Before It's Too Late: A Scientist's Case for Nuclear Energy [Hardcover]

B.L. Cohen (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 308 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (August 31, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0306414252
• ISBN-13: 978-0306414251
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,687,456 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books about nuclear power, April 30, 2007

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This review is from: Before It's Too Late: A Scientist's Case for Nuclear Energy (Hardcover)

I read this book just before starting college, and it is one of the reasons I got a degree in nuclear engineering. This book was written after Three Mile Island but before Chernobyl so some statistics may have changed. The overall physics and risk analyses have not changed one bit. There are responses to every challenge nuclear energy has faced, and nuclear energy comes out as the undisputed champion of sustainable energy needed in the future. Too many people think Helen Caldicott and her ilk have all the undisputed arguments against nuclear power, when in fact Bernard Cohen answered all of them quite adeptly 20 years ago. This is the book everyone needs to start with to understand nuclear power.