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Table of Contents; Introduction; Part 1 Global Warming and Energy Production; 1 Global climate change: Real or myth?; What is the debate about?; The IPCC and International Conventions; The greenhouse effect; Skeptical politicians and pundits; Skeptical scientists; Historical temperature and greenhouse gas record; Last 10,000 years of climate - the Holocene; Recent changes in temperature and CO2; Melting glaciers and rising seas; Models; Response to Singer and Avery; Predictions of future global warming and consequences; Sea level and acidification; Global weirding; 2 Where our Energy Comes From; A brief history of energy; Coal; Oil and natural gas; Uranium; How much energy do we use and where does it come from?; World energy usage; What can be done to reduce our carbon-intensive energy economy?; 3 The Good, Bad and Ugly of Coal and Gas; Coal; Anatomy of a coal-fired plant; Carbon dioxide emissions and other pollutants; Mining and health hazards; How much is there? 50; Carbon Capture and Storage; Natural Gas; How much is there?; Greenhouse gas emissions; Fracking; 4 The Siren song of renewable energy; Solar; Photovoltaic (PV) solar power; Concentrated Solar Power (CSP); Solar heating; Limitations of solar power; Wind; Limitations of Wind Power; Summary; 5 Back to the Future: Nuclear Power; Anatomy of a reactor; Advantages of nuclear power; Baseload power 82; Greenhouse gas emission; Location and footprint; Cost; Subsidies for nuclear and renewables; Advanced Reactor Technology; Can nuclear replace coal?; Arguments against nuclear power; Part 2 Radiation and its Biological Effects; 6 The world of the atom; What is radiation?; Black body radiation - the quantum; The nuclear atom; The quantum atom; The nucleus; Radioactivity: decay processes; Fission; Summary; 7 How dangerous is radiation?; Interactions of Radiation with Matter; Electromagnetic radiation (photon) interactions; Charged particle interactions; Neutron interactions; What is a dose of radiation?; Effects of radiation on DNA and cells; How does radiation cause cancer?; What are the risks?; Death from radiation; Cancer from radiation; Hereditary effects of radiation; How bad is plutonium?; Summing up; 8 What comes naturally and not so naturally; Natural Background Radiation; Cosmic radiation; Primordial terrestrial radiation; Medical exposure; Part 3 Risks of Nuclear Power; 9 Nuclear Waste; What is nuclear waste?; The long and the short of waste storage; Yucca Mountain; Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP); Recycling spent nuclear fuel; Making new fuel from recycled waste; Summing up; 10 About those accidents; The Scare, March 16, 1979; Three Mile Island, March 28, 1979; How the accident happened; Consequences of TMI; Chernobyl, April 26, 1986; How the accident happened; The hazardous radioisotopes; Health consequences; Environmental consequences; A trip to Chernobyl; Consequences for nuclear power; Fukushima, March 11, 2011; How the accident happened; Health and environmental consequences; Consequences for nuclear power; Public perception of risks from nuclear power; 11 The Quest for Uranium; Mining for uranium; Shinkolobwe; Shiprock; Milling; In Situ Recovery; Enrichment; Fuel fabrication; World resources of uranium; Megatons to Megawatts; Is there enough uranium for a nuclear renaissance?; Breeder reactors; Thorium; Summary; 12 Now What?; Myth 1: Radiation is extremely dangerous and we don’t understand it; Myth 2: There is no solution to the nuclear waste produced by nuclear power; Myth 3: Nuclear power is unsafe and nuclear accidents have killed hundreds of thousands of people; Myth 4: Uranium will run out too soon and mining it generates so much carbon dioxide that it loses its carbon-free advantage; Myth 5: Nuclear power is so expensive it can’t survive in the marketplace; Afterword; Appendix A: Global warming; Earth’s energy balance:; Radiative forcing; The emission scenarios of the IPCC special report on emissions scenarios (SRES); Appendix B Glossary of terms, definitions and units; Appendix C Glossary of acronyms and abbreviations; Appendix D Selected Nobel prizes; Index

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