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Atoms, Radiation, and Radiation Protection, 2nd Edition

James E. Turner

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Atoms, Radiation, and Radiation Protection offers professionals and advanced students a comprehensive background in the major concepts of radiation and radiation protection. Covering both the basic physics of radiation and its applications, it provides a lucid and coherent account of the origins and properties of the different kinds of ionizing radiation, its detection and measurement, and the procedures used to protect people and the environment from its harmful effects. This book illustrates the basic physical principles with an abundance of practical, worked-out examples, numerical problems, real world applications, and data. This thoroughly updated Second Edition includes expanded treatment of biological effects, radon, risk assessment, and statistics.

Researchers, administrators, and graduate students in health physics, environmental sciences, nuclear engineering, medical physics, and other fields involved with ionizing radiation will find Atoms, Radiation, and Radiation Protection an invaluable guide to a vitally important area.

Windscale 1957: Anatomy of a Nuclear Accident

Lorna Arnold

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In 1957, one of the two reactors built at Windscale was destroyed by fire, in the world's first major nuclear accident. This book describes the fire and what followed, and considers its causes, effects and political importance. It throws a revealing new light on an important event of fifty years ago and on questions of secrecy and responsibility.

The Useful Atom

William R. Anderson, Vernon Pizer

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The Legacy of Chernobyl

Zhores A. Medvedev

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

A little too technical for me. 3 out of 5 stars.
21 of 29 people found this review helpful.

I bought this book hoping for a general introduction to the explosion, its causes and its aftermath. The book does contain such information, but it's buried underneath a heavy layer of technical detail that can be, at times, mind-numbingly boring. Unless you are a nuclear engineer or otherwise interested in the minutiae of the reactor's workings, I'd skip this book.

Is there really No Breathing Room? 3 out of 5 stars.
4 of 20 people found this review helpful.

I thought this was a very good novel. I used this on several occations as a document for research papers I have wrote on the subject of Nuclear power and Chernobyl. The author is very accurate and shows the world what goes on behind the scenes.

Fantastic book 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

This book takes you right into the Chernobyl disaster. From the bungling government and perverse incentives placed on the nuclear engineer teams which made it a disaster just waiting to happen, to the clean up, evacuation (largely also botched) and health effects of the nuclear fallout.

It is amazingly detailed. The author even discusses wind patterns during the disaster which effected what areas were worst effected by what radioactive material (as the disaster progressed the wind AND the composition of the radioactive dust changed). I can honestly say that I was never really bored even though it gets technical in places.

The author's writing style actually makes a reader feel that they are there when the Reactor explodes... not to mention (for one example out of many)sharing frustration at the government's incompetence when they delay an evacuation for half a day thereby increasing the populations poisoning over ten-fold.

Highly Recommended.

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On the morning of April 26, 1986, a Soviet nuclear plant at Chernobyl (near Kiev) exploded, pouring radioactivity into the environment and setting off the worst disaster in the history of nuclear energy. Now a former Soviet scientist gives a comprehensive account of the catastrophe. Photographs.

Secret

Wesley Winans Stout

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Guidebook to Light Water Reactor Safety Analysis (Proceedings of the International Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer)

P. B. Abramson

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The Guidebook to Light Water Reactor Safety Analysis brings together government and expert researchers entrusted with maintaining the safety of reactors, preventing incidents, and for creating the guidelines for responding appropriately to emergency situations. It includes an overview presented by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. One of the most relevant compendiums of its time, it's a volume of both historical and scientific significance and well worth the consideration of those currently involved with maintaining reactor safety..

The Warning: Accident at Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Omen for the Age of Terror

Mike Gray, Ira Rosen

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Couldn't put it down 4 out of 5 stars.
10 of 11 people found this review helpful.

Very intriguing book about the near disaster at Three Mile Island. Very well written, it keeps you spellbound to the very last period. It explains what went wrong with excellent detail. Enough information to keep you spellbound, but not enough to bore you with unnecessary details. A very well written book. A must if you want to learn the true story about Three Mile Island.

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By 6:00 a.m. on the morning of March 28, 1979, the reactor core at Three Mile Island was thirty minutes away from a meltdown, an apocalypse that would render a huge swath of eastern Pennsylvania permanently uninhabitable. The control room crew was at a loss. The memo that would have warned them was never sent.

This factual, riveting thriller is based on exclusive interviews with key operating personnel. Mike Gray, author of The China Syndrome, and Ira Rosen, producer for CBS's 60 Minutes, have updated this jackhammer narrative of mechanical failure and human error with an analysis of the current threats to our nuclear power plants. With a new introduction and epilogue for this reissue edition.

Chernobyl: A Documentary Story

Iurii Shcherbak, David R. Marples

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Dr. Shcherbak traveled to the dangerous zone around the reactor at Chernobyl, lived there and interviewed firemen, first-aid workers, party and government officials, local media representatives, and foreign visitors. The result is a variety of vivid eyewitness accounts unprecedented in detail and frankness.

Red Atom: Russia's Nuclear Power Program from Stalin to Today

Paul R. Josephson

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In 1956, the head of the Soviet atomic bomb project presented a stunning vision of his country's futurea time when giant reactors would generate energy quickly and cheaply, when nuclear engines would power cars, ships, and airplanes, and when peaceful nuclear explosions would transform the landscape to fit the country's agricultural and industrial needs. Driven by the energy of the atom, the dream of communism would become a powerful reality. But, thirty years later, that dream died for good in the rubble of Chernobyla tragedy that ultimately came to symbolize the failure of Soviet rule and the bankruptcy of communism. What went wrong?

Based on rare archival research and interviews, Red Atom takes a behind-the-scenes look at the history of the Soviet Union's peaceful use of nuclear power. It explores the bomb projects, reactor "parks," nuclear engines, and radioisotope tests that reflected a society-wide enthusiasm for science and technology. It also introduces the men behind the machinesthe physicists and scientists who formed an arrogant technocratic eliteas well as the politicians who were dedicated to increasing the power of the state at the expense of the people. Finally, Red Atom describes the political, economic, and environmental fallout of Chernobyl, and examines the future of atomic energy in Russia.

A story of big science run amok, Red Atom illuminates the problems that can befall any society heavily invested in large-scale technology.

The atomic bomb and the end of the world

Hyman Jedidiah Appelman

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