Energy and human welfare: a critical analysis. Volume I. The social costs of power production

Statements are presented of the Board of Directors of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Committee on Environmental Alterations. Following the Preface by Barry Commoner, eighteen papers are presented: Thermal Pollution and Its Control by Christopher T. Hill; Biologic Effects of Air Pollution by Robert Frank; Acid Rain by Gene E. Likens, F. Herbert Bormann, and Noye M. Johnson; Environmental Consequences of Extracting Coal by Michael Fortune; Reclamation of Strip Mine Spoil Banks in Wyoming by Morton May, Robert Lang, Leandro Lujan, Peter Jacoby, and Wesley Thompson; Oil Spills by Max Blumer, Howard L. Sanders, J. Fred Grassle, and George R. Hampson; Nuclear Power: Its Promise and Its Problems by Milton Shaw; Radioactivity from Fossil-Fuel and Nuclear Power Plants by J. E. Martin, E. D. Harward, D. T. Oakley, J. M. Smith, and P. H. Bedrosion; A Reevaluation of Reactor Safety by Daniel F. Ford; Management of Radioactive Wastes from the Use of Nuclear Fuel by George Berg; Storage of High Level Radioactive Wastes by William W. Hambleton; Plutonium and Public Health by Donald P. Geesaman; Radiation: The Invisible Casualties by John W. Gofman and Arthur R. Tamplin; The Need for National and International Systems to Provide Physical Security for Fissionable Materials by Theodore B. Taylor; and Nuclear Electric Power by Sheldon Novick