Seeing the Light: The Case for Nuclear Power in the 21st Century

Graham Jr, Thomas,Montgomery, Scott L.

ISBN 10: 110840667X / ISBN 13: 9781108406673

Editore: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Codice articolo mon0000400575

Riassunto:

The first accessible book to discuss all aspects of nuclear power to help combat climate change and lethal air pollution.

Informazioni sugli autori: Scott L. Montgomery is a geoscientist, professor, and author who has published twelve books and many articles, essays, and papers, both in the sciences and humanities. His most recent title, The Shape of the New (2015), with Daniel Chirot, was selected by The New York Times as one of the 100 Best Books of 2015. In addition to teaching at the University of Washington, Seattle, he has lectured widely in North America and Europe, and is often interviewed for his expertise on energy-related topics. An earlier work, The Powers that Be: Global Energy for the Twenty-first Century and Beyond (2010) has been widely used as a text in energy courses and translated into a number of foreign languages.

Thomas Graham, Jr is Executive Chairman of the Lightbridge Corporation, Virginia which develops new types of nuclear power fuel. He also does extensive part-time teaching at major universities, presently including Stanford University, California and Oregon State University. He lectures worldwide and appears before Congressional Committees. Since 2009, he has been a member of the International Advisory Board for the United Arab Emirates' peaceful nuclear power program. Internationally known as a leading authority on international arms control and non-proliferation, he served as a senior US diplomat in every major international arms control and non-proliferation negotiation in which the US took part from 1970–1997.

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Titolo: Seeing the Light: The Case for Nuclear Power...
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press
Data di pubblicazione: 2017
Legatura: paperback
Condizione: Good