Word: factualism
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...book outlines the chain of events in an imaginary meltdown in April 1991 at the nuclear plant currently proposed for Montague, Massachusetts, a town in the Connecticut River Valley. The Hampshire authors investigate with impressive detail and strong factual arguments the possible scenario. Included are chapters on how the meltdown might occur (following several sections succinctly explaining the workings of a reactor), how radioactivity would be released, an estimate of both short-and long-term casualties, and an estimate of the effects of radioactivity on the environment, specifically food and water supplies...
...frightening information may be old hat to anti-nuke fans, but somehow the general public has lost sight of the facts, particularly in the long and losing battle against the Seabrook, N.H. plant. Meltdown at Montague proves valuable, then, simply because it is the least hysterical and most readable factual account of nuclear power today. While the book most definitely possesses an anti-nuke tone, the reader is hard-pressed to find dogma. The closing pages suggest that because nuclear power plants are here to stay, we must perfect emergency plans to minimize the damage of a possible meltdown...
...yarns of Civil War veterans in his Michigan home town. A World War I veteran who pursued a peacetime career as a newspaperman, he tried to write a Civil War novel when he was 50. "I got 200 pages down, and it was awful," he recalled. "But the factual parts, where the armies were moving, when the battles were fought, that wasn't bad," He skimmed off the fiction, and the result was Mr. Lincoln's Army, the first of his 13 elegiac, historical summaries that re-create the Civil War in a sweep of colorful detail. Catton...
...fight relied on questions of evidence -- questions over the pragmatic effect of Harvard's investments in South Africa. The moral issues, to be sure, attracted most of the protesting students to the movement, but once the battle lines were drawn, the students found themselves having to amass factual evidence in order to counter the Administration, which argued that it also found apartheid morally repugnant but believed that Harvard could best serve the interests of South African blacks by encouraging American companies there to introduce labor reforms...
...factual The Cloud Forest (1961) and the fictional At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1965), Matthiessen and his characters successfully, and at times beautifully, conveyed the dilemma of the Western mind: a need to worship wilderness and a desire to tame it in the name of progress and profit...