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Originally published in 1979, written at a time when the world stood on the brink of (another) energy crisis, this book argued that an alternative primary fuel had to be found and that the answer lay in the exploitation of nuclear fission. The book sought to dispel the anxieties of environmentalists by correcting what the authors felt were basic misconceptions about nuclear energy. The book distinguishes carefully between nuclear energy and nuclear explosions, as the authors believed that it was the confusion between these two very different things which lies at the root of most opposition to nuclear energy. The Relevant facts concerning nuclear energy are presented in a straightforward way and the case made that nuclear energy can be clean and safe. The book includes a discussion of the storage of nuclear waste and the safety record of the nuclear industry.
List of contents
1.The Ultimate Price of an Energy Collapse 2. Desecration of the Environment 3. Nuclear Reactors Cannot Explode - But Other Things Can. 4. Death Sentences 5. Radioactivity 6. How Damaging is Radioactivity? 7. Nuclear Accidents 8. The Day the Dam Broke 9. How Stands Solar? 10. Natural Gas 11. Coal 12. Storing One's Own Nuclear Waste 13. A Nuclear Accident in the U.S.S.R? 14. Breeder Reactors and the U.S. Non-Proliferation Act 15. Who is Doing the Proliferating? 16. It Has All Happened Before.
About the author
Fred Hoyle was one of the 20th Century's great scientific thinkers. He was Plumian Professor at Cambridge 1957 - 1972 and founder director of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy in Cambridge 1967-1972.
After working in the film and television industry Geoffrey Hoyle began a long lasting collaboration with his father, Fred Hoyle in the 1960s. Together they wrote a number of science fiction novels and political thrillers as well as a series of books for children. Geoffrey regularly provided photographic and research support to his father's writing projects.
Summary
Originally published in 1979, written at a time when the world stood on the brink of (another) energy crisis, this book argued that an alternative primary fuel had to be found and that the answer lay in the exploitation of nuclear fission.
