secret islands, forgotten N-rays, and isotopic murder - a journey into the wild world of nuclear science Mahaffey, James A. creator text bibliography nyu 2017 2017 First Pegasus Books edition. monographic eng

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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. James Mahaffey. 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 9781681774213 171212