Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and InvestigationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Department of Energy's Hanford Spent Nuclear Fuel Project
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and InvestigationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
Author: Steve OlsonPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393634981
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 331
Book Description
A thrilling narrative of scientific triumph, decades of secrecy, and the unimaginable destruction wrought by the creation of the atomic bomb. It began with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured in quantity by humans. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled brilliant minds and seemingly inexhaustible bodies to find a way to create a nuclear chain reaction of inconceivable explosive power. In a matter of months, the Hanford nuclear facility was built to produce and weaponize the enigmatic and deadly new material that would fuel atomic bombs. In the desert of eastern Washington State, far from prying eyes, scientists Glenn Seaborg, Enrico Fermi, and many thousands of others—the physicists, engineers, laborers, and support staff at the facility—manufactured plutonium for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, and for the bombs in the current American nuclear arsenal, enabling the construction of weapons with the potential to end human civilization. With his characteristic blend of scientific clarity and storytelling, Steve Olson asks why Hanford has been largely overlooked in histories of the Manhattan Project and the Cold War. Olson, who grew up just twenty miles from Hanford’s B Reactor, recounts how a small Washington town played host to some of the most influential scientists and engineers in American history as they sought to create the substance at the core of the most destructive weapons ever created. The Apocalypse Factory offers a new generation this dramatic story of human achievement and, ultimately, of lethal hubris.
Plutopia
Author: Kathryn L. BrownPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199855765
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
In Plutopia, Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the stories of Richland, Washington and Ozersk, Russia-the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium. To contain secrets, American and Soviet leaders created plutopias--communities of nuclear families living in highly-subsidized, limited-access atomic cities. Brown shows that the plants' segregation of permanent and temporary workers and of nuclear and non-nuclear zones created a bubble of immunity, where dumps and accidents were glossed over and plant managers freely embezzled and polluted. In four decades, the Hanford plant near Richland and the Maiak plant near Ozersk each issued at least 200 million curies of radioactive isotopes into the surrounding environment--equaling four Chernobyls--laying waste to hundreds of square miles and contaminating rivers, fields, forests, and food supplies. Because of the decades of secrecy, downwind and downriver neighbors of the plutonium plants had difficulty proving what they suspected, that the rash of illnesses, cancers, and birth defects in their communities were caused by the plants' radioactive emissions. Plutopia was successful because in its zoned-off isolation it appeared to deliver the promises of the American dream and Soviet communism; in reality, it concealed disasters that remain highly unstable and threatening today. -- From publisher description.
Report on the Activity of the Committee on Commerce for the One Hundred Sixth Congress
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on CommercePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Why Nuclear Power Has Been a Flop
Author: Jack DevanneyPublisher: Bookbaby
ISBN: 9781098308964
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
This book is a collection of essays focused on the Gordian knot of our time, the closely coupled problems of energy poverty for billions of humans, and global warming for all humans. The central thesis of the book in that nuclear power is not only the only solution, it is a highly desirable solution, cheaper, safer, less intrusive on nature than all the alternatives.
Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 2001: Department of Energy
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water DevelopmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Energy development
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 2001
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water DevelopmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
Book Description
108-1 Hearings: Energy And Water Development Appropriations For 2004, Part 6, March 20, 2003, *
Author: Energy and Water Development Appropriations for 2003
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water DevelopmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
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