Nuclear Renewal: Common Sense about Energy

by Richard Rhodes

Book Overview

The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb discusses the feasibility of nuclear power in America, arguing that it is the safest, cleanest, and most economical energy source... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670852074
• ISBN13: 9780670852079
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: Viking Books
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

The best overview of nuclear power yet written.

This is the rarest sort of book -one that is totally accessible to the beginner interested in learning more about nuclear power, but so filled with details and specifics that it is both enjoyable and informative for the reader that already knows quite a bit about the topic. The book is mainly valuable for addressing the politics surrounding the debate about nuclear power in America, and contrasting public perceptions with very well researched facts. This is the best single compendium of facts, figures, and political events surrounding nuclear power that I have seen. Replete with history to explain exactly how different aspects of the current technological and political situations came about. The book was later made into a PBS documentary, which is seldom rebroadcast -perhaps because the conclusions that Rhodes reaches through his research puts him at odds with many PBS regular viewers? An excellent book. Typical of Rhodes' thorough but readable style.