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Meltdown - Nuclear Disaster and the Human Cost of Going Critical

By Joel Levy

Book information

Publisher
Welbeck Publishing
Year
2021
ISBN
9781802790481, 9781787394995
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (5360916 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
320\0
Time added
2022-01-02 15:50:02

Description

Meltdown investigates and recreates the dramatic events behind the most notorious nuclear accidents in history, as well as those shrouded in secrecy. Combining human tragedy with intriguing science, each account reveals new aspects of humanity's complex relationship with nuclear power and the ongoing struggle to harness and control it. From the pioneers of Los Alamos who got up close and personal with the cores of atomic bombs, to the hapless engineers in Soviet fuel-processing plants who unwittingly mixed up a disaster in a bucket, and from the terrifying impact of a tsunami at Fukushima to the mystery of the recent Russian incident, Meltdown explores the past and future of this extraordinary and potentially lethal source of infinite power.

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