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100	1		_aMahaffey, James A.,
245	1	0	_aAtomic adventures : _bsecret islands, forgotten N-rays, and isotopic murder - a journey into the wild world of nuclear science / _cJames Mahaffey.
250			_aFirst Pegasus Books edition.
300			_axxxiii, 363 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations (some color) ;
520			_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.
650		0	_aNuclear energy _xGovernment policy _xHistory.
650		0	_aNuclear facilities _xHistory.
650		0	_aNuclear engineering _xHistory.
650		4	_aNuclear energy _xGovernment policy _xHistory.
650		7	_aSCIENCE / Experiments & Projects.
650		7	_aSCIENCE / History.
650		7	_aSCIENCE / Physics / Nuclear.
650		7	_aNuclear energy _xGovernment policy.
650		7	_aNuclear engineering.
650		7	_aNuclear facilities.
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050	0	0	_aTK9145 _b.M315 2017