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Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.36 — 71,293 ratings — published 2019
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.23 — 12,121 ratings — published 2018
Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.40 — 67,412 ratings — published 1997
Atomic Accidents: A History of Nuclear Meltdowns and Disasters: From the Ozark Mountains to Fukushima (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,976 ratings — published 2014
Atomic Awakening: A New Look at the History and Future of Nuclear Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,114 ratings — published 2009
Manual for Survival: An Environmental History of the Chernobyl Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,297 ratings — published 2019
Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 3.53 — 710 ratings — published 2013
Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.03 — 466 ratings — published 2007
Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 3.62 — 111 ratings — published 2004
The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.41 — 25,218 ratings — published 1986
Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,794 ratings — published 2022
How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor (Springer Praxis Books)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.53 — 249 ratings — published
Producing Power: The Pre-Chernobyl History of the Soviet Nuclear Industry (Inside Technology)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 3.83 — 30 ratings — published 2015
Trinity: A Graphic History of the First Atomic Bomb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,652 ratings — published 2012
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,487 ratings — published 2013
The Rise of Nuclear Fear (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 3.91 — 57 ratings — published 2012
Hiroshima (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.06 — 93,187 ratings — published 1946
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.27 — 15,038 ratings — published 2013
Radiation Nation: Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.00 — 25 ratings — published
Nuclear Energy: What Everyone Needs to Know® (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 3.76 — 152 ratings — published 2011
The Twilight of the Bombs: Recent Challenges, New Dangers, and the Prospects for a World Without Nuclear Weapons (The Making of the Nuclear Age Book 4)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.08 — 347 ratings — published 2010
Uranium: War, Energy and the Rock That Shaped the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 3.87 — 2,470 ratings — published 2009
Earth is a Nuclear Planet: The Environmental Case for Nuclear Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.48 — 25 ratings — published
The Case For Nukes: How We Can Beat Global Warming and Create a Free, Open, and Magnificent Future (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.53 — 130 ratings — published 2023
Economics of Nuclear Power (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Why Nuclear Power Has Been a Flop: at Solving the Gordian Knot of Electricity Poverty and Global Warming (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.60 — 15 ratings — published
The Obsolescence of the Human (Volume 75) (Posthumanities)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.06 — 17 ratings — published
Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,755 ratings — published 2021
Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 3.80 — 7,392 ratings — published 2016
Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,163 ratings — published 2017
Idaho Falls: The Untold Story of America's First Nuclear Accident (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,035 ratings — published 2003
Hiroshima, 8:15: The Lost Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.11 — 377 ratings — published 2026
Empire of Ashes: Truman, Hirohito, and the Descent into Total War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.47 — 83 ratings — published 2026
Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 3.28 — 1,087 ratings — published 2014
Chernobyl and Nuclear Power in the USSR (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 3.50 — 6 ratings — published 1986
Fundamentals of Nuclear Reactor Physics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 3.77 — 13 ratings — published 2008
Introduction to Nuclear Reactor Physics (500 Tips)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,827 ratings — published 2012
Gathering Rare Ores: The Diplomacy of Uranium Acquisition, 1943-1954 (Princeton Legacy Library)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1986
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.09 — 7,198 ratings — published 1973
Uncertain Empire: American History and the Idea of the Cold War (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.12 — 8 ratings — published 2012
Ablaze: The Story of the Heroes and Victims of Chernobyl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 3.89 — 379 ratings — published 1993
Atomic Dreams: The New Nuclear Evangelists and the Fight for the Future of Energy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 3.78 — 144 ratings — published
The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power, and Survival (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 3.99 — 165 ratings — published 2025
Fusion-Fission Hybrid Nuclear Reactors: For enhanced nuclear fuel utilization and radioactive waste reduction (Energy Engineering)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Star Builders: Nuclear Fusion and the Race to Power the Planet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 3.94 — 638 ratings — published 2021
Rad Future: The Untold Story of Nuclear Electricity and How It Will Save the World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.03 — 143 ratings — published
Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,032 ratings — published 2025
Doomsday Men: The Real Dr. Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 4.16 — 123 ratings — published 2007
Survival City: Adventures Among the Ruins of Atomic America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as nuclear-energy)
avg rating 3.49 — 121 ratings — published 2002
“Because both nuclear and fossil plants are widely used in today’s power sector, building them into the future electricity mix would be least disruptive to the status quo.”
― Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet
― Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet
“Nuclear waste is unlike other wastes. It is not only the danger…but the timescale. Trash inside a landfill might decay over decades, plastics over hundreds or thousands of years - the truth is we don’t know yet. But the half-life of Plutonium-239 created inside the reactor cores of nuclear power plants is 24,100 years. Uranium-235, the fuel used to power the reactors, has a half-life of 700 million years. To dispose of nuclear waste is to think in geological time. Uranium is older than the Earth, forged more than 6 billion years ago by exploding supernovae and colliding neutron stars. It is, by any measure, a miraculous element: a single pellet barely larger than a multivitamin can generate as much energy as a ton of coal, without any direct carbon emissions”
― Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
― Wasteland: The Secret World of Waste and the Urgent Search for a Cleaner Future
