Nuclear Roulette: The Truth About the Most Dangerous Energy Source on Earth (False Solutions Publications) - Hardcover

Smith, Gar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1603584773 ISBN 13: 9781603584777

Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co, 2013

Synopsis

Nuclear power is not clean, cheap or safe. With Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima, the nuclear industry's record of catastrophic failures now averages one major disaster every decade. After three US-designed plants exploded in Japan, many countries moved to abandon reactors for renewables. In the US however, powerful corporations and a compliant government still defend nuclear power, while promising billion-dollar bailouts to operators.

Each new disaster demonstrates that the nuclear industry and governments lie to avoid panic and to preserve the myth of safe, clean nuclear power. Tokyo and Washington both covered up Fukushima's radiation risks and, when confronted with damning evidence, simply raised the levels of 'acceptable' risk to match the greater levels of exposure.

Nuclear Roulette chronicles the problems of ageing reactors, uncovers the costly challenge of decommissioning, explores the industry's greatest seismic risks, and explains how solar flares could black our power grids, causing the world's 400-plus reactors to self-destruct. This powerful expose concludes with a roundup of proven and potential energy solutions that can replace nuclear technology with a 'Renewable Renaissance', combined with conservation programmes that can cleanse the air and cool the planet.

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About the Author

Gar Smith is editor emeritus of Earth Island Journal, a Project Censored award-winning investigative journalist, and co-founder of Environmentalists Against War. He has covered revolutions in Central America and has engaged in environmental campaigns on three continents. He lives a low-impact, solar-assisted lifestyle in Berkeley, California.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1603584773
• ISBN 13: 9781603584777
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320