenni Lister, of Cumbria Record Office & Local Studies Library, and was funded by the BNFL. Through the personal life stories of 30 people who lived, worked and built the complex SELLAFIELDS STORIES tells the true story of the Sellafields Nuclear Plant that has been at the heart of the Nation's story for the last 60 years. First set up in the aftermath of World War II to develop Britain's nuclear weapons, it was not until 1957 that it was given over to nuclear power, kick starting a revolution in post war energy. Since then it has been the site of protests, controversy and debate. Today it is still the country's biggest single industrial site employing 13,500 people.
Author : Veronica McDermott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)
Download or read book Going Nuclear written by Veronica McDermott and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Energy crises and climate change have revived interest in the 'nuclear option' as the first decade of the twenty-first century edges towards an uncertain close. Going Nuclear is essential reading for anyone seeking co understand the origins and landmark developments of the nuclear age, why civil nuclear power became an iconic protest issue in the late twentieth century and the lessons we may draw from that as we confront the most serious environmental problems threatening our planet and human civilisation.
Author : H. Bolter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)
Download or read book Inside Sellafield written by H. Bolter and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Fred Pearce
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807092509
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)
Download or read book Fallout written by Fred Pearce and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into our complicated 8-decade-long relationship with nuclear technology, from the bomb to nuclear accidents to nuclear waste. From Hiroshima to Chernobyl, Fukushima to the growing legacy of lethal radioactive waste, humanity’s struggle to conquer atomic energy is rife with secrecy, deceit, human error, blatant disregard for life, short-sighted politics, and fear. Fallout is an eye-opening odyssey through the first eight decades of this struggle and the radioactive landscapes it has left behind. We are, he finds, forever torn between technological hubris and all-too-human terror about what we have created. At first, Pearce reminds us, America loved the bomb. Las Vegas, only seventy miles from the Nevada site of some hundred atmospheric tests, crowned four Miss Atomic Bombs in 1950s. Later, communities downwind of these tests suffered high cancer rates. The fate of a group of Japanese fishermen, who suffered high radiation doses from the first hydrogen bomb test in Bikini atoll, was worse. The United States Atomic Energy Commission accused them of being Red spies and ignored requests from the doctors desperately trying to treat them. Pearce moves on to explore the closed cities of the Soviet Union, where plutonium was refined and nuclear bombs tested throughout the ’50s and ’60s, and where the full extent of environmental and human damage is only now coming to light. Exploring the radioactive badlands created by nuclear accidents—not only the well-known examples of Chernobyl and Fukushima, but also the little known area around Satlykovo in the Russian Ural Mountains and the Windscale fire in the UK—Pearce describes the compulsive secrecy, deviousness, and lack of accountability that have persisted even as the technology has morphed from military to civilian uses. Finally, Pearce turns to the toxic legacies of nuclear technology: the emerging dilemmas over handling its waste and decommissioning of the great radioactive structures of the nuclear age, and the fearful doublethink over the world’s growing stockpiles of plutonium, the most lethal and ubiquitous product of nuclear technologies. For any reader who craves a clear-headed examination of the tangled relationship between a powerful technology and human politics, foibles, fears, and arrogance, Fallout is the definitive look at humanity’s nuclear adventure.
Author : Oliver Franklin-Wallis
Publisher : Hachette Books
ISBN 13 : 0306827131
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)
Download or read book Wasteland written by Oliver Franklin-Wallis and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 BY THE NEW YORKER, THE GUARDIAN, and KIRKUS REVIEWS An award-winning investigative journalist takes a deep dive into the global waste crisis, exposing the hidden world that enables our modern economy—and finds out the dirty truth behind a simple question: what really happens to what we throw away? In Wasteland, journalist Oliver Franklin-Wallis takes us on a shocking journey inside the waste industry—the secretive multi-billion dollar world that underpins the modern economy, quietly profiting from what we leave behind. In India, he meets the waste-pickers on the front line of the plastic crisis. In the UK, he journeys down sewers to confront our oldest—and newest—waste crisis, and comes face-to-face with nuclear waste. In Ghana, he follows the after-life of our technology and explores the global export network that results in goodwill donations clogging African landfills. From an incinerator to an Oklahoma ghost-town, Franklin-Wallis travels in search of the people and companies that really handle waste—and on the way, meets the innovators and campaigners pushing for a cleaner and less wasteful future. With this mesmerizing, thought-provoking, and occasionally terrifying investigation, Oliver Franklin-Wallis tells a new story of humanity based on what we leave behind, and along the way, he shares a blueprint for building a healthier, more sustainable world—before we’re all buried in trash.
Author : Stephanie Cooke
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1596916176
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)
Download or read book In Mortal Hands written by Stephanie Cooke and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative history of nuclear power explores the pros and cons of nuclear energy as a power source that has given way to international tension and weapons development, in a critical assessment that also considers nuclear energy's possible role in countering global warming.
Author : Dr Frank Barnaby
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135761973
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)
Download or read book The British Nuclear Weapons Programme, 1952-2002 written by Dr Frank Barnaby and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-11-23 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first British nuclear weapon test took place in Australia in October 1952. British nuclear weapons have been a source of controversy ever since. In this book, scientists, doctors, researchers and others assess the military value, political impact, health effects and legality of the programme.
Author : Marilynne Robinson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429944730
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)
Download or read book Mother Country written by Marilynne Robinson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the time when Robinson wrote this book, the largest known source of radioactive contamination of the world's environment was a government-owned nuclear plant called Sellafield, not far from Wordsworth's cottage in the Lakes District; one child in sixty was dying from leukemia in the village closest to the plant. The central question of this eloquently impassioned book is: How can a country that we persist in calling a welfare state consciously risk the lives of its people for profit. Mother Country is a 1989 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction.
Author : Richard Sharpley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351809547
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)
Download or read book Tourism, Tourists and Society written by Richard Sharpley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism, Tourists and Society provides a broad introduction to the inter-relationship between tourism and society, making complex sociological concepts and themes accessible to readers from a non-sociological academic background. It provides a thorough exploration of how society influences or shapes the behaviours, motivations, attitudes and consumption of tourists, as well as the tourism impacts on destination societies. The fifth edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect recent data, concepts and academic debates: • New content on: mobilities paradigm and the emotional dimension of tourist experiences. • New chapter: Tourism and the Digital Revolution, looking at the ways in which the Internet and mobile technology transform both tourist behaviour and the tourist experience. • New end-of-chapter further reading and discussion topics. Accessible yet critical in style, this book offers students an invaluable introduction to tourism, tourists and society.
