Nuclear Energy - Boom, Bust, and Emerging Renaissance

This book provides insight with non-technical explanations of how nuclear reactor technology holds the promise of making significant contributions to the struggle against global warming, and why dozens of nations are engaged in innovation and expansion of nuclear technology.

About the author

Edward Friedman obtained an undergraduate degree in Physics from MIT in 1957 and a PhD in Physics from Columbia University in 1963. He received an Honorary Doctorate of Mathematics from Sofia University in Bulgaria in 2000 and served as director of a program to establish an indigenous college of engineering at Kabul University in Afghanistan (1970-1973). He was awarded an Education Medal from the King of Afghanistan (1973). At Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, USA, he served as Professor of Physics (1963-1973), Dean of the College (1973-1986) and became Director of an award-winning program on applications of computers for secondary school mathematics and science education (1986-2004). He is currently a Trustee at the American University in Bulgaria from 2017.

Summary

This book provides insight with non-technical explanations of how nuclear reactor technology holds the promise of making significant contributions to the struggle against global warming, and why dozens of nations are engaged in innovation and expansion of nuclear technology.

Product details

• Authors: Friedman , Friedman, Edward A. Friedman, Edward A. (Emeritus Professor of Technol Friedman
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 03.07.2025
• EAN: 9780198925781
• ISBN: 978-0-19-892578-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Atomic physics, nuclear physics; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources / Nuclear, SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, environmental science, engineering & technology, Nuclear physics, Nuclear power & engineering, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Nuclear power and engineering, Nuclear structure physics