The first volume in a timely series about climate change and energy generation focuses on the consequences of nuclear-power production through the events and aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011.
Record details
ISBN:9780399563492
ISBN:0399563490
ISBN:9780399563508
Physical Description:print xx, 601 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Publisher:New York, New York :Viking,[2018]
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note:
0. When we kept the lights on -- PRIMER -- What was the work for?. About waste ; About demand -- What was the work for? (continued). About power -- What was the work for? (continued) -- Carbon ideologies approached. About data ; About data suppression ; About disbelief -- "Consider it good fortune" -- Carbon ideologies defined. About carbon ; About agriculture ; About industrial chemicals ; The parable of adipic acid ; About manufacturing ; About transportation ; About power plants -- Power and climate. About solar energy ; About greenhouse gases ; About fuels -- NUCLEAR -- Nuclear ideology. About uranium ; About nuclear reactors -- 1. Lower than for real estate agents -- March 2001: When the wind blows from the South (Fukushima) -- February 2004: Harmful rumors (Fukushima) -- October 2014, with a Hanford Excursion in August 2015: the Red Zones (Hanford, Washington; Fukushima) -- Normalization on the rocks -- Postscript: Japan sees the light.
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