Jun 21, 2021
In 1987, the Edison Electric Institute, trade group for investor-owned electric utilities in the USA, published “A Basic Guide to Nuclear Power”, partly (as appears from the text) in response to public interest stimulated by the Chernobyl accident.
The full booklet can be seen here. It’s pretty good overall, but there’s one real howler that somehow made it through the whole editorial process. On page 14, a map is provided to illustrate world uranium reserves ― and the units, which should be “thousands of tonnes”, are given as “tonnes”!