The Nuclear Imperative

Author : Jeff W. Eerkens
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402049315
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nuclear Imperative written by Jeff W. Eerkens and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this global wake-up call, nuclear physicist Jeff Eerkens explores remedies for the impending energy crisis, when oil and natural gas are depleted. The Nuclear Imperative demonstrates that solar, wind, and biomass power are incapable of supplying the enormous quantities of electricity and heat needed for manufacturing portable synthetic fuels to replace our current use of fossil fuels. It offers a fresh look at uranium-produced energy as the optimal affordable solution.

Author : Jeff Eerkens
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9048186676
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nuclear Imperative written by Jeff Eerkens and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-06-18 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this global wake-up call, nuclear physicist Jeff Eerkens explores remedies for the impending energy crisis, when oil and natural gas are depleted. The Nuclear Imperative demonstrates that solar, wind, and biomass power are incapable of supplying the enormous quantities of electricity and heat needed for manufacturing portable synthetic fuels to replace our current use of fossil fuels. It offers a fresh look at uranium-produced energy as the optimal affordable solution.

Author : Jeff Eerkens
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9789048186662
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nuclear Imperative written by Jeff Eerkens and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this global wake-up call, nuclear physicist Jeff Eerkens explores remedies for the impending energy crisis, when oil and natural gas are depleted. The Nuclear Imperative demonstrates that solar, wind, and biomass power are incapable of supplying the enormous quantities of electricity and heat needed for manufacturing portable synthetic fuels to replace our current use of fossil fuels. It offers a fresh look at uranium-produced energy as the optimal affordable solution.

Author : Hans Jonas
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226405974
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Imperative of Responsibility written by Hans Jonas and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans Jonas here rethinks the foundations of ethics in light of the awesome transformations wrought by modern technology: the threat of nuclear war, ecological ravage, genetic engineering, and the like. Though informed by a deep reverence for human life, Jonas's ethics is grounded not in religion but in metaphysics, in a secular doctrine that makes explicit man's duties toward himself, his posterity, and the environment. Jonas offers an assessment of practical goals under present circumstances, ending with a critique of modern utopianism.

Author : The CSIS Commission on Nuclear Energy Policy in the United States
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442225122
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Restoring U.S. Leadership in Nuclear Energy written by The CSIS Commission on Nuclear Energy Policy in the United States and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-07-03 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America’s nuclear energy industry is in decline. Low natural gas prices, financing hurdles, failure to find a permanent repository for high-level nuclear waste, reactions to the Fukushima accident in Japan, and other factors are hastening the day when existing U.S. reactors become uneconomic. The decline of the U.S. nuclear energy industry could be much more rapid than policy makers and stakeholders anticipate. China, India, Russia, and others plan on adding nuclear technology to their mix, furthering the spread of nuclear materials around the globe. U.S. companies must meet a significant share of this demand for nuclear technology, but U.S. firms are currently at a competitive disadvantage due to restrictive and otherwise unsupportive export policies. Without a strong commercial presence in new markets, America’s ability to influence nonproliferation policies and nuclear safety behaviors worldwide is bound to diminish. The United States cannot afford to become irrelevant in a new nuclear age.

Author : S. Turchetti
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137438746
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Surveillance Imperative written by S. Turchetti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-17 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveillance is a key notion for understanding power and control in the modern world, but it has been curiously neglected by historians of science and technology. Using the overarching concept of the "surveillance imperative," this collection of essays offers a new window on the evolution of the environmental sciences during and after the Cold War.

Author : Louis René Beres
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nuclear Strategy and World Order written by Louis René Beres and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Luther J. Carter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317376307
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nuclear Imperatives and Public Trust written by Luther J. Carter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title, first published in 1987, examines the topic of nuclear waste management, and the way in which the public reacts to this issue. Part 1 explores the sources of public unease, such as the way in which nuclear waste had failed to be properly contained in the past. Part 2 looks at the search for a waste policy and the introduction of The Nuclear Waste Policy Act. Part 3 examines the waste problem from the standpoint of it being an international issue, and finally, Part 4 looks to the future and the lessons that we can learn from past nuclear waste management failures. This book will be of interest to students of environmental management.

Author : Louis René Beres
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781412829861
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nuclear Strategy and World Order written by Louis René Beres and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current U.S. nuclear strategy goes beyond the legitimate objective of survivable strategic forces to active preparation for nuclear war. The Reagan administration strategy rejects minimum deterrence and prepares for a nuclear war that might be protracted and controlled. The strategy reflects the understanding that a combination of counterforce targeting, crises location of urban populations, and ballistic missile defense could make nuclear war purposeful and tolerable. The strategy includes five unwarranted assumptions: (1) the Soviets might decide to launch a limited first strike on the United States or its allies; (2) the USSR is more likely to be deterred by the threat of limited U.S. counterforce reprisals than by the threat of overwhelming, total nuclear retaliation; (3) victory is possible in a superpower nuclear war; (4) a counterforce nuclear strategy can be undertaken without compromising the prospects of vertical and horizontal arms control; and (5) peace can be maintained indefinitely via nuclear deterrence. According to the author, Reagan administration strategy must be reversed, and an alternative strategy should be pursued. The United States needs to seek a comprehensive test ban, renounce the first use of nuclear weapons, and institute additional weapon free zones. (Author/NE)

Author : Tad Daley
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813549493
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Apocalypse Never written by Tad Daley and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apocalypse Never illuminates why we must abolish nuclear weapons, how we can, and what the world will look like after we do. On the wings of a brand new era in American history, Apocalypse Never makes the case that a comprehensive nuclear policy agenda that fully integrates nonproliferation with disarmament, can both eliminate immediate nuclear dangers and set us irreversibly on the road to abolition. In jargon-free language, Daley explores the possible verification measures, enforcement mechanisms, and governance structures of a nuclear weapon-free world.