Table of Content
and Overview.- I. Energy and Society.- 1. Energy Futures: A World Study.- 2. Energy Demand--Energy Supplies.- 3. Exclusive Paths and Difficult Choices: An Analysis of Hard, Soft, and Moderate Energy Paths.- 4. An Energy-Deficient Society.- 5. Energy Shortages: The Downside Risks.- II. Economics of Nuclear Power.- 6. Economics of Light-Water Reactors.- 7. Fast Breeder Reactor Economics.- III. Recycling and Proliferation.- 8. International Cooperation in the Nuclear Field: Past, Present, and Prospects.- 9. Nuclear Recycling: Costs, Savings, and Safeguards.- 10. Alternative Fuels, Fuel Cycles, and Reactors: Are They Useful? Are They Necessary'.- 11. The Nuclear Weapons Proliferation Issue.- 12. Paths to a World with More Reliable Nuclear Safeguards.- 13. The Homemade Bomb Issue.- IV. Risk Assessment.- 14. LWR Risk Assessment.- 15. Accident Analysis and Risk Assessment.- 16. The Waste Disposal Risk.- 17. Radon Problems.- 18. Risks in Our Society.- V. Special Nuclear Issues, Past and Present.- 19. Health Effects of Low-Level Radiation.- 20. Routine Releases of Radioactivity from the Nuclear Industry.- 21. Low-Level Radioactivity and Infant Mortality.- 22. The Myth of Plutonium Toxicity.- 23. Myths about High-Level Radioactive Waste.- 24. The Aging Reactor Myth.- 25. The Police State Myth.- 26. Insurance and Nuclear Power: The Price--Anderson Act.- 27. Solar and Nuclear Power Are Partners.
