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Atomic adventures : secret islands, forgotten N-rays, and isotopic murder--a journey into the wild world of nuclear science

Mahaffey, James A., author

2017

Overview

Mahaffey unearths lost reactors on far-flung islands and finds trees that were exposed to active fission -- which then changed gender or bloomed in the dead of winter. He explains why we have nuclear submarines but not nuclear aircraft and why cold fusion does not -- and cannot -- exist. And who knew that radiation-counting was once a fashionable trend? Though parts of our nuclear history might seem like fiction -- such as when cowboys got their hands on a reactor -- Mahaffey's prose holds the reader in thrall of the energy of scientific curiosity and ingenuity that may hold the key to solving our energy crisis -- or even send us to Mars.

• Publisher: Pegasus Books
• Subject: Nuclear energy Government policy History. / Nuclear facilities History. / Nuclear engineering History. / SCIENCE Experiments & Projects. / SCIENCE History. / SCIENCE Physics Nuclear.
• ISBN: 9781681774213, 1681774216, 9781681777856, 1681777851

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
TK9145.M329 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE