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Very Useful
"This book would be very useful for graduate students or postgraduate students entering a field of study related to the nucleus...could also serve as a fine textbook..." (Doody's Health Services)

Journal Review
"Cook's writing is clear, light and at times colloquial, but always exquisitely accurate[...]easy to read and[...]approachable[...]It is an essential book" -Tom Misteli, National Cancer Institute, NIH (in Journal of Cell Science) ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Cell cycle    2. Cell nuclei    3. Cytology    4. Engineering - Nuclear    5. Genetics    6. Life Sciences - Cytology    7. Life Sciences - Genetics & Genomics    8. Science    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Cellular biology    11. Molecular biology    12. Science / Cytology   

Subjects:  1. Electronics - Semiconductors    2. Science/Mathematics    3. Technology    4. Technology & Industrial Arts    5. Engineering & Technology | Electrical & Computer Engineering    6. Nuclear power & engineering    7. Semi-conductors & super-conductors    8. Technology / Electronics / Semiconductors   

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Memoir of a Technician at Los Alamos
McAllister Hull had a distinguished career as a nuclear physicist and university administrator but in the fall of 1944 he arrived at Los Alamos to work as an explosives technician.His story of how that happened gives a view of the Manhattan project different from the well told histories of the eminent scientists and military leaders.Hull knew who Oppenheimer and Groves were but his role was a niche producing critical chemical explosive components at the more isolated S-site.For that matter he knew Klaus Fuchs with out any idea of the Soviet connection.
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Subjects:  1. United States    2. Physics    3. Los Alamos    4. Science/Mathematics    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Physicists    7. Nuclear weapons    8. New Mexico    9. Nuclear Physics    10. Scientists - General    11. Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology    12. Nuclear power & engineering    13. USA    14. Biography    15. Science    16. Social aspects    17. Cold War    18. History   

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Dr. Huizenga Will Have To Write a New Book
Since Dr. Huizenga wrote this scathing book against Cold Fusion, so much has happened in the field.Even the U.S. Navy revealed in the Spring, 2003 that they have been clandestinely researching Cold Fusion for a decade.Their conclusion?Cold Fusion is real and it warrants an official government funded research effort.Dr. Huizenga, well meaning or not, missed the boat on Cold Fusion.It's too bad he put his closed-minded scientific views in writing for the whole world to see.I wonder if he'll be writing a new book when Cold Fusion re-emerges into the scientific mainstream in coming years?Cold Fusion is being replicated all around the world, and the skeptics are just flat-earthers at this point.
Cold Fusion
This is the greatest book describing the scientific fiasco of the century. It is a great book describing the theory and showing experiments to try and duplicate this process of cold fusion. Great Book. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Cold fusion    2. History    3. Nuclear Fusion    4. Nuclear Physics    5. Science    6. Science/Mathematics    7. Atomic & molecular physics    8. History of medicine    9. Nuclear power & engineering    10. Nuclear structure physics    11. Science / History    12. USA    13. c 1980 to c 1990   

Subjects:  1. Atomic And Nuclear Physics    2. Atomic spectroscopy    3. Cross sections (Nuclear physic    4. Cross sections (Nuclear physics)    5. Nuclear Energy    6. Nuclear Physics    7. Nuclear excitation    8. Physics    9. Science    10. Science/Mathematics    11. Spectral line broadening    12. Technology & Industrial Arts    13. Atomic & molecular physics    14. Science / Nuclear Physics    15. broadening of spectraal lines    16. cross sections    17. electron-atom collisions    18. excitation o atoms and ions    19. ionizatioon   

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Story Lost in the Details
I grew up in Richland and went to Hanford High School during the Reagan/Bush years.I found her book interesting, but it seemed to lack the details I was trying to learn more about, primarily the role of HEAL and other citizen action groups to promote more honesty about the dangers of plutonium production.Growing up around "the Area" I found not a lot of awareness about these issues and even found myself avoiding them for the last twenty years of my life!Her book brought back to me the mindset of the area that allows that kind of cloud.She gives only one or two sentences each for HEAL and the Downwinders, without whose work she would not have had the material for her book.None at all to the incredible journalism of Steele at the Spokesman Review and no mention of the whistle blower Casey Ruud.I found that lapse pretty typical of Hanfordization.I remember my Physics teacher telling our class that automobile engines were more dangerous than spent uranium fuel which could be used to power everything in the future.I guess he didn't really consider the use of dirty bombs, <sigh> . . . I found the book Atomic Harvest more informative.

