 | Nuclear Power, Man and the Environment Subjects: Built Environment; Global Development; Economics Finance Business & Industry; Engineering & Technology; Environment and Sustainability; Geography; Politics & International Relations; Social Sciences; Energy; Development Policy; Environment & the Global South; Power & Energy; Environmental Policy; Environmental Politics; Environmental Issues; Environment & Resources; Environment & Economics; Planning; Economics; Industry & Industrial Studies; Human Geography; Regulatory Policy; Sociology & Social Policy; Energy policy and economics; Fossil and nuclear energy; Planning and Sustainability; Industrial Economics; Energy & Fuels; Environmental Geography; Energy Policy; Sociology of Science & Technology; Energy Industries & Utilities; Originally published in 1980. A clear understanding of how radioactivity moves through the environment is essential to discussions on nuclear power. This book describes, in didactic rather than polemic style, the nature of radioactivity, how it arises in the day-to-day running of nuclear reactors, how and why a small fraction is introduced into the environment in a controlled manner, and on what basis judgements on these processes should be made. |
