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050 4 $aTK9145$b.M329 2017
082 04 $a333.7924$223
100 1 $aMahaffey, James A.,$eauthor.
245 10 $aAtomic adventures :$bsecret islands, forgotten N-rays, and isotopic murder--a journey into the wild world of nuclear science /$cJames Mahaffey.
250 $aFirst Pegasus Books edition.
264 1 $aNew York :$bPegasus Books,$c2017.
300 $axxxiii, 363 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations (some color) ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 335-345) and an index.
505 0 $aAuthor's note: stories told at night around the glow of the reactor -- Introduction: The curious case of the n-rays, a dead end for all times -- Cry for me, Argentina -- AFP-67 in the Dawson Forest -- Inside cold fusion -- Good news and bad news -- The lost expedition to Mars -- The chic-4 revolution -- Japan's atomic bomb project -- The criminal use of nuclear disintegration -- The threat of the dirty bomb -- A bridge to the stars -- Conclusions.
520 $aWith enthusiasm and witty intelligence, Mahaffey unearths lost reactors on far-flung islands and finds trees that were exposed to active fission--which then changed gender or bloomed in the dead of winter. He explains why we have nuclear submarines but not nuclear aircraft and why cold fusion does not--and cannot--exist. And who knew that radiation-counting was once a fashionable trend? Though parts of our nuclear history might seem like fiction--such as when cowboys got their hands on a reactor--Mahaffey's vivid prose holds the reader in thrall of the infectious energy of scientific curiosity and ingenuity that may hold the key to solving our energy crisis--or even send us to Mars. --$cfrom dust jacket.
650 0 $aNuclear energy$xGovernment policy$xHistory.
650 0 $aNuclear facilities$xHistory.
650 0 $aNuclear engineering$xHistory.
650 7 $aNuclear energy.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01039951
650 7 $aNuclear engineering.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01040032
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