Nuclear Portraits: Communities, the Environment, and Public Policy

Published by University of Toronto Press 2017

Nuclear Portraits

Communities, the Environment, and Public Policy

Edited by: Laurel Sefton MacDowell

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442617339

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About this book

In Nuclear Portraits, scholars from Europe, North America, and Asia demonstrate the complexity, controversy, contradictions, and dangers that surround many aspects of the nuclear industry.

Author / Editor information

MacDowell Laurel Sefton :

Laurel Sefton MacDowell is professor emerita in the Department of History at the University of Toronto. Her prior work on environmental history has been recognized by the Ontario Historical Society and the Canadian Historical Association.

Reviews

Jason S. Ridler:

"Nuclear Portraits is an engaging addition to the dialogue on the increasingly complex impact of nuclear affairs, dominated by the relationship between risk and perception. In an age of "fake news" and "alternative facts," such clarion calls are valuable and necessary."

Sonja D. Schmid, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University:

"This is a much-need contribution to nuclear history, one that goes beyond technical, economic, and security related assessments of nuclear energy."

Bryan C. Taylor, Department of Communication, University of Colorado-Boulder:

"Nuclear Portraits is a novel and valuable volume that will assist scholars, policymakers, and the public in coming to grips with the extraordinary set of nuclear challenges. The material is important and there is no easy fix here, but the contributors have done their job of presenting us with studies that inform, illuminate, and compel."

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Introduction Laurel Sefton Macdowell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Keep It Secret: The Environmental Effects of Nuclear Armament in the Soviet Union and the United States Tuomas Räsänen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
The Face of the Earth, the Shadow of the Bomb: Nuclear War and the First International Environmental Conference, “Man’s Role in Changing the Face of the Earth,” Princeton, New Jersey, 1955 Fred Waage Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Experts at Risk: Military Secrets and Italian Radioecology Around the US Naval Nuclear Installation on La Maddalena Davide Orsini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
The Calvert Cliffs Campaign, 1967–1971: Protecting the Public’s Right to Knowledge Andrew Ramey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
From Pripyat to Paris, from Grassroots Memories to Globalized Knowledge Production: The Politics of Chernobyl Fallout Susanne Bauer, Karena Kalmbach and Tatiana Kasperski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Permanence, Justice, and Nuclear Waste at Prairie Island James W. Feldman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	190
Nuclear Waste Management and Nuclear Power: A Tale of Two Essential US Department of Energy Sites in Idaho and New Mexico Michael Greenberg, Henry Mayer, Charles W. Powers and David Kosson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
Port Hope Burning: The Trail of Eldorado, the Uranium Medical Research Centre, and Community Tension over Scientific Uncertainty David Elijah Bell and Marissa Zappora Bell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	238
“Nuclear Gypsies” in Fukushima before and after 3/11 Paul Jobin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	274
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	312

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 6
- Other: 6 colour illustrations, 8 b&w illustrations

eBook

Published: April 3, 2017
ISBN: 9781442617339