Insurmountable Risks: The Dangers of Using Nuclear Power to Combat Global Climate Change
AUTHOR: Brice Smith
ISBN: 978-1-57143-162-2
How much will nuclear energy cost relative to other means of getting rid of carbon dioxide emissions? What will be the risks of catastrophic accidents if we build reactors at the rate of one a week or more, cookie-cutter style, around the world? What about the risks of proliferation and terrorist attacks and nuclear waste?
This is THE book providing a meticulously researched analysis of the risks of using nuclear energy to combat global warming. Were there no alternative, the severity of the threat facing humankind and other species from global climate change might warrant serious consideration of the risks of nuclear energy. But as Insurmountable Risks convincingly shows, there are far safer economical alternatives. Copublished with IEER Press.
About the author - Brice Smith is a senior scientist at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research in Takoma Park, MD. He has authored or coauthored works on nuclear weapons policy, nuclear waste management, uranium enrichment technologies and the economics of wind power in the western United States. He received a Phd in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
About IEER - The Institute For Energy and Environmental Research provides the public and policy-makers with throughtful clear, and sound scientific and technical studies on a wide range of issues. IEER's aim is to bring scientific excellence to public policy issues to promote the democratization of science and a safer and healthier environment.
"This book provides a meticulously researched analysis of the risks of using nuclear energy to combat global warming. Were there no alternative, the severity of the threat facing humankind and other species from global climate change might warrant serious consideration of the risks of nuclear energy. But as Insurmountable Risks convincingly shows, there are far safer economical alternatives.
Before buying into the idea that nuclear energy is going to save us
from global climate change because of its theoretical potential for low
carbon dioxide emissions, read this book—and then work for the
alternatives."
—Arjun Makhijani, President Institute for Energy and Environmental Research