Carbon ideologies. Volume 1, No immediate danger

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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.

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Atmospheric carbon dioxide Environmental aspects

Carbon Environmental aspects

Energy development Environmental aspects

Fukushima Nuclear Disaster, Japan, 2011

Nuclear power plants Accidents Japan Fukushima-ken

Nuclear power plants Environmental aspects

Nuclear reactor accidents Japan Fukushima-ken

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ISBN:

9780399563492
0399563490

Description:

xx, 601 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Other Title:

No immediate danger : volume one of Carbon ideologies

Contents:

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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2438095

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