Subjects:  1. Boiling water reactors    2. Engineering - Nuclear    3. Equipment and supplies    4. Machinery    5. Nuclear Energy    6. Power Resources    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Steam-turbines    9. Technology    10. Technology & Industrial Arts    11.  Asia    12.  Europe    13.  Russia    14. Technology / Nuclear Energy    15. United States   

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A Fascinating Book
Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age, by J.A. Wheeler is a fascinating book documenting the extraordinary life of an aspiring woman scientist whose life was filled with adversity. Surviving both World Wars and gender discrimination, Meitner was a pioneer at the forefront of her discipline involving the study of radio-elements and nuclear fission. At the University of Vienna and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Meitner was inspired to study experimental physics with a focus on atomic structure by her two most memorable professors Boltzmann and Planck. Meitner's major discovery was her work with Hahn and the splitting of the atom (nuclear fission). This monumental discovery led to the invention of the atomic bomb, which drastically changed warfare. Besides her accomplishments Meitner was a truly inspiring woman for her strength and personal conviction. Meitner barely escaped from Nazis Germany only to be isolated in Sweden from the international scientific community. She helplessly watched her lifetime of dedication and achievement be overlooked by the Nobel Prize Committee countless times, only to have Hahn receive all the credit. In the face of the immanent destruction of her career and life by the Nazis she experienced the pain of being abandoned by close colleagues. Rising above her obstacles she dedicated her life to helping victims of the Holocaust and refusing to work on chemical warfare or nuclear bomb research, but instead working towards awareness of the moral responsibilities scientists needed to have in this new nuclear age.

rewards in science
While there has been a recent renewed interest in the life of Lise Meitner, and a number of biographies have appeared, this I believe is the first one to focus on physics, as opposed to personalities. I may add that the authors do weave together an entangled web of scientists, their thoughts (through correspondence), their ambitions, and their (in many cases) flawed judgments. And the narrative is captivating!
Compelling, must read non-fiction
Patricia Rife has made a scientific subject meaningful in the comprehensible biography: "Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age."This is a well researched and an acknowledgement of a woman'scontribution to peace and medical technology.Lise Meitner devoted herlife to research and was denied many Nobel Peace Prize awards because ofher sex.This book is for every young woman, public library, high schoollibrary or anyone interested in an outstanding book of historic subjects. Special accolades to the author, Patricia Rife, for her professionaltreatment of this manuscript. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 1878-1968    2. Austria    3. Biography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. History    7. Meitner, Lise,    8. Nuclear Physics    9. Nuclear physicists    10. Physics    11. Science    12. Scientists - General    13. Theoretical Physics    14. Biography: general    15. Meitner, Lise    16. Nuclear power & engineering    17. Quantum physics (quantum mechanics)    18. Science / Physics   

Subjects:  1. Atomic & molecular physics    2. Nuclear power & engineering   

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A view into the founding of Nuclear Safety Culture
I have recently been doing some research on ethnographics, trying to better understand how the operating culture of nuclear power plants evolved. I was directed toward biographies of Admiral H.G. Rickover, and I found Duncan's work to be one of the most enjoyable readings on Rickover. Duncan gives an inside view to the Admiral and the history that led to the success of the Nuclear Navy through a historical account. The author's relationship with the Admiral, which was probably closer than many other biographers, shows Rickover a hard-driven centrist leader who stressed technical competence and sought excellence and integrity, as well as a respect and dedication for the high-risk technology. My only criticism would be that other biographies of Rickover dealve more into the Admiral's idiosincracies and somewhat odd expectations -- traits that leave the reader wondering if Rickover was crazy or a genius. I look forward to reading Duncan's new book "Rickover: A Struggle for Excellence" when it is released November 2001. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Admirals    2. Biography    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. History    5. History - Military / War    6. Military - General    7. Military Science    8. Naval History - Post 1945    9. Nuclear submarines    10. Rickover, Hyman George    11. United States    12. Naval forces & warfare    13. Nuclear power & engineering    14. Ship design & naval architecture    15. USA   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - General    2. Science / Nuclear Physics    3. Technology & Industrial Arts    4. Technology / Engineering / Nuclear    5. Engineering - Nuclear    6. History    7. Idaho    8. Idaho Falls (Idaho)    9. Idaho National Engineering Laboratory Region    10. Nuclear Physics    11. Nuclear energy    12. Travel - United States    13. United States - Mountain - Idaho   

