Let's Discuss Energy Resources: Nuclear Power

Author: Louise Spilsbury Richard Spilsbury
Publisher: Wayland (Publishers) Ltd
Category: Sciences, Technology
Age Group: 9+
Book Format: Paperback

Fully updated in 2015, this book examines the debates surrounding nuclear power, an important non-renewable energy resource. It looks at why it is central to the debate about future power supplies because of its much smaller impact on global warming than fossil fuel power. Are the benefits of nuclear power outweighed by its environmental impacts? How does it compare with renewables as an economic alternative to fossil fuel power? Find out in this in Let's Discuss Nuclear Power!Let's Discuss Energy is an innovative series of books that examines the issues and changing technologies that surround the use of renewable and non-renewable resources for world power needs. An excellent study tool for children at Key Stage 2.

Table Of Contents
1: Nuclear power as an energy resource

2: What is nuclear energy?

3: Nuclear fuel

4: How nuclear power stations work

5: Radioactive waste

6: Dealing with nuclear waste

7: Nuclear accidents

8: Other impacts of nuclear power

9: The cost of nuclear power

10: Encouraging nuclear power

11: Protesting against nuclear power

12: New nuclear technology

13: The future for nuclear power

14: Nuclear activity
About Richard Spilsbury
Richard and Louise Spilsbury have worked in educational publishing for more than 20 years. Between them they have written nearly 200 information books on a variety of subjects, ranging from science and natural history, geography and the environment, to teen issues and the arts.

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SKU BK-9780750294515
Barcode # 9780750294515
Brand Wayland (Publishers) Ltd
Artist / Author Louise Spilsbury Richard Spilsbury
Shipping Weight 0.1600kg
Shipping Width 0.220m
Shipping Length 0.250m
Assembled Length 25.400m
Assembled Height 0.300m
Assembled Width 21.900m
Type Paperback

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