No immediate danger
by William T. Vollmann · first published 2018
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The first volume in a timely series about climate change and energy generation focuses on the consequences of nuclear-power production through the events and aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in 2011. "The first of two volumes of William T. Vollmann's magisterial reckoning with the most important issue of our time. In his nonfiction, William T. Vollmann has won acclaim as a singular voice tackling everything from poverty to violence to American imperialism as it has played out on the U.S./Mexico border. Now he turns to a topic that will define generations to come--the human
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…the building of the plant, etc., but the actual carbon expended to achieve a workable fissionable fuel. This process was brought to my attention in the long, detailed chapter on Uranium enrichment in _No Immediate Danger: Volume One of Carbon Ideologies_ by William Vollmann.[1] It's really quite amazing how many steps are involved and how expensive those steps are in terms of embedded carbon cost. In the absence of…
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