User:Macquigg/Sandbox/Nuclear power reconsidered/Bibliography

General References

World Nuclear Information Library a well-organized authoritative collection of information on nuclear power.
Our World in Data has a section on Energy and Environment with nice interactive graphics.
Mark Z. Jacobson (2020). 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 1108790836.
Christopher Clack's Critique of Jacobson's 100% Renewables Proposal Proc. National Academy of Sciences 2017 114 (26) 6722-6727.
Derek Abbott, Is Nuclear Power Globally Scalable? Proceedings of the IEEE, October 2011, pp.1611-17. A paper frequently quoted by anti-nuclear advocates, alleging fifteen "fundamental engineering and resource scaling limits that make the notion of a nuclear utopia somewhat impractical".
Edwin Lyman, Union of Concerned Scientists, March 2021, Advanced Isn’t Always Better "Assessing the Safety, Security, and Environmental Impacts of Non-Light-Water Nuclear Reactors".

Nuclear Power Debate Firing Line 2021 - the best arguments from both sides.
Pandora's Promise 2013 documentary examines some of the widespread beliefs about the dangers of nuclear energy.
Why renewables can’t save the planet | Michael Shellenberger | TEDxDanubia 2019. An environmental activist who now supports nuclear power.
Chernobyl - HBO Miniseries 2019 Emmy and Golden Globe winning miniseries, grossly exaggerates radiation dangers. See the review in Forbes by James Conca, environmental scientist. How HBO Got It Wrong On Chernobyl
Collection of videos on nuclear power by Gordon McDowell, Canadian videographer.

Kryuchkov et.al. (2011) 'Isotopic Uranium and Plutonium Denaturing as an Effective Method for Nuclear Fuel Proliferation Protection in Open and Closed Fuel Cycles' https://www.doi.org/10.5772/17822 How nuclear fuel can be made useless for bombs by denaturing (diluting fissile isotopes with hard-to-separate non-fissile, e.g. diluting U-235 with U-238) and by adding a radiation barrier (isotopes that will make stolen fuel easy to detect, hard to handle, and make a bomb fizzle, not detonate).

Advanced Reactors Information System IAEA Database on Advanced Nuclear Power Reactors
ThorCon Isle details of a complete power plant.
Natrium Sodium cooled fast reactor.

Abbott, D. (2016) "Nuclear Power: Game Over", AQ: Australian Quarterly, 87(4), 8–16,40. http://www.jstor.org/stable/24877873
Jacobson, M., et.al. (2022) "Zero air pollution and zero carbon from all energy at low cost and without blackouts in variable weather throughout the U.S. with 100% wind-water-solar and storage", Renewable Energy, 184, 430-442. https://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/21-USStates-PDFs/21-USStatesPaper.pdf
Lyman, E., (2021) "Advanced Isn’t Always Better 'Assessing the Safety, Security, and Environmental Impacts of Non-Light-Water Nuclear Reactors', Union of Concerned Scientists, March 2021. https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/2021-05/ucs-rpt-AR-3.21-web_Mayrev.pdf
Sovacool, B.K., Schmid, P., Stirling, A. et al. Differences in carbon emissions reduction between countries pursuing renewable electricity versus nuclear power. Nat Energy 5, 928–935 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41560-020-00696-3
https://thebreakthrough.org/issues/energy/on-anti-nuclear-bullshit