Informative, interesting, and a good digest...
Dr. Gerber reduced the thousands of documents, memos, and misc data declassified reguarding the Hanford Area and the surrounding region from the very beginning of the Manhattan Project.Having lived there for a majority of my life in what was once the "Richland Village" and going to a high school with a mascot of the Bombers, this book was particularly interesting to me. It also allowed me to carry intelligent conversation with my grandfather (who worked there from the 50's till the 80's). Highly technical in parts but with some explaination, I reccommend you read a bit about radioactivity and geology to assist your understanding of the content. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Environmental aspects    2. General    3. Hanford Site    4. Hanford Site (Wash.)    5. Hazardous waste site remediation    6. History    7. History - Military / War    8. Military - Nuclear Warfare    9. Nature/Ecology    10. Nuclear Power Stations    11. Nuclear weapons plants    12. Radioactive Wastes    13. United States - General    14. United States - State & Local - Pacific Northwest    15. Washington (State)    16. Waste disposal    17. American history: Second World War    18. Nuclear issues    19. Nuclear power industries    20. Nuclear weapons    21. USA    22. Washington state   

Subjects:  1. Business / Economics / Finance    2. Investments & Securities - General    3. Nuclear Energy    4. Technology & Industrial Arts    5. Business & Economics / Investments & Securities    6. Finance & Accounting   

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The best overview of nuclear power yet written.
This is the rarest sort of book -one that is totally accessible to the beginner interested in learning more about nuclear power, but so filled with details and specifics that it is both enjoyable and informative for the reader that already knows quite a bit about the topic.The book is mainly valuable for addressing the politics surrounding the debate about nuclear power in America, and contrasting public perceptions with very well researched facts.This is the best single compendium of facts, figures, and political events surrounding nuclear power that I have seen.Replete with history to explain exactly how different aspects of the current technological and political situations came about.The book was later made into a PBS documentary, which is seldom rebroadcast -perhaps because the conclusions that Rhodes reaches through his research puts him at odds with many PBS regular viewers?An excellent book.Typical of Rhodes' thorough but readable style.

Not enough specific solutions
I have read Richard Rhodes other books "The Making of the Atomic Bomb and Dark Sun; both of them are excellent books and should be read by anyone who wants to understand the history of the 20th century.This book was good but I would have like to have known more of the new types of reactors they are making that are inherently safe.He did not even mention TRIGA which is used all over the world.Why can't that be made on a power plant scale. Read more

Subjects:  1. Energy Policy (Economic Aspects)    2. General    3. Nuclear Energy    4. Nuclear Power Resources Management    5. Nuclear industry    6. Politics - Current Events    7. Science/Mathematics    8. United States    9. Nuclear power & engineering   

Subjects:  1. Molecular Physics    2. Science    3. Science/Mathematics    4. Nuclear power & engineering    5. Science / Molecular Physics   

Subjects:  1. General    2. Government policy    3. Nuclear Energy    4. Nuclear Generation Of Electric Power    5. Nuclear Power Resources Management    6. Nuclear industry    7. Nuclear power plants    8. Nuclear weapons    9. Politics - Current Events    10. Politics / Current Events    11. Science/Mathematics    12. United States    13. Management of land & natural resources    14. Power generation & distribution   

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Great
This book contains a wealth of information well organized in one handy book.This is the place to start, if you want to learn about how energy is used and produced today. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Energy    2. Energy Technology (General)    3. Environmental Science    4. Nuclear Energy    5. Power (Mechanics)    6. Power Resources    7. Power Resources Management    8. Science    9. Science/Mathematics    10. Technology    11. Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology    12. Engineering & Technology    13. Management of land & natural resources    14. Nuclear issues    15. Science / Energy   

Editorial Review

On June 26, 1995 the people of Golf Manor, Michigan returned from work to find a federal EPA crew dismantling a potting shed in Patty Hahn's back yard. In subsequent days, the crew, wearing protective suits, carted away the refuse in sealed barrels emblazoned with radiation symbols. The EPA workers refused to disclose what was happening, only offering vague reassurance that everything was ok. Ken Silverstein shows that things in Golf Manor were not, in fact, ok. David Hahn, a 17-year-old aspiring Eagle Scout, had constructed the rudiments of a nuclear breeder reactor in his backyard and had contaminated himself and the immediate area with potentially deadly radioactive material. In his brief, briskly-paced account of the events, Silverstein weaves together science, history, and testimony from David and his family in a tale both frightening and tragic.Read more

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Fascinating book, somewhat scientifically inaccurate
Overall, this was a very interesting book that was had to put down. It could have benefited if it was edited by someone with a scientific background, however.
fascinating....what a teen will do with an interest
David Hahn, the teen mentioned, became fascinated by nuclear energy.He took his home research to the point that his research created a nuclear waste site in his own backyard...literally.
I loved it!
I loved this book.I l.o.v.e.d. this book. It is the story of a bored, repressed, neglected, secretive, obsessive teenager with enough chemistry and physics knowledge to build a breeder reactor in his backyard garden shed.
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Subjects:  1. 1976-    2. Biography    3. Biography & Autobiography    4. Biography / Autobiography    5. Biography/Autobiography    6. Breeder reactors    7. Criminals & Outlaws    8. Gifted boys    9. Hahn, David,    10. Nuclear Energy    11. Nuclear Reactors    12. Problem youth    13. Scientists - General    14. United States    15. Science / General   

Subjects:  1. Environmental aspects    2. General    3. Nuclear Energy    4. Nuclear industry    5. Nuclear power plants    6. Political aspects    7. Politics/International Relations    8. Risk assessment    9. Safety    10. Technology    11. Technology & Industrial Arts    12. United States    13. Nuclear power & engineering    14. Nuclear power industries    15. Popular science   

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Alfred Marcus, professor of strategy and technological leadership Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesot
This is profoundly important work on the culture of safety, written from an anthropologists perspective which deconstructs the meaning of people in nuclear power plants who see extreme risk around them all the time and have created devices to identify threats and respond, sometimes more appropriately than others. I highly recommend this boo.

A unique presentation
I read this book in an effort to better understand the civilian nuclear industry (which I have worked in since 1986). Having held various technical and management positions in the US Navy nuclear program and civilian nuclear industry, my experience is broad enough to conclude that Constance Perin has done her homework. She brings a cultural anthropologist's view to the management of risk at nuclear power stations, which are often run by and for technocrats, so her perspective is refreshing. She takes a balanced approach and appears to have no personal agenda regarding nuclear power. Much of what she says rings true, although I found her writing style to be stilted and distracting. I do not recommend SHOULDERING RISKS for anyone looking for a casual read, but it is worth the effort for those seeking to learn more about humans perceive and manage risks in complex, high-stakes environments. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Anthropology - Cultural    2. Business & Economics    3. Business / Economics / Finance    4. Business/Economics    5. Industries - Energy Industries    6. Management - General    7. Nuclear Energy    8. Nuclear industry    9. Nuclear power plants    10. Risk assessment    11. Risk management    12. Safety measures    13. Anthropology    14. Business & Economics / Management    15. Nuclear power industries    16. Political Science and International Relations    17. Sociology    18. The Environment   

Subjects:  1. Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Ch    2. Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobyl§, Ukraine, 1986    3. Disasters & Disaster Relief    4. Europe - Russia & the Former Soviet Union    5. History    6. History - General History    7. Nuclear Energy    8. Nuclear Plant Safety    9. Science    10. Science/Mathematics    11. Environmental impact of industrial disasters    12. Environmental impact of radiation    13. Nuclear issues    14. Science / Physics    15. Ukraine   

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Asleep at the Geiger Counter
This sharp dissection and expos? of the nuclear industry informs of dangers we will not hear about from our news media.It also provides environmentally sound, attainable solutions to the crisis. All Americans should read this to understand the dark side of nuclear power, in order to better protect our environment and future. I could not "put the book down" once I started. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Business/Economics    2. Government policy    3. Nuclear Energy    4. Nuclear industry    5. Offenses against the environme    6. Offenses against the environment    7. Technology & Industrial Arts    8. United States   

Subjects:  1. Engineering - Nuclear    2. Science/Mathematics    3. Technology    4. Technology & Industrial Arts    5. Engineering thermodynamics    6. Nuclear power & engineering   

Subjects:  1. Environmental Engineering & Technology    2. Environmental Policy    3. Environmental Science    4. Environmental Studies    5. Hazardous Waste Disposal And Treatment    6. Life Sciences - Ecology - Recycling    7. Nuclear Energy    8. Science/Mathematics    9. Technology    10. Pollution & threats to the environment    11. Science / Environmental Science    12. Waste management   

Subjects:  1. Accidents    2. Boiling water reactors    3. Engineering - Chemical & Biochemical    4. Engineering - Nuclear    5. Nuclear Plant Safety    6. Nuclear Reactor Operation    7. Pressurized water reactors    8. Safety measures    9. Technology & Industrial Arts    10. Technology / Engineering / Chemical & Biochemical    11. Technology: General Issues   

Subjects:  1. Arms race    2. History    3. History - Military / War    4. Military - Nuclear Warfare    5. Nuclear Energy    6. Nuclear weapons    7. Science/Mathematics    8. Technology    9. History of science    10. Treaties & other sources of international law