TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mahaffey,James A.
TI  - Atomic adventures: secret islands, forgotten N-rays, and isotopic murder - a journey into the wild world of nuclear science 
SN  - 9781681774213
AV  - TK9145 .M315 2017
KW  - Nuclear energy
KW  - Government policy
KW  - History
KW  - Nuclear facilities
KW  - Nuclear engineering
KW  - SCIENCE / Experiments & Projects
KW  - SCIENCE / History
KW  - SCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear
N2  - 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
ER  -