Nuclear Energy: What Everyone Needs to Know
- ISBN-10
- 0199759456
- ISBN-13
- 9780199759453
- Series
- Nuclear Energy
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 222
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-05-17
- Publisher
- OUP USA
- Author
- Charles D. Ferguson
Description
In Nuclear Energy: What Everyone Need to Know, Charles Ferguson provides an authoritative but highly accessible guide to the controversial issue of nuclear power. He contrasts its potential for providing electrical power that is very low in greenhouse gas emissions with the threat that its fuel and waste pose.
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- 2019-02-08
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