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The Reporter's Handbook on Nuclear Materials, Energy, and Waste Management
Michael R Greenberg
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Description for The Reporter's Handbook on Nuclear Materials, Energy, and Waste Management
Hardcover. Presents overviews of twenty-four of the most important issues in the nuclear realm, including: health effects, nuclear safety and engineering, Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, nuclear medicine, food irradiation, transport of nuclear materials, spent fuel, nuclear weapons, and global warming. Num Pages: 304 pages, glossary, resource section, index. BIC Classification: JWMN; KNBN; RNQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 590.
An essential reference for journalists, activists, and students, this book presents scientifically accurate and accessible overviews of twenty-four of the most important issues in the nuclear realm, including: health effects, nuclear safety and engineering, Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, nuclear medicine, food irradiation, transport of nuclear materials, spent fuel, nuclear weapons, and global warming. Each 'brief' is based on interviews with named scientists, engineers, or administrators in a nuclear specialty, and each has been reviewed by a team of independent experts. The objective is not to make a case for or against nuclear-related technologies, but rather to provide definitive background ... Read more
An essential reference for journalists, activists, and students, this book presents scientifically accurate and accessible overviews of twenty-four of the most important issues in the nuclear realm, including: health effects, nuclear safety and engineering, Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, nuclear medicine, food irradiation, transport of nuclear materials, spent fuel, nuclear weapons, and global warming. Each 'brief' is based on interviews with named scientists, engineers, or administrators in a nuclear specialty, and each has been reviewed by a team of independent experts. The objective is not to make a case for or against nuclear-related technologies, but rather to provide definitive background ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Vanderbilt University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Tennessee, United States
ISBN
9780826516596
SKU
V9780826516596
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Ref
99-3
About Michael R Greenberg
Three of the authors (Michael Greenberg, Karen Lowrie, and Henry Mayer) are associated with the National Center for Neighborhood and Brownfield Redevelopment at the Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers. Greenberg also serves as Associate Editor for Environmental Health for the American Journal of Public Health and as Editor-in-Chief of Risk Analysis, where Lowrie serves ... Read more
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