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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Nuclear reading/book list

This is a list of books on nuclear power that I read in the last year.   Any of these books would make an excellent gift to a nuclear industry friend or colleague.
- Terrestrial Energy: Rethinking Nuclear Power in the Age of Global Warming; by William Tucker
- Power to Save the World: The Truth about Nuclear Energy; by Gwyneth Cravens
- 50 Years in Nuclear Power; by Salomon Levy; American Nuclear Society
- The Rickover Effect: How One Man Made a Difference; by Theodore Rockwell
- Nuclear Power Is Not the Answer; by Helen Caldicott (the best of the anti-nuclear books)
- Reactor Accidents, 2nd Ed.; by David Mosey; Nuclear Engineering International
- Plutonium; by Jeremy Bernstein
- Deception: Pakistan, the United States, and the Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons; by Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark