TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ragaini,Richard C.
AU  - Zichichi,Antonino
ED  - International Seminar on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies
TI  - International seminar on nuclear war and planetary emergencies: 44th session : the role of science in the third millenium : E. Majorana Centre for Scientific Culture, Erice, Italy, 19-24 August 2011 
T2  - Science and culture series. Nuclear strategy and peace techology
SN  - 9814415014
AV  - HV551.2 .I58 2011
U1  - 363.34 22
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New Jersey
PB  - World Scientific
KW  - Emergency management
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Pollution
KW  - Energy crops
KW  - Power resources
KW  - Computer networks
KW  - Security measures
KW  - Nuclear energy
KW  - Disasters
KW  - prevention & control
KW  - Environment
KW  - Climate Change
KW  - Nuclear Energy
KW  - Climat
KW  - Changements
KW  - Congrès
KW  - Cultures énergétiques
KW  - Ressources énergétiques
KW  - Réseaux d'ordinateurs
KW  - Sécurité
KW  - Mesures
KW  - Énergie nucléaire
KW  - climate change
KW  - aat
KW  - nuclear power
KW  - NATURE
KW  - Natural Disasters
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Disasters & Disaster Relief
KW  - fast
KW  - Congress
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Conference papers and proceedings
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Actes de congrès
KW  - rvmgf
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 1. OPENING SESSION; Antonino Zichichi Science, Culture and the Planetary Emergencies; INTRODUCTION; FIRST POINT ANALYSIS OF THE SO-CALLED MODERN CULTURE; Eugeni Velikhov Nuclear Power in Russia-25 Years after Chernobyl; Lord John Alderdice The Potential Positive Impact of the Irrational on the Success of Science; Richard L. Garwin Learning More from Fukushima Dai-ichi; THE PROBLEM OF WATER ACCUMULATION; COMMENT ON THE EVENTS OF FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI; IMPACT OF FUKUSHIMA DAI-ICHI ON THE WORLD NUCLEAR POWER PROGAM; APPENDIX; Richard Wilson Lessons from History of Radiation Use and Nuclear Accidents, Particularly FukushimaTHE IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING RADIATION ISSUES FOR IMMEDIATE ANALYSIS AND IMMEDIATE ACTION; Lady Barbara Thomas Judge Nuclear After Fukushima; Jan Szyszko Forests as a Chance for Sustainable Development of Rural Areas in Light of UN Climate Change Convention and UN Convention on Biodiversity; SUSTAINED DEVELOPMENT; Richard S. Lindzen Climate Physics, Feedbacks, and Reductionism -- When does Reductionism Go too Far?; INTRODUCTION; THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT; SOME OTHER IMPORTANT PHYSICAL CONCEPTS: THE MOIST ADIABAT AND THE ROSSBY RADIUSA FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM WITH ONE DIMENSIONAL CLIMATE THINKING; ARCTIC TEMPERATURES: A PROBLEM WITH ANNUAL AVERAGES; RETURN TO ONE-DIMENSIONAL THINKING: FEEDBACKS; ESTIMATING CLIMATE SENSITIVITY WITH SURFACE FLUXES; VARIABILITY OF CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; CONCLUDING REMARKS; REFERENCES; 2. ENERGY FOCUS: GLOBAL NUCLEAR ENERGY ISSUES AFTER FUKUSHIMA; Tetsuo Yuhara Energy Perspective and Nuclear Role after Fukushima Daiichi Accident; INTRODUCTION; RETHINKING NUCLEAR POWER PLANT SAFETY ISSUES; MITIGATION OF GLOBAL WARMING BY OPTIMUM ENERGY MIXTUREINNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGY AND DEPLOYMENT; ENERGY ISSUE AND ROLE OF NUCLEAR ENERGY AFTER THE FUKUSHIMA DAIICHI ACCIDENT; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Thomas B. Cochran Global Implications of the Fukushima Disaster for Nuclear Power; INTRODUCTION; ISSUES RAISED BY THE FUKUSHIMA DISASTER; SOME IMPLICATIONS FOR NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS WORLDWIDE; PRINCIPAL CONCLUSIONS; Adnan Shihab-Eldin Nuclear Power in the Middle East Following Fukushima; INTRODUCTION; THE CASE FOR NUCLEAR POWER IN MENA; CHALLENGES FOR INTRODUCTION OF NUCLEAR IN MENA; IMPACT OF FUKUSHIMACONCLUSIONS; REFERENCES; Dadi Zhou Nuclear Power Development in China; RAPID GROWTH OF ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND GHG EMISSION; IMPACT OF FUKUSHIMA; CURRENT RESPONSE FROM CHINA; MAJOR LESSONS AND CONCERNS; IMPROVEMENTS; MAJOR CHALLENGES; OPTIMISTIC FOR FUTURE; COOPERATION NEEDED; Jung-Uck Seo Nuclear Power Plants in South Korea; Lowell Wood and Robert Petroski Toward Manifestly Safe Nuclear Fission-Based Electricity Supply; PRESENT SAFETY OF NUCLEAR ENERGY; MANIFEST SAFETY OF NUCLEAR REACTORS; MANIFEST SAFETY OF THE NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES
N2  - Proceedings of the 44th Session of the International Seminars on Nuclear War and Planetary Emergencies held in Erice, Sicily. This seminar has again gathered, in 2011, over one hundred scientists in an interdisciplinary effort that has been going on for the last 31 years, to examine and analyze planetary problems which have been followed up, all year long, by the World Federation of Scientists' Permanent Monitoring Panels. Sample Chapter(s). Science, Culture and the Planetary Emergencies (4,689 KB). Contents: Opening Session; Energy (Focus: Global Nuclear Energy Issues After Fukushima); Water
UR  - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=579477
ER  -