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  • Reflections on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident

    Toward Social-Scientific Literacy and Engineering Resilience

    Edited by Joonhong Ahn, Cathryn Carson, Mikael Jensen, Kohta Juraku, Shinya Nagasaki, Satoru Tanaka ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book focuses on nuclear engineering education in the post-Fukushima era. It was edited by the organizers of the summer school held in August 2011 in University of California, Berkeley, as part of a collaborative program between the University of Tokyo and UC Berkeley. Motivated by the particular relevance and importance of social-scientific approaches to various crucial aspects of nuclear ... Read more

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  • Geological Repository Systems for Safe Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuels and Radioactive Waste

    Edited by Michael J Apted, Joonhong Ahn ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy
    Geological Repository Systems for Safe Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuels and Radioactive Waste, Second Edition, critically reviews state-of-the-art technologies and scientific methods relating to the implementation of the most effective approaches to the long-term, safe disposition of nuclear waste, also discussing regulatory developments and social engagement approaches as major themes. Chapters in ... Read more

    $322.39 CAD

  • Resilience: A New Paradigm of Nuclear Safety

    From Accident Mitigation to Resilient Society Facing Extreme Situations

    Edited by Joonhong Ahn, Franck Guarnieri, Kazuo Furuta ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book summarizes presentations and discussions from the two-day international workshop held at UC Berkeley in March 2015, and derives questions to be addressed in multi-disciplinary research toward a new paradigm of nuclear safety. The consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in March 2011 have fuelled the debate on ... Read more

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  • Geological Repository Systems for Safe Disposal of Spent Nuclear Fuels and Radioactive Waste

    Edited by Michael J Apted, Joonhong Ahn ...
    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy
    Geological disposal has been internationally adopted as the most effective approach to assure the long-term, safe disposition of the used nuclear fuels and radioactive waste materials produced from nuclear power generation, nuclear weapons programs, medical, treatments, and industrial applications. Geological repository systems take advantage of natural geological barriers augmented with ... Read more

    $300.79 CAD

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    Edited by Nick Bostrom, Milan M. Cirkovic ...
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  • A Vast Machine

    Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming

    by Paul N. Edwards ...
    Series series Infrastructures
    The science behind global warming, and its history: how scientists learned to understand the atmosphere, to measure it, to trace its past, and to model its future.Global warming skeptics often fall back on the argument that the scientific case for global warming is all model predictions, nothing but simulation; they warn us that we need to wait for real data, “sound science.” In A Vast Machine ... Read more

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  • Applied Nanotechnology

    by Jeremy Ramsden, Jeremy Ramsden ...
    Series series Micro and Nano Technologies
    Applied Nanotechnology: The Conversion of Research Results to Products examines the commercial and social aspects of nanotechnology. The book is organized into four parts. Part 1 presents an overview of nanotechnology. It discusses the definition of nanotechnology; the relationship between wealth, technology, and science; the relationship between nanotechnology and innovation; and the question of ... Read more

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  • Satellite Earth Observations and Their Impact on Society and Policy

    Edited by Masami Onoda, Oran R Young ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The result of a workshop bringing together an international advisory board of experts in science, satellite technologies, industry innovations, and public policy, this book addresses the current and future roles of satellite Earth observations in solving large-scale environmental problems. The book showcases the results of engaging distinct communities to enhance our ability to identify emerging ... Read more

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  • Nanotechnology and Sustainable Development

    by Claire Auplat ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations
    Public institutions, academic researchers and financial analysts among others hail nanotechnologies as one of the most promising sectors of social and economic development. Calculations predict that it will become a trillion euro industry by 2015 and that it will bring about economic change of at least the same magnitude as the industrial revolution. Nanotechnology is recent, younger by some ... Read more

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  • Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi

    Social, Political and Environmental Issues

    Edited by Richard Hindmarsh ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Science, Technology and Society
    Nuclear Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi is a timely and groundbreaking account of the disturbing landscape of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown amidst an earthquake and tsunami on Japan’s northeast coastline on March 11, 2011. It provides riveting insights into the social and political landscape of nuclear power development in Japan, which significantly contributed to the disaster; the flawed ... Read more

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  • Radical Abundance

    How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization

    by K. Eric Drexler ...
    K. Eric Drexler is the founding father of nanotechnology -- the science of engineering on a molecular level. In Radical Abundance, he shows how rapid scientific progress is about to change our world. Thanks to atomically precise manufacturing, we will soon have the power to produce radically more of what people want, and at a lower cost. The result will shake the very foundations of our economy ... Read more

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  • The Precipice

    Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

    by Toby Ord ...
    In this urgent and “thrillingly written” book, there is a case and solution for humanity’s last shot at survival (Sunday Times).**Humanity’s future is at risk. We face existential catastrophes, climate change, nuclear war, and more. If we do not act fast to reach a place of safety, it will soon be too late.Drawing on over a decade of research, The Precipice explores the cutting-edge science behind ... Read more

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