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008    161005s2017    nyuaf    b    001 0 eng d 
019    959808807|a985007931 
020    1681774216|q(hardcover) 
020    9781681774213|q(hardcover) 
035    (OCoLC)959875770|z(OCoLC)959808807|z(OCoLC)985007931 
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050  4 TK9145|b.M329 2017 
082 04 333.7924|223 
092    539.0000 
100 1  Mahaffey, James A.,|eauthor. 
245 10 Atomic adventures :|bsecret islands, forgotten N-rays, and
       isotopic murder--a journey into the wild world of nuclear 
       science /|cJames Mahaffey. 
250    First Pegasus Books edition. 
264  1 New York :|bPegasus Books,|c2017. 
300    xxxiii, 363 pages, [24] unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations (some color) ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [335]-345) and 
       an index. 
505 0  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. 
520    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. --|cfrom dust jacket. 
650  0 Nuclear energy|xGovernment policy|xHistory. 
650  0 Nuclear facilities|xHistory. 
650  0 Nuclear engineering|xHistory. 
650  7 Nuclear energy.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01039951 
650  7 Nuclear engineering.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01040032 
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914    FARM246183 
994    92|bCKE