Recommended Reading

The following inexpensive book is highly recommended for anyone interested in the nuclear energy debate, whether for or against nuclear energy.

Before It's Too Late:
A Scientist's Case For Nuclear Energy

by Dr. Bernard L. Cohen 1983.

Plenum Press
233 Spring Street
New York, NY 10013

ISBN:0-306-41425-2

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From the Foreward:
" This is an important book. Regrettably I doubt if it will be read by the anti-nuclear activists who need it the most...

Rosalyn S. Yallow, Nobel Laureate

From the cover flap:

Up to now the truth about nuclear energy has been consistently distorted to the public. Here a scientist - unaffiliated with the nuclear industry or the government, and the 1981 recipient of the American Physical Society Bonner Prize for basic research in nuclear physics - explains to the layman

How dangerous radiation from a nuclear reactor really is What actually happened at Three Mile Island How risks of different sources of energy compare with risks of everyday life Why nuclear waste is very much less hazardous than the waste from coal burning or solar energy What scientists truly think about radiation hazards, as revealed by a poll published for the first time How time is running out for an inexpensive nuclear program What originated as a scientific question has turned into a political controversy steeped in propaganda. If nothing is done soon to promote a nuclear energy program, electricity in the United States will cost twice as much as in Europe. Before you decide what the truth about nuclear energy is, read Before It's Too Late. It's an eye-opener.

Bernard L. Cohen, D.Sc. has recently served as the Chairman of the American Physical Society Division of Nuclear Physics and Chairman of the American Nuclear Society Division of Environmental Sciences. For his research in nuclear physics, he was awarded the 1981 American Physical Society Bonner Prize. The author of over 200 articles in scientific journals, Dr. Cohen has also written a number of articles for such popular journals as Science Digest, Consumer's Research, Scientific American, Family Health, and Catholic Digest. His three important books, Nuclear Science and Society, Concepts of Nuclear Physics, and Heart of the Atom , have all been highly acclaimed. Dr. Cohen is a professor of physics at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Also:
The following is the information about the book by Alan Walter:

AMERICA THE POWERLESS:
Facing our nuclear energy dilemma

Alan E. Walter, Ph.D.

1995 Cogito Books (Medical Physics Publishing)
4513 Vernon Blvd.
Madison, Wisconsin 53705

(608)262-4021

ISBN 0-944838-58-8

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The Foreward by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg:
For decades it has been clear to the scientific community that nuclear energy is destined to play an ever-increasing role for the generation of electricity throughout the world. Yet here in America, the birthplace of commercial nuclear energy, the promise and production of this technology has been brought to a near halt. Why?

Our technology has been very good. Yes, we have made mistakes; and we have learned from those mistakes without injury to the general public. I believe that the stalemate in nuclear energy is the result of poor communication between the scientists and engineers and the community at large. We scientists are, for the most part, poorly skilled in talking in a language the public can understand, and understand poorly the importance of doing so. This has resulted in the proliferation of unfounded fears among the general public and policy makers. The tragic result is that our nation is perilously close to losing a technology that may be our only bridge into a future that can sustain life in harmony with environmental concerns.

It is within this context that I am pleased that this book is being published. Dr. Alan E. Waltar is more than a competent scientist. He is an effective communicator. I believe he has been able to get to the core of the issues in nuclear energy that trouble most Americans. He presents an honest, authoritative, and yet delightfully readable, response to each of these genuine concerns. His holistic view provides a remarkably balanced perspective of how nuclear energy compares to other available energy supplies for the generation of electricity. This book conveys an important message, which will interest and inform every American truly concerned about the condition of our planet and our legacy to the next generation.