In this Book
- The Reporter's Handbook on Nuclear Materials, Energy & Waste Management
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Vanderbilt University Press
Each "brief" is based on interviews with named scientists, engineers, or administrators in a nuclear specialty, and each has been reviewed by a team of independent experts. The objective is not to make a case for or against nuclear-related technologies, but rather to provide definitive background information. (The approach is based on that of The Reporter's Environmental Handbook, published in 1988, which won a special award for journalism from the Sigma Delta Chi Society of professional journalists.)
Other features of the book include: a glossary of hundreds of terms, an introduction to risk assessment, environmental and economic impacts, and public perceptions, an article by an experienced reporter with recommendations about how to cover nuclear issues, quick guides to the history of nuclear power in the United States, important federal legislation and regulations, nuclear position statements, and key organizations, print and electronic resources.
Table of Contents
- About CRESP
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Part I: Getting Started
- How to Use the Handbook
- pp. 3-4
- Crosscutting Themes
- pp. 8-22
- Part II:Briefs
- Nuclear Power Plant Safety Systems
- pp. 78-84
- Decommissioning Nuclear Facilities
- pp. 93-113
- Transportation of Nuclear Waste
- pp. 99-109
- The Economics of Nuclear Power
- pp. 110-119
- Dirty Bombs (Radiological Dispersal Devices)
- pp. 172-178
- Nuclear Nonproliferation
- pp. 179-186
- International Agencies and Policy
- pp. 195-200
- Section 5: Global Warming and Fuel Sources
- pp. 201-209
- Risk Communicationabout Nuclear Materials
- pp. 218-224
- Part III:
- Important Federal Legislationand Regulations
- pp. 233-244
- American Nuclear SocietyPosition Statements
- pp. 245-246
- Key Sources
- pp. 249-250
- Contributors
- pp. 287-292