Tues 8.07.12 | Nuclear Clouds and Facts

Kristin Shrader-Frechette, What Will Work: Fighting Climate Change with Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear Power Oxford U. Press, 2011

Kabasenche, O'Rourke & Slater, eds., The Environment: Philosophy, Science, and Ethics MIT Press, 2012

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If climate change concerns you, consider nuclear power, which, according to many of its proponents, does not involve emissions of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases. But is this true? Kristin Shrader-Frechette contests those claims; she also discusses the financial costs of nuclear energy, the risks to human health it poses, the perils of industry-funded science, and the contours of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.

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