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This illustrated, educational and thought-provoking book calls on the world's young people to actively mobilise and promote disarmament in 10 practical ways. It focuses on the risks posed by nuclear arms and small weapons. This book is a tool for young people to get involved in mobilising the public at large to participate in developing new strategies to reduce the threats posed by weapons. It will help young people to raise awareness of why disarmament is important for the future of all humankind as well as their own lives. It is recommended as a resource for teenagers and their parents, young adults, as well as high school and university professors, civil society and community leaders.

ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT --- UNITED NATIONS --- Nuclear Disarmament --- Antinuclear Movement --- Political Science --- Nuclear disarmament --- Antinuclear movement --- Political science

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Les grandes victoires que l’humanité a gagnées dans la lutte contre le changement climatique sont rarement reconnues. Serait-ce parce qu’elles ont été gagnées grâce à l’énergie nucléaire ? Pour prévenir les changements climatiques annoncés, la production mondiale d’énergie doit être libérée presque totalement de toute combustion de fossiles d’ici 2050. En même temps, la consommation d’énergie ne cesse de croître, la population augmente et les plus pauvres tentent de se construire une vie meilleure. Avec près de 87 % d’énergie produite avec des combustibles fossiles, le défi est sans précédent par son ampleur et son urgence. Les organisations internationales conviennent que pour le relever, utiliser tous les outils disponibles est indispensable : énergies renouvelables, stockage de l’énergie, effi cacité énergétique, capture et stockage du carbone. Et les centrales nucléaires. Les débats sur l’énergie et l’environnement sont largement dominés par des voix qui affi rment haut et fort que le changement climatique et la pauvreté ne trouveront de solution que grâce aux énergies renouvelables, aux économies d’énergie et à l’efficacité énergétique. Ce livre explique comment cette opinion est largement fondée sur la lecture sélective d’étu des et de rapports pourtant pertinents, sur des voeux pieux quant aux miracles techno logiques et même, sur la falsifi cation ou la mauvaise représentation des chiff res et des faits. L’activisme anti-nucléaire veut-il vraiment donner aux gens les informations pertinentes dont ils ont besoin pour prendre leur décision sur la production d’énergie sans émission de carbone, l’ampleur du défi climatique, et en particulier sur les bénéfi ces et inconvénients de l’énergie nucléaire ? Ou veulent-ils simplement répandre la peur et l’incertitude, faisant ainsi un énorme pari sur le climat, mettant potentiellement en danger la civilisation humaine et l’écosystème de la Terre ?

Nuclear power plants --- Global warming. --- Antinuclear movement --- Environmental aspects. --- Social aspects.

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Nuclear power plants. --- Atomic power plants --- Nuclear power stations --- Nuclear facilities --- Power-plants --- Antinuclear movement --- Nuclear energy

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At the onset of the 21st century, we are searching for reliable and sustainable energy sources that have a potential to support growing economies developing at accelerated growth rates, technology advances improving quality of life and becoming available to larger and larger populations. The quest for robust sustainable energy supplies meeting the above constraints leads us to the nuclear power technology. Today's nuclear reactors are safe and highly efficient energy systems that offer electricity and a multitude of co-generation energy products ranging from potable water to heat for industrial applications. Catastrophic earthquake and tsunami events in Japan resulted in the nuclear accident that forced us to rethink our approach to nuclear safety, requirements and facilitated growing interests in designs, which can withstand natural disasters and avoid catastrophic consequences. This book is one in a series of books on nuclear power published by InTech. It consists of ten chapters on system simulations and operational aspects. Our book does not aim at a complete coverage or a broad range. Instead, the included chapters shine light at existing challenges, solutions and approaches. Authors hope to share ideas and findings so that new ideas and directions can potentially be developed focusing on operational characteristics of nuclear power plants. The consistent thread throughout all chapters is the "system-thinking" approach synthesizing provided information and ideas. The book targets everyone with interests in system simulations and nuclear power operational aspects as its potential readership groups - students, researchers and practitioners.

Nuclear power plants --- Simulation methods. --- Atomic power plants --- Nuclear power stations --- Nuclear facilities --- Power-plants --- Antinuclear movement --- Nuclear energy --- Electrical engineering

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Learning from Fukushima began as a project to respond in a helpful way to the March 2011 triple disaster (earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown) in north-eastern Japan.

Nuclear power plants --- Risk assessment. --- Health aspects --- Evaluation. --- Atomic power plants --- Nuclear power stations --- Nuclear facilities --- Power-plants --- Antinuclear movement --- Nuclear energy --- Risk assessment