Half-lives : a guide to nuclear technology in Canada

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Half-lives : a guide to nuclear technology in Canada

Hans Tammemagi, David Jackson

Oxford University Press, 2009

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Unlocking the atom

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First ed. published: Hamilton : McMaster University Press, 2002 under title: Unlocking the atom

Bibliography: p. 261-267

Includes index

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Description

In the face of climate change and oil shortages, nuclear technology offers many important possibilities. Separating myth from reality, Half-Lives evaluates the promise of nuclear technology as a source of clean energy, as well as the wide range of applications in medicine and industry it offers in a uniquely Canadian context. Without math or complicated science, Half-Lives explains the fundamentals of nuclear reactions and radioactivity. The uses of nuclear technology in Canada are explored in clear, accessible language, from uranium mining to electricity-producing nuclear power reactors (including the Canadian-designed CANDU reactor), to nuclear medicine and industrial applications. Accentuated with photographs, text boxes, short biographies of key scientists, diagrams, two appendices, and a glossary, this book will also have an important role as a key reference tool. First published in 2002, Half-Lives remains the only book to consider nuclear technology from a Canadian perspective; this new edition updates the issues in light of industry developments, politics, and environmental crisis.

Table of Contents

  • PREFACE
  • NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY AT THE CROSSROADS
  • SPLITTING THE ATOM
  • RADIATION EVERYWHERE
  • BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF RADIATION
  • ELECTRICITY AND AN IMPENDING ENERGY CRISIS
  • CANDU: THE CANADIAN REACTOR
  • THE GLOBAL NUCLEAR PICTURE
  • SAFETY: THE PRIME IMPERATIVE
  • NUCLEAR POWER AND THE ENVIRONMENT
  • HIGH-LEVEL NUCLEAR WASTE
  • NUCLEAR MEDICINE: THE GIFT OF LIFE
  • NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY IN INDUSTRY AND SCIENCE: VAST POTENTIAL
  • URANIUM: THE NUCLEAR FUEL
  • THE FISSION FUTURE
  • FUSION: THE ENERGY OF THE FUTURE?
  • RESEARCH: THE PATH FORWARD
  • APPENDIX A
  • APPENDIX B
  • GLOSSARY

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