01611cam a22002417i 4500008004100000020001800041100002400059245014900083250003300232300008500265520065100350650004801001650003301049650003401082650004801116650003801164650002301202650003301225650003901258650002501297650002401322050002301346171212t20172017nyuaf    b    001 0 eng d  a97816817742131 aMahaffey, James A.,10aAtomic adventures :bsecret islands, forgotten N-rays, and isotopic murder - a journey into the wild world of nuclear science /cJames Mahaffey.  aFirst Pegasus Books edition.  axxxiii, 363 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :billustrations (some color) ;  aMahaffey 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. 0aNuclear energyxGovernment policyxHistory. 0aNuclear facilitiesxHistory. 0aNuclear engineeringxHistory. 4aNuclear energyxGovernment policyxHistory. 7aSCIENCE / Experiments & Projects. 7aSCIENCE / History. 7aSCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear. 7aNuclear energyxGovernment policy. 7aNuclear engineering. 7aNuclear facilities.00aTK9145b.M315 2017