Atomic adventures :
Mahaffey, James A.,
Atomic adventures : secret islands, forgotten N-rays, and isotopic murder - a journey into the wild world of nuclear science / James Mahaffey. - First Pegasus Books edition. - xxxiii, 363 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ;
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.
9781681774213
Nuclear energy--Government policy--History.
Nuclear facilities--History.
Nuclear engineering--History.
Nuclear energy--Government policy--History.
SCIENCE / Experiments & Projects.
SCIENCE / History.
SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear.
Nuclear energy--Government policy.
Nuclear engineering.
Nuclear facilities.
TK9145 / .M315 2017
Atomic adventures : secret islands, forgotten N-rays, and isotopic murder - a journey into the wild world of nuclear science / James Mahaffey. - First Pegasus Books edition. - xxxiii, 363 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ;
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.
9781681774213
Nuclear energy--Government policy--History.
Nuclear facilities--History.
Nuclear engineering--History.
Nuclear energy--Government policy--History.
SCIENCE / Experiments & Projects.
SCIENCE / History.
SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear.
Nuclear energy--Government policy.
Nuclear engineering.
Nuclear facilities.
TK9145 / .M315 2017