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020 _a030646635X
082 _a333.79
_bKUR
100 _aKursunoglu, Behram N. & others Eds.
245 _aGlobal warming and energy policy
260 _aNew York, Boston etc.
_bKluwer Academic / Plenum Pub.
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300 _axx,220p.
500 _aCONTENTS INTRODUCTION FIVE ISSUES 1 Edward Teller and Behram N. Kursunoglu SOME GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES OF PUBLIC CONCERN.. 11 Richard Wilson A SCIENTIFIC ASSESSMENT OF EMISSION OF GREENHOUSE GASES INTO THE ATMOSPHERE FREE - MARKET APPROACHES TO CONTROLLING CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSIONS TO THE ATMOSPHERE. 31 Klaus Lackner, Richard Wilson, and Hans-Joachim Ziock THE PRECAUTIONARY PRINCIPLE: A GUIDE FOR ACTION 47 Jean Couture NUCLEAR POWER - MEETING TOMORROW'S ELECTRICAL GENERATION PARADIGM 55 C.K. Paulson NUCLEAR ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT: FACTS AND MYTHS NUCLEAR ENERGY IN THE 21st CENTURY 67 Leonard Bennett and C. Pierre Zaleski NUCLEAR PLANT FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE IN A RESTRUCTURED UTILITY YSTEM 105 Shelby T. Brewer GLOBAL WARMING - AN OPPORTUNITY FOR NUCLEAR POWER? WELL YES, BUT 119 Peter Beck and Malcolm Grimston NEAR-TERM DEMONSTRATION OF BENIGN, SUSTAINABLE, NUCLEAR POWER.129 Carl E. Walter ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE; A WORLD AND EUROPEAN OUTLOOK . 139 Domenico Rossetti di Valdalbero GLOBAL WARMING: A SCIENCE OVERVIEW 151 Michael C. MacCracken IS NUCLEAR ENERGY GOING TO MISS ITS ENVIRONMENT MISSION? 161 Juan Eibenschutz CALIFORNIA'S ELECTRICITY PROBLEM - AND THE POTENTIAL WORLD ENERGY DISASTERS..169 .. 169 Bertram Wolfe NUCLEAR ENERGY, NON-PROLIFERATION, AND OTHER CONSIDERATIONS NON-PROLIFERATION ISSUES FOR GENERATION IV POWER SYSTEMS.. 173 Joseph Magill and Roland Schenkel BLACKLIGHT POWER TECHNOLOGY 187 Randell L. Mills.. GAS RESOURCES FOR THE 21st CENTURY.203 Jacques Maire THE FUTURE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY IN THE U.S. .. 213 Angelina S. Howard INDEX..219
890 _aUnited States
891 _aSchool of Planning, CEPT Uni.
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