Long Half-life
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Long Half-life

The Nuclear Industry in Australia

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eBook - ePub

Long Half-life

The Nuclear Industry in Australia

About this book

Australia has been directly involved in the nuclear industry for more than a century, but our involvement has never been comprehensively documented. Long Half-life tells the social and political history of Australia's role, from the first discovery of radioactive ores in 1906 to contemporary contentious questions. Should the next generation of submarines be nuclear powered? Can nuclear energy help to slow global climate change? Do we need nuclear weapons for defence? Should we store radioactive waste from nuclear power stations in our region?

Long Half-life is a timely and riveting account of the political, social and scientific complexities of the nuclear industry, revealing the power of vested interests, the subjectivities of scientists and the transformative force of community passion.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. About this Book
  4. Copyright
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1: The Dawn of the Nuclear Age
  7. Chapter 2: From Basic Physics to Awesome Weapons
  8. Chapter 3: Australia and the British Bombs
  9. Chapter 4: The Australian Atomic Energy Commission
  10. Chapter 5: Ranger, the Fox Report and Uranium Exports
  11. Chapter 6: The Politics of Uranium in the 1970s and 1980s
  12. Chapter 7: Chernobyl, Climate Change and Fukushima
  13. Chapter 8: Nuclear Politics in Twenty-first Century Australia
  14. Chapter 9: Radioactive Waste – A Continuing Problem
  15. Chapter 10: Waste and the SA Royal Commission
  16. Chapter 11: Nuclear Politics in 2021
  17. Chapter 12: Australia and Nuclear Weapons
  18. Conclusion
  19. Appendix: ARPANSA and Its Advisory Bodies
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index
  23. Acknowledgements
  24. About the Author