Nuclear reading

Following some online pointers in a previous post, here are three good books to get wet in one of the many technological sujet du jour. I have yet to find adequate equivalent in Japanese, let alone French.

Nuclear Energy in the 21st Century, totally pronuclear and sounding at times weird in the perspective of what happened lately, but offers a 101 coverage of the subject at large. The Reporter's Handbook on Nuclear Material, Energy, and Waste Management is an exceptional book geared at reporters but you don't need credentials to read it. For a hard, engineering perspective and thorough stuff into dismantling things apart, the UK published Nuclear Decommissioning, Waste Management and Environmental Site Remediation is it. Diagonal and selective reading with situational forecasting on priorities are mandatory. There is no time to turn into a nuclear engineer.