| Edition |
First Pegasus Books edition. |
| Description |
xxxiii, 363 pages, [24] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-345) and an index. |
| Contents |
Author's note: stories told at night around the glow of the reactor -- Introduction: The curious case of the n-rays, a dead end for all times -- Cry for me, Argentina -- AFP-67 in the Dawson Forest -- Inside cold fusion -- Good news and bad news -- The lost expedition to Mars -- The chic-4 revolution -- Japan's atomic bomb project -- The criminal use of nuclear disintegration -- The threat of the dirty bomb -- A bridge to the stars -- Conclusions. |
| Summary |
With enthusiasm and witty intelligence, 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 vivid prose holds the reader in thrall of the infectious energy of scientific curiosity and ingenuity that may hold the key to solving our energy crisis--or even send us to Mars. -- from dust jacket. |
| Subject |
Nuclear energy -- Government policy -- History.
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Nuclear facilities -- History.
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Nuclear engineering -- History.
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Nuclear energy. (OCoLC)fst01039951
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Nuclear engineering. (OCoLC)fst01040032
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| ISBN |
1681774216 (hardcover) |
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9781681774213 (hardcover) |
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