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050 4 $aTK9145$b.M329 2017
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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.
264 4 $c℗♭2017
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 $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.
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