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Karl O. Ott
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School of Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
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Bernard I. Spinrad
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Department of Nuclear Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, USA
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Table of contents (28 chapters)
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Introduction and Overview
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Energy and Society
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- V. P. Kenney, J. W. Lucey
Pages 49-72
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- Ian A. Forbes, Joe C. Turnage
Pages 73-109
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Economics of Nuclear Power
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Front Matter
Pages 123-124
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Recycling and Proliferation
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Front Matter
Pages 179-180
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- E. L. Zebroski, Bernard I. Spinrad
Pages 223-247
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- Bernard I. Spinrad, E. L. Zebroski
Pages 265-269
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Risk Assessment
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Front Matter
Pages 271-272
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About this book
E. L. Zebroski During the 1970s, there was rapid growth of a philosophy that assumes that deindustrialization will result in an Elysian postindustrial society. This view is generally antitechnology; commonly in opposition to large-scale energy sources; and often supportive of high-cost, speculative, or at most, small-scale energy sources. The social and economic costs of policies which would lead to dein dustrialization are ignored or considered to be irrelevant. The development of civilian nuclear energy as a by-product of wartime developments also brings with it an association with the fear of nuclear weapons and with the repugnance for war in general. Many of these views and associations mingle to provide significant political constituencies. These have had consid erable impact on party platforms and elections. Also, another important aspect is the conservation viewpoint. This view--correctly--concerns the fact that in definite increase in per capita energy consumption, coupled with increasing U.S. and world populations, must at some point be restrained by limits on resources as well as by limits arising from environmental effects. All of these concerns have been subject to voluminous analysis, publications, and public discussion. They underlie one of the dominant social movements of the 1970s and 1980s. Indefinite exponential growth of energy production is neither possible nor de sirable.
Editors and Affiliations
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School of Nuclear Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA
Karl O. Ott
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Department of Nuclear Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, USA
Bernard I. Spinrad
