References:
There will be references to the pro-nuclear popular literature, the anti-nuclear popular literature and the technical literature.
The Health Hazards of not Going Nuclear by Petr Beckmann, Golem Press.
Before it is Too Late by Bernard Cohen, 1984. Pro-nuclear.
Poisoned Power by John W. Gofman and Arthur R. Tamplin, Rodale Press, Emmaus, Pa., 1971
"The Anti-Nuclear Game," by Gordon Sims, University of Ottawa Press, Ottawa, Ont., 1990.
"Energy Risk Assessment," by Herbert Inhaber, Gordon and Breach, 1982.

Some links:
There are now many excellent sources of information about nuclear energy in the form of Web pages. Some of them are official and others were created by interested individuals and organizations.

Nucnet is a Nuclear News Agency operated by the European Nuclear Society.

Nuclear plants in the U.S. are regulated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. It is a good place to find out about regulations and the NRC's proposals for regulations.

2003 July: The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan has just put up a web site.

The University of Texas student chapter of the American Nuclear Society has a particularly good Web page.

The International Atomic Energy Agency is the U.N. agency concerned with nuclear matters including technology, safety and nonproliferation. It was they who inspected Iraq's reactors with not entirely satisfactory results.

The World Nuclear Association in London is an international industrial association for energy from nuclear fuel.

Nuke Home Page has many references including the pages of individual power plants and also relevant engineering societies.

By now there are too many good Web references on nuclear energy for me to keep track of. Two good ones are Joe Gonyeau's Virtual Nuclear Tourist and Jeremy Whitlock's Canadian Nuclear FAQ.

The Uranium Information Center - Australia specializes in Australian production and marketing of uranium. However, it has some of the best expositions of some topics related to nuclear energy. These include military warheads as a source of nuclear fuel, occupational safety in uranium mines, the international status of nuclear power, the economics of nuclear power, world energy needs and nuclear power, plutonium (toxicity questions), plans for new reactors worldwide, Japanese waste shipment from Europe and global warming.

Joe Gonyeau's nuclear tourist site surveys nuclear power plants around the world.
Rod Adams publishes an on-line magazine Atomic Energy Insights . It has many references to advanced applications of nuclear energy that were studied years ago and dropped as everything nuclear became politically difficult. These include the NERVA nuclear rocket project and the light water breeder reactor. This was Admiral Rickover's last project. The idea was that very careful design could make a light water reactor breeder. It seems to have been successful, but the project was abandoned.

The World Council of Nuclear Workers has an excellent web page in French.
Nuclear explosions also have peaceful uses. We propose an international institute to study them.

The International Atomic Energy Agency is U.N. agency concerned with nuclear energy.

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