01659cam a22002657i 4500 36049 36049 171212t20172017nyuaf b 001 0 eng d 9781681774213 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. 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. BK TK9145 .M315 2017 0 0 lcc 0 0 NFIC MAIN MAIN PASFL 2022-10-25 PHC 0 TK 9145 .M315 2017 0046093 2022-10-25 00:00:00 1 2022-10-25 BK