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Atomic adventures : secret islands, forgotten N-rays, and isotopic murder--a journey into the wild world of nuclear science / James Mahaffey.
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Mahaffey, James A.
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English
Εdition
First Pegasus books edition.
Published/Created
New York : Pegasus Books, 2017.
©2017
Description
xxxiii, 363 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
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Engineering Library - Stacks
TK9145 .M31 2017
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Nuclear energy
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Summary note
"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."-- Jacket flap.
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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.
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ISBN
9781681774213 ((hardcover))
1681774216 ((hardcover))
9781681777856
1681777851
LCCN
2017449221
OCLC
959875770
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