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Reyes, José N., and John B. King. Nuclear engineering. In Encyclopedia of energy, v. 4. Amsterdam, Boston, Elsevier Academic Press, c2004. p. 315-331. Tabak, John. Nuclear energy. New York, Facts On File, c2009. 206 p. Wood, Michael Burke. Nuclear energy: technology. In Encyclopedia of energy engineering and technology, v. 2. Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press, c2007. p. 1125-1133.
Subject headings used by the Library of Congress, under which books on nuclear energy can be located in most card, book, and online catalogs, include the following:
Angelo, Joseph A. Nuclear technology. Westport, CT, Greenwood Press, 2004. 638 p. Bodansky, David. Nuclear energy: principles, practices, and prospects. 2nd ed. New York, Springer, c2004. 693 p. Murray, Raymond LeRoy. Nuclear energy: an introduction to the concepts, systems, and applications of nuclear processes. 6th ed. Burlington, VT, Butterworth-Heinemann/Elsevier, 2009. 532 p. Newton, David E. Nuclear power. New York, Facts On File, c2006. 300 p.
America's energy future: technology and transformation. Committee on America's Energy Future, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, National Research Council of the National Academies. Washington, National Academies Press, c2009. 711 p. Botkin, Daniel B., and Diana Pérez. Powering the future: a scientist’s guide to energy independence. UpperSaddle River, NJ, FT Press, c2010. 330 p. Jevremovic, Tatjana. Nuclear principles in engineering. New York, Springer, c2005. 442 p. Knief, Ronald Allen. Nuclear engineering: theory and technology of commercial nuclear power. 2nd ed. LaGrange Park, IL, American Nuclear Society, c2008. 770 p. McElroy, Michael B. Energy: perspectives, problems, and prospects. Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 2010. 409 p. Montgomery, Scott L. The powers that be: global energy for the twenty-first century and beyond. Chicago, London, University of Chicago Press, c2010. 350 p. Shultis, J. Kenneth, and Richard E. Faw. Fundamentals of nuclear science and engineering. 2nd ed. Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press, c2008. 591 p. Stacey, Weston M. Nuclear reactor physics. 2nd ed. Weinheim, Wiley-VCH, c2007. 706 p. Sustainable nuclear power. Editors, Galen J. Suppes, Truman S. Storvick. Amsterdam, Boston, Elsevier/Academic Press, c2007. 393 p. Sweet, William. Kicking the carbon habit: global warming and the case for renewable and nuclear energy. New York, Columbia University Press, c2006. 256 p.
Advanced nuclear fuel cycles and radioactive waste management. Paris, Nuclear Energy Agency, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, c2006. 244 p. Biosphere implications of deep disposal of nuclear waste: the upwards migration of radionuclides in vegetated soils. H. S. Wheater and others. London, Imperial College Press, c2007. 402 p. (Series on environmental science and management, v. 5) Cochran, Robert G., and Nicholas Tsoulfanidis. The nuclear fuel cycle: analysis and management. 2nd ed. La Grange Park, IL, American Nuclear Society, 1999. 381 p. Considering timescales in the post-closure safety of geological disposal of radioactive waste. Paris, Nuclear Energy Agency, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, c2009. 159 p. Flüeler, Thomas. Decision making for complex socio-technical systems: robustness from lessons learned in long-term radioactive waste governance. Dordrecht, Springer, 2006. 357 p. (Environment & policy, v. 42) Going the distance: the safe transport of spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste in the United States. Committee on Transportation of Radioactive Waste, Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council of the National Academies. Washington, National Academies Press, c2006. The Nuclear fuel cycle: from ore to wastes. Edited by P. D. Wilson. Oxford, New York, Oxford University Press, 1996. 323 p. Nuclear fuels: manufacturing processes, forms, and safety. Antoine Lesage and Jérôme Tondreau, editors. New York, Nova Science Publishers, c2010. 373 p. The Regulatory control of radioactive waste management: overview of 15 NEA member countries. Paris, Nuclear Energy Agency, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, c2004. 205 p. (Radioactive waste management, no. 3597) The Safety of the nuclear fuel cycle. 3rd ed. Paris, Nuclear Energy Agency, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, c2005. 319 p. Sherman, Daniel J. Not here, not there, not anywhere: politics, social movements, and the disposal of low-level radioactive waste. Washington, RFF Press, 2011. 241 p. Smith, Brice. Insurmountable risks: the dangers of using nuclear power to combat global climate change. Takoma Park, MD, IEER Press; Muskegon, MI, RDR Books, c2006. 429 p. Takada, Jun. Nuclear hazards in the world: field studies on affected populations and environments. Tokyo, Kodansha; Berlin, New York, Springer, c2005. 134 p.
National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Improving Practices for Regulating and Managing Low-Activity Radioactive Waste. Improving the regulation and management of low-activity radioactive wastes. Washington, National Academies Press, c2006. 209 p. United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality. Next steps toward permanent nuclear waste disposal: hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and Air Quality of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Tenth Congress, second session, July 15, 2008. Washington, U.S. G.P.O., 2008. 92 p.
Abstracting and indexing services that index relevant journal articles and other periodical literature on nuclear energy are listed below. Please consult a reference librarian for the location of abstracting and indexing services in the Science Reading Room as well as current status of online database services, both subscription and open-access.
JOURNALS that often contain relevant articles include the following:
Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues American Nuclear Society Energy Information Administration (U.S. Department of Energy) Nuclear Energy Institute Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Location Codes for Items in the Library of Congress Reference
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