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World Nuclear Information Library a well-organized authoritative collection of information on nuclear power.
Our World in Data has a section on Energy and Environment with nice interactive graphics.

Derek Abbott, Is Nuclear Power Globally Scalable? Proceedings of the IEEE, October 2011, pp.1611-17. A paper frequently quoted by anti-nuclear advocates, alleging fifteen "fundamental engineering and resource scaling limits that make the notion of a nuclear utopia somewhat impractical".
Mark Z. Jacobson (2020). 100% Clean, Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 1108790836.
- Christopher Clack's critique of Jacobson's 100% Renewables Proposal Proc. National Academy of Sciences 2017 114 (26) 6722-6727.
- Roadmap to Nowhere Mike Conley’s website critique of Jacobson’s Roadmap
Edwin Lyman, Union of Concerned Scientists, March 2021, Advanced Isn’t Always Better "Assessing the Safety, Security, and Environmental Impacts of Non-Light-Water Nuclear Reactors".
- Critique of Lyman’s UCS paper
L.M. Krall, et.al., Nuclear waste from small modular reactors Proc. National Academy of Sciences, vol.119, No.23, 31 May 2022.
- Dan Yurman's critique of Stanford's Questionable Study on Spent Nuclear Fuel for SMRs 31 May 2022.
Charles McCombie, et.al., SMRs: a big game changer? Nuclear Engineering International, April 2022, pp.19-23. - A discussion of the political barriers to acceptance of the new reactors.

Nuclear Power Debate Firing Line 2021 - the best arguments from both sides.
Pandora's Promise 2013 documentary examines some of the widespread beliefs about the dangers of nuclear energy.
Why renewables can’t save the planet | Michael Shellenberger | TEDxDanubia 2019. An environmental activist who now supports nuclear power.
Chernobyl - HBO Miniseries 2019 Emmy and Golden Globe winning miniseries, grossly exaggerates radiation dangers. See the review in Forbes by James Conca, environmental scientist. How HBO Got It Wrong On Chernobyl
Collection of videos on nuclear power by Gordon McDowell, Canadian videographer.

Kryuchkov et.al. (2011) 'Isotopic Uranium and Plutonium Denaturing as an Effective Method for Nuclear Fuel Proliferation Protection in Open and Closed Fuel Cycles' https://www.doi.org/10.5772/17822 How nuclear fuel can be made useless for bombs by denaturing (diluting fissile isotopes with hard-to-separate non-fissile, e.g. diluting U-235 with U-238) and by adding a radiation barrier (isotopes that will make stolen fuel easy to detect, hard to handle, and make a bomb fizzle, not detonate).

Advanced Reactors Information System IAEA Database on Advanced Nuclear Power Reactors
Advance Nuclear Directory Developers, Suppliers, and National Laboratories
ThorCon Isle details of a complete power plant.
FC-MSR Molten salt fast reactor.
Natrium Sodium cooled fast reactor.

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 **[http://www.roadmaptonowhere.com Roadmap to Nowhere] Mike Conley’s website critique of Jacobson’s Roadmap
 *Edwin Lyman, Union of Concerned Scientists, March 2021, [https://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/2021-05/ucs-rpt-AR-3.21-web_Mayrev.pdf Advanced Isn’t Always Better] "Assessing the Safety, Security, and Environmental Impacts of Non-Light-Water Nuclear Reactors".
+**[https://ses1sez.substack.com/p/advanced-nuclear-reactors?s=r Critique of Lyman’s UCS paper]
 *L.M. Krall, et.al., [https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2111833119 Nuclear waste from small modular reactors] Proc. National Academy of Sciences, vol.119, No.23, 31 May 2022.
 **Dan Yurman's critique of [https://neutronbytes.com/2022/05/31/stanfords-questionable-study-on-spent-nuclear-fuel-for-smrs/ Stanford's Questionable Study on Spent Nuclear Fuel for SMRs] 31 May 2022.