Energy Or Extinction?: The Case for Nuclear Energy |
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The Antinuclear Environmentalists | 1 |
Stars and Atoms | 5 |
Energy | 16 |
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000 million 109 metric tons accidents accumulated Africa Alan Cottrell amount anti-nuclear environmentalists become break-up breeding Britain calculated cancer CANDU carbon cause cent burn-up chemical energy Club of Rome conservation developed Earth economic electrical energy energy of motion engine estimates expectancy explosion exposure fast breeder fast breeder reactors Figure free neutrons gram half-life heat energy helium hydro-power hydrocarbons hydrogen increase industry isotope kilogram kinds of atom less lifetimes living materials metal miles million million molecules nuclear bombs nuclear energy nuclear fission nuclear power plant nuclear reactor occur oxygen pieces plutonium problem produced protons radiation relative abundances reserves of coal risk of nuclear rock solar energy Soviet Union stars statistical deaths stockpile sulphur sunlight supply surface Table technical transformed undergo fission United unwanted uranium and thorium uranium/thorium windmill Windscale world population X-ray