Subjects:  1. Energy    2. General    3. Nuclear Energy    4. Power Resources    5. Renewable energy sources    6. Science    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology    10. Popular science    11. Science / Energy   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Nuclear    2. Fluid dynamics    3. Heat    4. Nuclear power plants    5. Nuclear reactors    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Technology & Industrial Arts    8. Transmission    9. Nuclear power & engineering    10. Technology / Engineering / Nuclear   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Nuclear    2. Science/Mathematics    3. Technology    4. Nuclear power & engineering   

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"The Firecracker Boys" never quit!
With John Bolton as our renegade permanent representative to the UN, working for the US nuclear weapons industry by trying to stop the UN program of nonproliferation, "The Firecracker Boys" so brilliantly described in Dan O'Neill's book continue even today with their diabolical efforts. Not to mention NASA's plan to send nuclear powered rockets into space.

Essential, scary reading
About a fascinating chapter in American history, and how the democratic process prevailed--barely--over the certain vested interests in the military-industrial complex.Makes Dwight Eisenhower look like a prophet--and also details some of the career of Edward Tellar, rightly celebrated as the father of the American H-bomb but then subsequently responsible for much bad science, including Ronald Reagan's Star Wars.This book is very well researched and documented.One moral to draw: citizens must be involved with public policy.The former Soviet Union, undertaking a similar project, turned areas of Siberia so radioactive that it will not be safe to dwell there for 10,000 or more years.We almost did the same in Alaska--but thankfully did not.Read this book to (1) understand how this disaster was averted, and what we can do to continue to safeguard our democratic processes; and (2) for great--true--story.

Creepy
I cannot help but notcice how the reviewers which seem to have been deeply disgusted by this book prefer to remain anonymous.Even if their opinion is that nuclear testing should continue, it disturbs me that these reviewers were not taken aback by the colossal mountain of half-truths, misrepresentations, and downright lies that the AEC (Atomic Energy Comission) used to lobby this project to Alaskans.Read more

Subjects:  1. Alaska    2. Antinuclear movement    3. Atomic bomb    4. General    5. History - General History    6. History: American    7. Industrial applications    8. Nuclear Energy    9. Project Chariot    10. Safety    11. Testing    12. Thompson, Cape (North Slope Bo    13. Thompson, Cape (North Slope Borough)    14. United States    15. History / Military / Nuclear Warfare    16. Teller, Edward   

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Oil, Gas, Coal, Wind, Waves, Solar, Nuclear, Geothermal....
Comprehensive but very readable review of World Energy Resources both old (Oil, Gas, Coal) and new (Wind, Solar, Nuclear). Oil, Gas, Coal, Wind, Waves, Solar, Nuclear, Geothermal....
Energy Studies (W. Shepherd and D.W. Shepherd) is aRead more

Subjects:  1. Energy    2. Nuclear Energy    3. Power Resources    4. Power reasorces    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Technology    7. Technology & Industrial Arts    8. Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Mechanical    2. Heat Transfer    3. Nuclear Reactors    4. Power Resources    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Technology    7. Technology & Industrial Arts    8. Engineering thermodynamics    9. Engines & power transmission    10. Heat transfer processes    11. Nuclear power & engineering    12. Technology / Engineering / Mechanical   

Subjects:  1. Nuclear Energy    2. Nuclear Physics    3. Nuclear reactions    4. Particle Physics    5. Physics    6. Protons    7. Scattering    8. Scattering (Physics)    9. Science    10. Science/Mathematics    11. Technology & Industrial Arts    12. Particle & high-energy physics    13. Science / Physics   

