User:Macquigg/Sandbox/Nuclear power reconsidered/Bibliography

General References

 * World Nuclear Information Library a well-organized authoritative collection of information on nuclear power.
 * Our World in Data has a section on Energy and Environment with nice interactive graphics.
 * Christopher Clack's Critique of Jacobson's 100% Renewables Proposal Proc. National Academy of Sciences 2017 114 (26) 6722-6727.
 * Derek Abbott, Is Nuclear Power Globally Scalable? Proceedings of the IEEE, October 2011, pp.1611-17. A paper frequently quoted by anti-nuclear advocates, alleging fifteen "fundamental engineering and resource scaling limits that make the notion of a nuclear utopia somewhat impractical".
 * Edwin Lyman, Union of Concerned Scientists, March 2021, Advanced Isn’t Always Better "Assessing the Safety, Security, and Environmental Impacts of Non-Light-Water Nuclear Reactors".
 * Edwin Lyman, Union of Concerned Scientists, March 2021, Advanced Isn’t Always Better "Assessing the Safety, Security, and Environmental Impacts of Non-Light-Water Nuclear Reactors".

Videos

 * Nuclear Power Debate Firing Line 2021 - the best arguments from both sides.
 * Pandora's Promise 2013 documentary examines some of the widespread beliefs about the dangers of nuclear energy.
 * Why renewables can’t save the planet | Michael Shellenberger | TEDxDanubia 2019. An environmental activist who now supports nuclear power.
 * Chernobyl - HBO Miniseries 2019 Emmy and Golden Globe winning miniseries, grossly exaggerates radiation dangers. See the review in Forbes by James Conca, environmental scientist. How HBO Got It Wrong On Chernobyl
 * Collection of videos on nuclear power by Gordon McDowell, Canadian videographer.

Weapon Proliferation

 * Kryuchkov et.al. (2011) 'Isotopic Uranium and Plutonium Denaturing as an Effective Method for Nuclear Fuel Proliferation Protection in Open and Closed Fuel Cycles' https://www.doi.org/10.5772/17822 How nuclear fuel can be made useless for bombs by denaturing (diluting fissile isotopes with hard-to-separate non-fissile, e.g. diluting U-235 with U-238) and by adding a radiation barrier (isotopes that will make stolen fuel easy to detect, hard to handle, and make a bomb fizzle, not detonate).

Reactor Designs

 * Advanced Reactors Information System IAEA Database on Advanced Nuclear Power Reactors
 * ThorCon Isle details of a complete power plant.
 * Natrium Sodium cooled fast reactor.

Controversial articles

 * Abbott, D. (2016) "Nuclear Power: Game Over", AQ: Australian Quarterly, 87(4), 8–16,40. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24877873
 * Jacobson, M., et.al. (2022) "Zero air pollution and zero carbon from all energy at low cost and without blackouts in variable weather throughout the U.S. with 100% wind-water-solar and storage", Renewable Energy, 184, 430-442. https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/21-USStates-PDFs/21-USStatesPaper.pdf
 * Lyman, E., (2021) "Advanced Isn’t Always Better 'Assessing the Safety, Security, and Environmental Impacts of Non-Light-Water Nuclear Reactors', Union of Concerned Scientists, March 2021. https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/2021-05/ucs-rpt-AR-3.21-web_Mayrev.pdf
 * Sovacool, B.K., Schmid, P., Stirling, A. et al. Differences in carbon emissions reduction between countries pursuing renewable electricity versus nuclear power. Nat Energy 5, 928–935 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-020-00696-3
 * https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/on-anti-nuclear-bullshit

Anti-nuclear organizations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nuclear_organizations