Nuclear and Uranium

Secular themes

A deeply cyclical fuel market and a construction industry with a poor cost record, both now attached to a decarbonisation and data-centre demand story.

7 books

Start here

  1. Midnight in ChernobylAdam Higginbotham, 2019
  2. A Bright FutureJoshua S. Goldstein, Staffan A. Qvist, 2019
  3. UraniumTom Zoellner, 2009

Books 7

The Making of the Atomic Bomb
T1 The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes · 1986 · The origin of the industry and its physics, told definitively.
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Chris DixonElon MuskPatrick Collison
Midnight in Chernobyl
T2 Midnight in Chernobyl
Adam Higginbotham · 2019 · The event that set the industry back a generation.
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Casey Neistat
Power to Save the World
T3 Power to Save the World
Gwyneth Cravens · 2007 · A sceptic's conversion, useful on how the public risk perception formed.
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Uranium
T3 Uranium
Tom Zoellner · 2009 · The rock itself: mining, boom towns and the geopolitics of supply.
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Whole Earth Discipline
T3 Whole Earth Discipline
Stewart Brand · 2009 · Environmentalist case for nuclear power, dense cities and genetic engineering
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Marc AndreessenJack DorseyPatrick CollisonStewart Brand
Atomic Accidents
T3 Atomic Accidents
James Mahaffey · 2014 · What actually went wrong, and how much of the fear is proportionate.
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A Bright Future
T3 A Bright Future
Joshua S. Goldstein, Staffan A. Qvist · 2019 · The Sweden-and-France case that nuclear is the fastest decarbonisation path.
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