New edition of Why Nuclear Power has been a Flop
Version x1 of Why Nuclear Power has been a Flop uploaded to gordianknotbook.com. This is such a major revision, I'm calling it a new Edition. Please consider downloading this version from gordianknotbook.com and trashing any older versions.
Lots and lots of changes, mostly reflecting my own education. The three most important are:
1) switched to a 1 day repair period for SNT,
2) added chapter on childhood thyroid cancer at Chernobyl,
3) the Underwriter Certification chapter has been rewritten to reflect the latest iteration of this form of nuclear power regulation.
I also split the discussion of plutonium and spent nuclear fuel into two chapters. This screws up all the old chapter numbers.
Subsections on the Techa River contamination and the Kyshtym explosion have been added.
Numerous other more minor changes and corrections. A list of changes is attached which may help you locate changes you might be interested in.
Unfortunately the book has morphed from a supposedly accessible to all polemic on why nuclear power has been such a tragic flop, to a sort of reference source, a nearly 400 page tome where you can find info on just about any issue involving nuclear power. Large sections read like a textbook. The PDF has ballooned to 31 megabytes, which some browsers may choke on. Most importantly, the original message --- we must have cheap nuclear power which will take a total rethink of how we regulate nuclear --- has become buried.
Probably time to think about breaking the Flop book up into more palatable chunks.
Jack, we face the same problem at Citizendium - an overwhelming amount of information. You might consider doing what we are - a hierarchy of short articles, with lots of links so people can easily find and dig into whatever details most interest them. LNT? You will find that in our article on Fear of Radiation, one of two featured articles linked in the section on Safety, the first of four sections in our top article - Nuclear Power Reconsidered.
Short of re-organizing your whole book, you might consider short rebuttals to some of the nonsense on our Debate Guide pages, with links to your book. Unlike Wikipedia, we do allow advocacy (and rebuttals) on our Debate Guide pages, just not endless debate. Short slam dunk rebuttals with links to your book and other reliable sources make the best summary arguments.
I'm literally on the penultimate chapter of the original, which I hoped to finish tomorrow.
A well, back to the beginning with me.