1 comments about Probabilistic Safety Assessment in the Chemical and Nuclear Industries.

1. This book is an excellent overview about Probabilistic Safety Assessment. In this case applied in Chemical and Nuclear Industries. The references are complete, but in some cases are not updated. A very well overview about data, methods and software used in this analysis is done. The relevant incidents in both industries are explain in special chapters.

   Finally, this book is a powerful source of information with a lots of links to useful and more specific information. A complete startpoint in Probabilistic Safety Assessment.

No comments about The Physics of Particle Detectors (Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology).

No comments about Nuclear Wastelands: A Global Guide to Nuclear Weapons Production and Its Health and Environmental Effects.

No comments about Nuclear Reactor Materials and Applications.

1 comments about Nuclear Energy (Discovery Channel School Science).

1. This book provides an unbiased, simple, well-illustrated explanation of nuclear energy that is both informative and interesting. Although it is written for children, adults should enjoy it as well.

5 comments about Nuclear Madness: What You Can Do.

1. "Helen Caldicott as usual is one of the great saviors of our time. What she says here is absolute truth from my personal experience with the nuclear industry as a scientist sent in to measure radiation leakage from nuclear power plants through the 1970's-80's. This is a filthy, lying industry with no redeeming qualities and when the plants become obsolete they cost even more to clean up than they did to build. It's a mess and the cause of much cancers of all kinds world wide. The nuclear power industry is an unneccessary, damnable mess and should never have happened. Wind, water and solar is the way to go. There's no need for this filty, dangerous industry which hasn't figured out how to dispose of its lethal waste. Nothing on earth is filthier and more lethal!... Listen to Dr. Caldicott. She tells truth that is vital as can be!"...



2. Everyone in America should read this, and her new book, "The New Nuclear Threat." Dr. Helen Caldicott is one of the most brilliant minds of our time and should be thoroughly thanked for her strength as a human to inform the rest of us about this horrible threat. And to the man who wrote that scaring the "uneducated public" sells books, you obviously don't know anything about Ms. Caldicott, who is fully opposed to capitalism. Shes a socialist, and isn't doing it for the money, shes doing it so you don't die.



3. Come on.... this book has so many holes in it, I'm shocked I even read it! It is very clear that Ms. Caldicott has no faith in the nuclear power industry... frankly, I don't ether. However, the difference between me (and my moderate political stance) and Ms. Caldicott's LEFT WING, LIBERAL, SOCIALIST view's... is Ms. Caldicott makes money selling such Nuclear Waste like propaganda onto the unsuspecting public... and me... I sell cars for a living.
   
   Interesting, in this book, how Ms. Caldicott very carefully tippy toes around all the shrewd and indecisive foreign policy blunders Bill Clinton made during his 8 years in office, yet she bombards Ronald Reagan and George H W Bush over EVERTHING their administration did in relation to anything they did... as if all the world's problems, especially Australia's, is George's and Ronnie's fault!
   
   In all honesty, I came away from this book, glowing in the dark over the ridiculous so called facts and "claims" that Ms. Caldiott lobs back and forth in this book! I will, however, giver her a high grade for her "simple" and "effective" use of sentence structure and writing style. Of course, being the highly complex LEFT WING SOCIALIST LIBERAL ... she knew well enough to write such a book based on a "7th grade" reading level.
   *clap clap clap clap clap clap*



4. This depicts Three Mile Island as though it was a realization of the movie "China Syndrome".
   Actually no one was killed or injured. The only injuries occured when lawyers rushing to file lawsuits bumped into people at the Harrisburg airport. Radiation release was trivial.
   All the lawsuits were eventually thrown out of court.
   The meltdown catastrophe she describes didn't even penetrate the primary containment vessel.
   Nuclear energy will be crucial as we confront declining supplies of oil and natural gas.



5. I once had the opportunity to see Helen speak. It was a lecture at the university of Guelph, some years ago. I thought it strange that she would constantly cite herself often and referred good intelligent questions back to "just read my book". So I did, and was disappointed. While intelligent I feel that she missed some of the larger physical concepts of nuclear power. I skip the physics lecture here but she does have quite a few contradictory points. Granted it was written by an intelligent medical doctor for the public and not by a physicist for graduate physics students. However I fear that she gives an entirely bias view of the subject. She fails to mention other vectors for transport of radioactive material, and entirely blames the nuclear industry. One omission that jumps to mind is the large number of unstable elements trapped inside coal beds, released into our atmosphere by the burning of coal. This one drove me nuts because if we are to rid our atmosphere of these agents then we must switch off coal. Sadly right now the only alternative to major power output is nuclear. Anyways I recommended the read if you want a intro to the debate but please don't take it as the only argument in one of the largest issues to face us and our children. To the students out there this is more nuclear energy 101 then a comprehensive advanced topics class. Much is skimmed over and nothing raised is without debate.
   
   Cheers,

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5 comments about A Case for Nuclear-Generated Electricity: (Or Why I Think Nuclear Power Is Cool and Why It Is Important That You Think So Too).

1. Although the topic is highly technical, it is written in a manner that is very understandable to a newbie reader. He explains some very complicated technical aspects in a clear and simple way using very helpful illustrations. This book is a great primer on nuclear energy. Covers the topic top to bottom. Kudos to the author.



