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Atomic Awakening
A hundred years of nuclear history told as one argument: that the atom went from fantasy to solved puzzle in five wartime years, and has spent sixty years since as a paradox — the safest industrial process on Earth, and the one nobody will build. Mahaffey is a reactor engineer, and he was in the…
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Atomic Accidents
A hunting dog, a radon-filled Ozark cave, and 130 years of everything that can go wrong with the atom. Mahaffey — a reactor engineer writing about his own field — arranges the accidents not by date but by kind: dropped bricks, burning graphite, liquid sodium, bombs falling out of airplanes, and finally Three Mile Island,…
An Official Ferrand Repository
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