Nuclear Power – Cure For Global Warming?

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Websites

UK Weather 2080 – Global Warming Predictions
www.channel4.com/science/microsites
/U/ukweather2080/
Global warming is changing the climate. What will become of the Great British weather? Powerful computers have been attempting to predict this. You can find out here what's in store for us.

Global Warming – Back to the Future
www.channel4.com/science/microsites
/S/ science/nature/globalwarming.html
Looks back at global temperature fluctuations of the past and asks whether man's impact on the current climate is cause for concern.

The Environment
www.channel4.com/science/microsites/E/
environment/index.html
Global warming – out of your control? No, it's not. Get back to basics and find out some of the simple things you can do to ensure a safe future for you and yours.

Environmental Issues
http://environment.about.com/od/nuclearpower
What are the benefits and dangers of this power source? Is it really as clean as the nuclear industry says it is? This site features some interesting links, such as a FreeSpeech TV video link relating to the case of workers at the government's nuclear production facility in Hanford, Washington, the most polluted site in the US, who were penalized, personally harassed and fired for reporting unsafe conditions and practice.

How Nuclear Power Works
http://people.howstuffworks.com/nuclear-power.htm
This site, part of the Howstuffworks website, provides clearly presented information about how nuclear power works and how safe it is. Written in simple language for the general public, it nonetheless explains how a nuclear reactor and a power plant work and what nuclear fission and supercriticality are.

International Atomic Energy Agency
www.iaea.org
The official site of the world organisation whose mandate is to work for the safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear technologies. Has considerable information about symposiums, and conferences in the nuclear field as well as an archive of relevant press releases and articles.

Nuclear Energy
www.envirolink.org/topics.html?
topic=Nuclear%20Energy&topicsku=2002116191
530&topictype=subtopic
A sublink on the Envirolink website which is an online environmental community. There are a multitude of links to various international organisations that examine nuclear energy, its impact on the environment and human health and what alternatives are available.

Nuclear Waste
www.nuclearwaste.com
A huge resource for articles about waste and waste disposal.

The Politics of Carbon www.channel4.com/science/microsites/S/science
/nature/politics_of_carbon.html Scientists calculate that the only way to prevent devastating climate change is to reduce global carbon emissions by about 60% from today's levels by 2050. How will the international community tackle this? Can the politicians pull it off?

Books

	Double or Quits? The future of civil nuclear energy by Malcolm C Grimston and Peter Beck (Earthscan, 2002) This culmination of a two-year study provides an objective assessment of the major disputes on the controversial future role of nuclear fuel and clarification of the main issues influencing the future of nuclear energy. Get this book
	Nuclear Energy: Principles, practices, and prospects by David Bodansky (Springer-Verlag, 2004) The world faces serious difficulties in obtaining the energy that will be needed in coming decades for a growing population, especially given the problem of climate change caused by fossil fuel use. This book presents a view of nuclear energy as an important carbon-free energy option. It discusses the nuclear fuel cycle, the types of reactors used today and proposed for the future, nuclear waste disposal, reactor accidents and reactor safety, nuclear weapon proliferation, and the cost of electric power. Get this book

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