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A proect that took a great deal of my time and energy during the
periodi975-79 was the work of the National Acxadefly of Science
on Nuclear & Alternative Energy Systems.
Committee
There were about a half-dozen
pmpma people on the Committee and this book is the Keports issued in 1980.
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The Committee on Nuclear and Alternative Energy Systems?
Kohn:
Yes.
It's a good book because the United States is running into, —7
the world, not just the U.S.,
is going to run into a shoratage of fuel
to produce electgri¢city. Obviously, nuclear substances are one of the
fuels to produce electricity.
But most people somehow or other feel that
we can find a substitute for them, that we don't have to use nuclear energy
to produce electricity, that we can get our energy from the sun, the wind, etc.
This Report lays a baseline for such discussion.
aspectsm of the discussion in this book.
I did the radiological
That a great interest of mine, and a
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very important one from a practical point of view, and in its way more important
than many of the the on-going topics in radiation biology.
More recently, I have written a review of The Nuclear Lion by John Jagger, ar
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going to give you a copy of it.
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Jagger's book is what you might call a continuation
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of what the Report says about radiation. Affe ” eview is really a very good summary of
Wy his book, so that if you read it you almost don't have to read his book.
Berge:
Kohn:
402 pages.
That's why I'm saying it.
I know the predicament you would be in if
you read everything that people threw at you; you'd never get through.
think my review very fairly Jaggerl.
But I
Now that point of view is not a popular one
in the united Statedtoday, but time will tell as to whether or not it is necessary
to adopt it.
This problem, as you can see, has been a major interest of mine.
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