Reddit reviews Power to Save the World: The Truth About Nuclear Energy

> towns, one in the USA and one in the USSR

There are hundreds of places where nuclear fuel is produced in the world, including the city of Toronto! So tell me all about the widespread environmental damage from all of these places.

The problem with such books that you read is that the authors more often than not have an agenda to push so they cherry pick cities where fuel was handled recklessly due to war / making weapons etc. Even simple chemicals handled recklessly kill a lot of people (see Bhopal Gas tragedy).

You cannot cherry pick two cities. You need to compare the number of nuclear fuel sites where "major environmental disaster" has happened and NOT due to weapons manufacturing, and compare that with disasters due to coal mines, natural gas sites (fracking), nickel mines (needed to make batteries) and tell me which forms of energy cost more human lives when handled correctly.



Edit: So the book you are reading is called "
Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters". So the book is going to tell you all about disasters. Of course your view will be biased! Try reading a book on the great success of nuclear power and how it is the cleanest and the safest source of fuel for mankind.

May I recommend https://www.amazon.com/Power-Save-World-Nuclear-Energy/dp/0307385876

The Power to Save the World by Gwenyth Cravens is a pretty good narrative one, if a bit polemical.

_Nuclear Energy is a good primer on the physics involved.

Fluid fueled reactors_ is a review of an alternative class of reactors.