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Dirty Secrets of Nuclear Power in an Era of Climate Change (2024)
| Author | D.Brugge, A.Datesman |
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6-01-0-00-288.pdf |
| Date | 2024 |
| Classification | 6.01.0.00/288 (GENERAL) |
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Dirty Secrets of Nuclear Power in an Era of Climate Change
Doug Brugge • Aaron Datesman
Foreword by Helen Caldicott
2024
Contents
1 Climate Change: Melting Ice and Statistical Models . . . . . . . . 1
Summary Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2 The Dirty, Working-Class Problem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Summary Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
3 Nuclear Waste . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Summary Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
4 Nuclear Proliferation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Summary Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
5 Societal Burdens Imposed by Nuclear Accidents . . . . .. . . . . . 43
The Canadian Meltdown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 43
All Technologies Are Accident-Plagued . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 45
Common Threads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Chernobyl and Fukushima . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
An Impossible Battle Against Dust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Central Pennsylvania, 1979 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Summary Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
6 Three Mile Island: An Unresolved Paradox . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Summary Points . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 69
References. . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
7 Protracted Exposures May Be Misunderstood � . . . . . . . . . . . 71
The Postal Analogy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Challenging the Linear Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Experimental Evidence for the Hypothesis of Shot Noise in
Radiobiological Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Background Radiation May Not Be Properly Understood . . . . . . . . 80
nvironmental Releases from Operating Nuclear Power Stations. . . . . 82
Summary Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
8 New Nuclear Power: Expensive, Slow, and Inferior . . . . . . . . . 87
The Initial Adoption of Nuclear Power . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 87
The Domestic Nuclear Renaissance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
The Vanishing Nuclear Renaissance in Historical Context . . . . . . 92
Construction Cost and Duration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Levelized Cost of Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
The Immediate Opportunity Cost of Plant Vogtle . . . . . . . . . . . 96
The Current Situation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . 97
The Future is Offshore . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
The Long-Term Opportunity Cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Summary Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Afterword . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107