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I begin this review with a confession of bias. I am a fan of the author, long devoted to his irreverent newsletter, Access to Energy. This monthly survey of energy and environmental issues routinely deflates the pretensions of our twentieth century Luddites while providing as much by way of solid information as one is likely to encounter outside the confines of the Statistical Abstract.

When Petr Beckmann set his hand to writing a book about nuclear energy, therefore, I expected a treat, and The Health Hazards of Not Going Nuclear (Golem Press, $5.95) does not disappoint. Beckmann, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Colorado, has written a vivid technical primer cum political polemic concerning the safety, cost, and practicability of the peaceful atom. It is at once a useful handbook on nuclear basics and a biting refutation of the Naderites, Sierra-Clubbers, and other technophobes among us.

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I begin this review with a confession of bias. I am a fan of the author, long devoted to his irreverent newsletter, Access to Energy. This monthly survey of energy and environmental issues routinely deflates the pretensions of our twentieth century Luddites while providing as much by way of solid information as one is likely to encounter outside the confines of the Statistical Abstract.

When Petr Beckmann set his hand to writing a book about nuclear energy, therefore, I expected a treat, and The Health Hazards of Not Going Nuclear (Golem Press, $5.95) does not disappoint. Beckmann, a professor of electrical engineering at the University of Colorado, has written a vivid technical primer cum political polemic concerning the safety, cost, and practicability of the peaceful atom. It is at once a useful handbook on nuclear basics and a biting refutation of the Naderites, Sierra-Clubbers, and other technophobes among us.