Sources used in preparation of Web Notes (in approximate Web Note presentation order):

Growing Support for Nuclear's Role in Mitigating Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists Now Supports Nuclear Power, The Climate Coalition, November 2018 (link / cached copy)

The Nuclear Power Dilemma, Union of Concerned Scientists, November 2018 (link / cached copy)

Activists Who Embrace Nuclear Power, The New Yorker, February 2021 (link / cached copy) 

Why Even Environmentalists are Supporting Nuclear Power Today, National Public Radio, August 2022 (link / cached copy) 

Physics of Nuclear Reactors & Bombs

For a long read about the origins of nuclear physics and development of nuclear weapons, I recommend:

The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes (ISBN 978-1-4516-7761-4), Simon & Schuster (1986)

Critical Mass, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

Purification (Enrichment) of Nuclear Fuel:

Isotope Separation and Enrichment, Britannica (link /cached copy)

Isotope Separation, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

Enriched Uranium, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

What is High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU), U.S. Department of Energy (link / cached copy)

Norwegian Heavy Water Sabotage, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

Manhattan Project Isotope Enrichment Plants

Manhattan Project, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

Enriching Uranium - Manhattan Project, National Park Service (link / cached copy)

S-50 (Manhattan Project), Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

K-25, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

Y-12 National Security Complex, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

Hanford Site, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

Hanford Nuclear Reservation - Hanford Cleanup Overview, U.S. Department of Energy (link / cached copy)

Hanford Nuclear Waste Cleanup Costs, U.S. Government Accountability Office, 2022 (link / cached copy)

Technology of Nuclear Bombs

Gun-Type Fission Weapon, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

Little Boy, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

Fat Man, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

Technology of Nuclear Reactors

CRS Report to Congress – "Power Plants: Characteristics and Costs" - 2008 (link / cached copy)

Pressurized Water Reactor (PWR) - as at Three Mile Island

Pressurized Water Reactor, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

Pressurized Water Reactors, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (link / cached copy)

Pressurized Water Reactors (animation), Nuclear Regulatory Commission (link / cached copy)

Pressurized Water Reactor Systems, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (link / cached copy)

Pressurized Water Reactor, Energy Education - Canada (link / cached copy)

Reaktor Bolshoy Moshchnosti Kanalnyy (RMBK) - as at Chernobyl

RBMK, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

Void Coefficient, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

Boiling Water Reactor (BWR) - as at Fukushima

Boiling Water Reactor, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

Boiling Water Reactors, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (link / cached copy)

Boiling Water Reactors (animation), Nuclear Regulatory Commission (link / cached copy)

Boiling Water Reactor Systems, Nuclear Regulatory Commission (link / cached copy)

Boiling Water Reactor, Energy Education - Canada (link / cached copy)

Nuclear Bomb vs. Nuclear Reactor Comparisons

Beyond Oppenheimer: How Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Reactors are Different, U.S. Department of Energy (link / cached copy)

Three Mile Island Accident

Three Mile Island Accident, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

Report of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island, 1979 (link / cached copy)

Backgrounder on the Three Mile Island Accident, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (link/ cached copy)

Three Mile Island Accident, World Nuclear Association (link / cached copy)

Three Mile Island closure, Graphic News (link / cached copy)

Site of earlier near disaster in identical reactor:

Davis–Besse Nuclear Power Station, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

Chernobyl Accident

For a long read about the Chernobyl Disaster, I recommend:

Midnight in Chernobyl by Adam Higginbotham (ISBN 978-1-978-1-5011-3416-6), Simon & Schuster (2019)

Chernobyl Disaster, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

The Chernobyl Accident - International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group - 1992 (link / cached copy)

Chernobyl Accident - World Nuclear Organization - Updated 2014 (link / cached copy)

Chernobyl - Role of the Armed Forces, Schollufsin.ru, 2021 (link / cached copy)

Three Decades after Chernobyl - Technical or Human Causes, The Technological and Economic Future of Nuclear Power, 2019 (link / cached copy)

Fukushima Accident

2011 Tōhoku Earthquake and Tsunami, Wikipedia (link / cached copy) 

Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

Fukushima Danii Nuclear Power Plant, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

Fukushima Nuclear Accident, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

Preliminary Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Daiichi Accident, International Atomic Energy Agency
(link / cached copy)

Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident, National Research Council of the U.S. National Academies (link / cached copy)

What Happened at Fukushima - A Technical Perspective, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 2011 (link / cached copy)

Overview of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Accident, The Federation of Electric Power Companies of Japan - FEPC (link / cached copy)

Greater Danger Lies in Spent Fuel than in Reactors, The New York Times, 2011 (link / cached copy)

Fukushima Ten Years Later - The Catastrophic Accident and its Consequences, German Federal Office for the Safety of Nuclear Waste Management (link / cached copy)

Melting Points of Metals, Fractory (link / cached copy)

Fukusima-like Oceanfront U.S. Nuclear Reactor Sites

Humboldt Bay Nuclear Power Plant

Humboldt Bay Nuclear Power Plant, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

California Town Still Scarred by 1964 Tsunami, National Public Radio, 2005 (link / cached copy)

Crescent City - California, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

San Onofre Nuclear Plant

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant

Diablo Canyon Power Plant, Wikipedia (link / cached copy)

Greenhouse Gas Impact of Nuclear Reactor's Concrete:

Inventory of U.S. Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990 - 2022, Environmental Protection Agency, 2024, Section 2.2: Emissions from all sources / Section 4.1 Emissions due to cement production (link / cached copy)

U.S. Annual Production of Portland Cement, U.S. Geological Survey (link / cached copy)

ACC's Mega Kiln Line Project, Cement.com - December 2011 (link / cached copy)

Concrete: Scientific Principles, Materials Science & Technology Teacher's Workshop, University of Illinois
(link / cached copy)

Construction of Nuclear Power Stations, ConcreteConstruction.net - 1 October 1961 (link / cached copy)

 

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