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Tucker, Todd

 
9780803234024: Atomic America: How a Deadly Explosion and a Feared Admiral Changed the Course of Nuclear History
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ISBN 10 : 0803234023 ISBN 13 : 9780803234024
Editeur : Bison Books, 2010

Synopsis

"Incorporating the career of Admiral Hyman Rickover, the creator of the nuclear navy, Tucker's work importantly recalls a forgotten warning from nuclear history."--Gilbert Taylor, Booklist

On January 3, 1961, nuclear reactor SL-1 exploded in rural Idaho, spreading radioactive contamination over thousands of acres and killing three men. The army blamed "human error" and a sordid love triangle. Though overshadowed by Three Mile Island, SL-1 remains the only fatal nuclear reactor incident in American history.
Todd Tucker, who first heard the rumors about the Idaho Falls explosion as a trainee in the navy's nuclear program, suspected there was more to the accident than rumors suggested. Poring over hundreds of pages of primary sources and interviewing survivors revealed that the army and its contractors had deliberately obscured the true cause of the accident, which resulted from poor engineering as much as uncontrolled passions.

The National Reactor Testing Station, where the meltdown occurred, had been a proving ground where engineers, generals, and admirals attempted to realize the Atomic Age dream of unlimited power--amid the frantic race for nuclear power between the army, the navy, and the air force. The fruit of those ambitious plans included that of the nation's unofficial nuclear patriarch, Admiral Rickover, whose "true submarine," the USS Nautilus, would forever change naval warfare. But with the meltdown in Idaho came the end of the army's program and the beginning of the navy's long-standing monopoly on military nuclear power.

Atomic America provides a fast-paced narrative history, advocating caution and accountability in harnessing nuclear energy.

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À propos de l'auteur

Todd Tucker served as an officer with the U.S. Navy's nuclear submarine force and is the author of The Great Starvation Experiment.

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Éditeur
Bison Books
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0803234023
ISBN 13 
9780803234024
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
Buchpark GmbH
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