{"id":9839,"date":"2020-05-24T07:22:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T07:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xatakaciencia.com\/libros-que-nos-inspiran\/libros-que-nos-inspiran-energia-nuclear-alfredo-garcia"},"modified":"2020-05-24T07:22:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-24T07:22:04","slug":"libros-que-nos-inspiran-la-energa-nuclear-salvar-el-mundo-de-alfredo-garca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forocilac.org\/en\/libros-que-nos-inspiran-la-energa-nuclear-salvar-el-mundo-de-alfredo-garca\/","title":{"rendered":"Books that inspire us: 'Nuclear energy will save the world' by Alfredo Garc\u00eda"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Can we spread information about nuclear energy by referring to films like Austin Powers<\/em> either Return to the future<\/em> or series like The Simpson<\/em>? If possible. Can we disseminate information about nuclear energy while defending it from an environmentalist position?<\/strong> It also can. Can nuclear energy be disseminated with passion, dedication, enthusiasm and a good seasoning in the form of nice explanatory drawings? <\/p>\n


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Nuclear energy will save the world<\/em>, written by Alfredo Garcia<\/strong> (the mythical already @NuclearOperator<\/a> of Twitter) shows that all this is possible. And that, despite having such a daring title, even uncomfortable for some Greenpeace acolyte or apologist, it is also possible to put the pros and cons in front of the reader so that they can form their own opinion. <\/p>\n

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Because when it comes to nuclear energy, as in many other issues, information must prevail over indoctrination, fear and Manichean messages, those that fit comfortably on a claim sheet.<\/p>\n

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A necessary book<\/h2>\n

Let's say it from the beginning: many of us were waiting for this book. Those of us who have been closely following Alfredo's work on Twitter for a few years now knew that all those inventive and viral threads that were capable of pouring tons of pedagogy without being pedantic or making the abstruse accessible without sacrificing rigor should be collected in a book . <\/p>\n

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Some bold threads, full of data that make your head explode<\/strong> (like eating a banana produces a higher radioactive dose than living for a year next to a nuclear power plant)... and on top of that, elegantly snorting over trolls<\/em> and haters<\/em>, in the purest style of the quixotic \u201cthey bark, then we ride.\u201d<\/p>\n

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You cannot be an environmentalist if you do not support nuclear energy but there are few politicians who send that message<\/a>\n <\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

And it has happened, the book has materialized. With the addition that the volume includes what many of us had already read in his tweets plus many other things that we did not know: a first part<\/strong> science and technology where information on the operation of nuclear energy is offered; a second part<\/strong> addressing accidents (Fukushima did not cause deaths due to radioactivity, for example, but these were the result of fear itself, collective hysteria); a third part<\/strong> which focuses on what we do with waste and how dangerous it is; a fourth part<\/strong> on the most notorious controversies (with Greenpeace showing its snout); a fifth part<\/strong> about the prospects; and one fifth part<\/strong> about the solutions. <\/p>\n

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We are, therefore, before the super-vitaminized version of what Alfredo had already told us, without ignoring the now classic illustrations of his son \u00c1lvaro, and, as icing on the cake, a brand new prologue by the particle physicist Javier Santaolalla<\/strong>. <\/p>\n

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As an example of what you can find throughout the text, we have read a fragment of the book in which a nice reference is made to a story by Isaac Asimov<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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