Nuclear power reconsidered/Bibliography
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General References
- World Nuclear Information Library a well-organized authoritative collection of information on nuclear power.
- Our World in Data has a section on Energy and Environment with nice interactive graphics.
- Fission is in Fashion -- Energy Policy with Energy Realism Robert Hargraves, 2022, Self-paced, graphic presentations based on a course at Dartmouth College telling the story of energy from the discovery of fire to the current debate over nuclear fission.
The Renewables Only debate
- Derek Abbott, Is Nuclear Power Globally Scalable? Proceedings of the IEEE, October 2011, pp.1611-17. A paper frequently quoted by anti-nuclear advocates, alleging fifteen "fundamental engineering and resource scaling limits that make the notion of a nuclear utopia somewhat impractical".
- Mark Z. Jacobson (2020). 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 1108790836.
- Christopher Clack's critique of Jacobson's 100% Renewables Proposal Proc. National Academy of Sciences 2017 114 (26) 6722-6727.
- Roadmap to Nowhere Mike Conley’s website critique of Jacobson’s Roadmap
- Edwin Lyman, Union of Concerned Scientists, March 2021, Advanced Isn’t Always Better "Assessing the Safety, Security, and Environmental Impacts of Non-Light-Water Nuclear Reactors".
- Kurt Smithpeters' critique of Lyman’s UCS paper ses1sez.substack.com, 07 June 2022.
- L.M. Krall, et.al., Nuclear waste from small modular reactors Proc. National Academy of Sciences, vol.119, No.23, 31 May 2022.
- Dan Yurman's critique of Stanford's Questionable Study on Spent Nuclear Fuel for SMRs 31 May 2022.
- Charles McCombie, et.al., SMRs: a big game changer? Nuclear Engineering International, April 2022, pp.19-23. - A discussion of the political barriers to acceptance of the new reactors.
Videos
- Nuclear Power Debate Firing Line 2021 - the best arguments from both sides.
- Pandora's Promise 2013 documentary examines some of the widespread beliefs about the dangers of nuclear energy.
- Why renewables can’t save the planet | Michael Shellenberger | TEDxDanubia 2019. An environmental activist who now supports nuclear power.
- Chernobyl - HBO Miniseries 2019 Emmy and Golden Globe winning miniseries, grossly exaggerates radiation dangers.
- How HBO Got It Wrong On Chernobyl review in Forbes by James Conca, environmental scientist.
- Collection of videos on nuclear power by Gordon McDowell, Canadian videographer.
Safety
Waste Management
Weapon Proliferation
- Kryuchkov et.al. (2011) 'Isotopic Uranium and Plutonium Denaturing as an Effective Method for Nuclear Fuel Proliferation Protection in Open and Closed Fuel Cycles' https://www.doi.org/10.5772/17822 How nuclear fuel can be made useless for bombs by denaturing (diluting fissile isotopes with hard-to-separate non-fissile, e.g. diluting U-235 with U-238) and by adding a radiation barrier (isotopes that will make stolen fuel easy to detect, hard to handle, and make a bomb fizzle, not detonate).
Cost
Reactor Designs
- Advanced Reactors Information System IAEA Database on Advanced Nuclear Power Reactors
- Advance Nuclear Directory Developers, Suppliers, and National Laboratories
- ThorCon Isle details of a complete nuclear power plant.