An authoritative and unbiased guide to nuclear technology and the controversies that surround it.Are you for nuclear power or against it? What's the basis of your opinion? Did you know a CT scan gives you some 2 millisieverts of radiation? Do you know how much a millisievert is? Does irradiation make foods safer or less safe? What is the point of a bilateral Russia-US nuclear weapons treaty in a multipolar world? These are nuclear questions that call for nuclear choices, and this book equips citizens to make these choices informed ones. It explains, clearly and accessibly, the basics of nuclear technology and describes the controversies surrounding its use.Richard Wolfsonis Benjamin F. Wissler Professor of Physics at Middlebury College, where he also teaches in the Environmental Studies Program and at the Middlebury Institute in Monterey. He did undergraduate work in physics and philosophy at MIT and Swarthmore.  He holds a master’s in environmental studies from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in physics from Dartmouth.  Wolfson’s research involves the Sun, climate change, and solar energy.  Other published work encompasses medical physics, plasma physics, electronics, nuclear issues, and astrophysics. His booksNuclear Choices: A Citizen’s Guide to Nuclear TechnologyandSimply Einstein: Relativity Demystifiedexemplify Wolfson’s interest in making science accessible to nonscientists.  Textbooks includeEssential University PhysicsandEnergy, Environment, and Climate.Wolfson has published inScientific Americanand wrote forWorld Book Encyclopedia.His video courses for The Teaching Company’s Great Courses series includeEinstein’s Relativity and the Quantum Revolution, Physics in Your Life, Earth’s Changing Climate, Physics and Our Universe,andUnderstanding Modern Electronics.He has lectured in the One-Day University and for Scientific American Travel.  Wolfson has spent sabbaticals at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, St. Andrews University, and Stanford University.  He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.Dr. Ferenc Dalnoki-Veressis a scientist-in-residence and adjunct professor. Previously he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, Germany, the Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso in Italy, as well as at Princeton University’s Physics Department, specializing on rare signal detection, primarily neutrino detection. He was a member of the SNO Collaboration that won the 2015 Nobel Prize in physics. He is also a laureate along with his team of the 2016 Breakthrough Prize in Physics.After a rewarding career as an experimental physicist he switched fields to physics in the public service. He became a professional specialist at the Princeton Program on Science and Global Security, working on particle simulations for checking the declared HEU inventories of naval-reactor cores. At the Institute, he focuses on the proliferation of fissile materials, nuclear spent fuel management, emerging technologies and verification of nuclear weapons. He also teaches a course on Nuclear Treaty Verification using avatar-based virtual reality to simulate the protocol for the verification of nuclear weapons and is the coordinator of a dedicated course on the science and technology of nonproliferation and terrorism studies. He has contributed to more than 40 articles in refereed and non-refereed journals.