2. Well written, often well argued. But it doesn't succeed. Throughout you are hit with bias so blatant that it leaves you shaking your head. Clearly after a lifetime trying to justify this technology, he's not going to back-pedal at all.
   
   What do you do with the radioactive waste? What do you DO with the radioactive waste? WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THE RADIOACTIVE WASTE? Failed to answer, sidestepped, minimised... It ruined an otherwise interesting book.
   
   Nuclear Power - still NOT the answer.



3. With all of the furor about Carbon Dioxide, Ethanol, Solar and Windmill Power,etc., "Nuclear Power" is seldom mentioned. Yet it is the safest and most efficient source of electrical energy. And it does NOT create significant waste and pollution, especially when compared to almost all other sources of energy. The book offers the most balanced and technically accurate assesment of Nuclear Power, and should convince even the most rabid and/or ill informed anti-Nuclear fanatic that it is the best, and probably the ONLY way to go for this century. Our future will indeed be bleak without it. Well written, interesting reading, and very important for the future of our nation and the world.
   
   Bud Weisbrod



4. Provides an excellent discussion of the basics of nuclear fission. Then it covers the primary objections
   to nuclear power - cost, accident potential, waste storage, and theft of bomb material. He makes a well
   thought out case for nuclear, especially since coal is our only other major fuel with sufficient reserves to support
   our growing long term need for electric power.



5. Scott Heaberlin has produced a great source of information, not just on nuclear electricity generation, but on the entire energy landscape. Written in a conversational tone, the book is a quick read and keeps you interested. It is somewhat technical, especially in the beginning chapters, however, you cannot expect to have an appreciation or understanding of this topic without getting at least a little technical. Unlike most anti-nukes, he abstains from emotional arguments or clever language, leaving the reader with a clean look at a lot of good data and rock-solid explanations with no intention to deceive.

No comments about Nuclear Implosions: The Rise and Fall of the Washington Public Power Supply System (Studies in Economic History & Policy: USA in the Twentieth Century).

5 comments about Under the Cloud: The Decades of Nuclear Testing.

1. I remember in the 50's and 60's being taught to get under my desk in case of a nuclear blast and to stay inside in case of nuclear fallout. Naturally this would only come from Russia and even our small town in Wyoming had a fallout shelter, we thought this was great as our state had several ICBM silos. After reading this book I was once again educated on the perils of nuclear fallout, NOT ONLY WAS IT ALL OVER THE USA, IT WAS MEASURED BY OUR GOVERNMENT AND AT NO TIME WAS ANYONE WARNED TO STAY INSIDE OR TAKE ANY PRECAUTIONS REGUARDING, FOOD, WATER OR LIVESTOCK. This is a crime against humanity and the fallout is still with us in the extremely high cancer rates that follow the fallout maps. The most incredible thing about this book is that it really happened and the American people were and still are totally uninformed. How many RADS were you exposed to? Check it out!



2. Have read it cover to cover a few times. This is a book that should be read in schools. A shocking and mostly untold portion of American history. To read about the extent of continental US Nuclear testing and the often covered up dangers (By the AEC) is a real eye opener. Many of the stories are told from the perspective of eye witnesses and include other bits of timely and relevant history that help to capture the moment. Pages of diagrams detailing the fallout patterns of many tests show that fallout was often scattered across the entire country (instead of just endangering the NTS area). A "must read" for anyone with an open mind towards real facts and American History.



3. Excellent and thorough account of the nuclear testing era in America, the South Pacific and the Soviet Union. The book's focus is the open air testing in Nevada, and details of those tests and fallout trails in the 50s and 60s. The book is written in a style that makes it fascinating, not bogged down with complex scientific jargon. It sidesteps to describe what was going on in American culture at the time, in the cities that were virtually unaware they were downwind of deadly exposure. Author explains how it all occurred, why, and the tragic legacy it has left.
   
   Highly recommended for anyone. Should be of interest to all since as the book so accuruately reveals, we were all downwinders.



4. Richard Miller's "Under the Cloud" is probably a must-read for any of the late baby-boomers like myself who grew up during the Cold War but mostly after above-ground nuclear testing had ended. I was born in 1957 and for most of my life, the above-ground tests were a thing of the past and not really much discussed. But Miller's book reveals how I and most others of my age were probably victims of fallout to some degree. The book provides a very good sense of time relative to the major test series and documents much of the fallout movement and intensity. Miller's narrative style is easy to read but at times a just a wee bit melodramatic. It also gets confusing for the non-physicist as he tends to change units of measurement for radiation exposure constantly - in one test the exposure is in rads, then it's in roentgens, then it's in millicuries - and most of us don't know the relationship. But these criticisms are quibbles with what is for the most part an outstanding book and a very revealing look at something the government wouldn't want you to know. Along with Richard Rhodes' books on the nuclear program, this is a first-rate volume.



5. I'm too young to have ever seen a nuclear test, but wish I could have. The book covers all the things the US did with nuke test, and where the fallout traveled. John Wayne filmed the movie "The Conqueror" in Monument Valley, in part because the dust swirled dramatically when horse thundered through. Problem is, the dust was radioactive. Everyone connected to the movie died of cancer. Various chapters cover nuclear accidents, and their outcomes. GREAT book, be you for or against nuclear weaponry, you'll find a lot of information in here...