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Some Good Points!
Senator Domenici believes that most opposition to nuclear power plants is emotional and uninformed. For example, nuclear power plants in U.S. submarines dock regularly around the world without objection (except one port in New Zealand), France generates about 80% of its electric power from nuclear plants and reprocesses the fuel to reduce the amount of waste by a factor of four, and transporting an equivalent amount of fuel to a coal-fired plant involves 14,000 times more motive power.
problems with a brighter tomorrow (nuclear energy)
I like Pete.He's good for NM; but, don't read this book if you want "the whole truth" about nuclear power costs/benefits in our future.Do read it if you want to understand Pete, U.S. Legislative "dealing" andbad science represented as good science.
But why Subsidies
A Brighter Tomorrow, Fulfilling the Promise of Nuclear Energy
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Subjects:  1. Nuclear Energy    2. Nuclear engineering    3. Nuclear power plants    4. Political Science    5. Politics / Current Events    6. Politics/International Relations    7. Popular works    8. Public Affairs & Administration    9. Public Policy - General    10. Nuclear issues    11. Nuclear power & engineering    12. Political Science / Public Affairs & Administration    13. Social Science / Research   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Nuclear    2. Magnetism    3. Nuclear Fusion    4. Nuclear Physics    5. Physics    6. Plasma (Ionized gases)    7. Plasma Physics    8. Plasma confinement devices    9. Science    10. Science/Mathematics    11. Stellarators    12. Technology & Industrial Arts    13. Applied physics & special topics    14. Physics | Plasma Physics    15. Science / Physics   

Subjects:  1. Nuclear Energy    2. Science/Mathematics    3. Technology   

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Radiation
This book was most useful to me in calculating dose, it has a good breadth of the subject matter and will purchase my own copy...currently using advisor's copy. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Ionizing radiation    2. Physics    3. Radiation    4. Radioactivity    5. Radiological Safety    6. Safety measures    7. Science    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Solid State Physics    10. Atomic & molecular physics    11. Nuclear power & engineering    12. Occupational / industrial health & safety    13. Science / Physics   

Subjects:  1. Nuclear Energy    2. Nuclear Physics    3. Science    4. Science/Mathematics    5. Particle & high-energy physics    6. Particles (Nuclear physics)--Mathematical models    7. Science / Nuclear Physics   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Industrial    2. Engineering - Nuclear    3. Industrial Health & Safety    4. Reference    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Technology    7. Technology & Industrial Arts    8. Ergonomics    9. Nuclear issues    10. Nuclear power industries    11. Occupational / industrial health & safety    12. Technology / Industrial Health & Safety   

Subjects:  1. Nuclear Energy    2. Physics    3. Scattering (Physics)    4. Science    5. Science/Mathematics    6. Technology & Industrial Arts    7. Mathematics    8. Science / Physics   

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Good introduction to nuclear energy
This introduction to nuclear physics is very clear and covers all the essential elements.
A student's perspective
This was used as the textbook for my introduction to nuclear engineering class. While the information as present and relevant, it is presented in a meandering way that doesn't tell you what's important. The problems presented at the end of each chapter expect you to remember numbers and formulas that may have only been mentioned in passing 7 chapters ago. Further, each step of the problems has been rounded, making the final answer very different from that gained by simply doing the entire equation all at once. This may have been understandable when the first edition was written, but we have progressed significantly beyond the slide-rule, and the new generation of nuclear engineers is operating with much more sophisticated technology. The available instructor's answer guide to the problems does not even give the location of equations and numbers, nor is there a comprehensive appendix with all forumlas and numbers.

I thought it was wonderful
it was incredable it was pack full of information it was great for my project I recamend it to anyone ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Chemical & Biochemical    2. Engineering - Nuclear    3. Nuclear Energy    4. Nuclear Energy Utilization (Engineering Aspects)    5. Nuclear engineering    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Technology    8. Technology & Industrial Arts    9. Nuclear power & engineering    10. Technology / Engineering / Chemical & Biochemical