Nuclear Power: A Very Short Introduction

📁 Nuclear Power: A Very Short Introduction

✍ Maxwell Irvine 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

Nuclear power is a highly topical issue and there is widespread debate concerning future energy budgets and how to replace our dependence on fossil fuels. Here, Maxwell Irvine provides an introduction to the nature of nuclear energy, looking at the risks, the relevance of nuclear power, and the pote

📁 Nuclear Power: A Very Short Introduction

✍ Maxwell H Irvine 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

With the world desperate to find energy sources that do not emit carbon gases--a desire compounded by the sky-rocketing cost of fossil fuels--nuclear power is back on the agenda and in the news. Yet nuclear power sparks anxiety in many people who are unclear about the nature and extent of the associ

Nuclear Power: A Very Short Introduction

📁 Nuclear Power: A Very Short Introduction

✍ Maxwell H Irvine 📂 Library 📅 2011 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

With the world desperate to find energy sources that do not emit carbon gases--a desire compounded by the sky-rocketing cost of fossil fuels--nuclear power is back on the agenda and in the news. Yet nuclear power sparks anxiety in many people who are unclear about the nature and extent of the associ

Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introducti

📁 Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

✍ Joseph M. Siracusa 📂 Library 📅 2008 🏛 Oxford University Press, USA 🌐 English

Nuclear weapons are the most powerful and destructive weapons ever created. The combined power of all nuclear weapons currently in existence has the potential to destroy the World many times over. That fact has permanently changed the perception of warfare and created a whole new set of military and

Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introducti

📁 Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

✍ Joseph M. Siracusa 📂 Library 📅 2008 🌐 English

Despite not having been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons are still the biggest threat that faces us in the 21st century. Indeed, for all the effort to reduce nuclear stockpiles to zero and to keep other nations (such as Iran) from developing nuclear capability, it seems th

Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introducti

📁 Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

✍ Joseph M. Siracusa 📂 Library 📅 2008 🌐 English

Despite not having been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear weapons are still the biggest threat that faces us in the 21st century. Indeed, for all the effort to reduce nuclear stockpiles to zero and to keep other nations (such as Iran) from developing nuclear capability, it seems th

Nuclear Power: A Very Short Introduction

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