Health, Reactors & Climate

REFERENCES

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Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation:

Radiation Hazards (evolving introduction by Jess Brewer)

Radiation & Health (presentation by Alex Cannara - 2013)

BEIR-VII (National Academies - 2006)   &   Critique thereof (2018)

International Commission on Radiological Protection:

Recommendations of the ICRP:   1990 | 1991 | 1996 | 2007 | 2020 | 2021

RBE and other "Fudge Factors" (2003)

Studies of Specific Events:

Chernobyl: IAEA conf. (2005)   &   WHO (2006)   &   UNSCEAR (2017)   &   Samet et al. (2018)

Fukushima: UNSCEAR (2015)   &   UNSCEAR (2016)   &   UNSCEAR (2017)

Energy Use and Sources:

Global Sources of Electricity (live map)

Global Energy Mix (Our World in Data - 2024)

Geothermal Energy (courtesy of Andy Van Horn)

Artificial Carbon-Neutral Liquid Hydrocarbon Fuels

Modern Reactor Designs:

Conventional Fission Reactor Designs (WNA 2020)

Economics of Existing Designs (WNA 2008)   &   UPDATE (WNA 2020)

Generation III+ Reactors (WNA 2020)

Generation IV Reactors (WNA 2019)

Small Modular Reactors (WNA 2020)

Molten Salt Reactors (WNA 2021)

Small Modular Thorium Reactors (Kirk Sorensen)   &   CRITIQUE thereof (Fairewinds 2012)

Critique of SMRs in general (GTM 2020)

The Main Problem:

Nuclear Power and the Public (Ramana 2011)

The Two Lies that Killed Nuclear Power (Devanney 2022)

Global Climate Change:

State of the Global Climate 2020 (World Meteorological Organization - 2021)

Role of Soil in Sequestering Carbon: Phil Gregory & Freeman Dyson

See also "Kiss the Ground" movie

Jess H. Brewer -   -   Last modified: Tue Feb 15 10:20:19 PST 2022