Nuclear Civil Engineering; Outline Syllabus for the course CE 277 given Winter Quarter, 1966, TID - 23748
Washington DC: United States Atomic Energy Commission, Division of Technical Information, 1966. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus. Wraps. [6], iv, 330 pages. Figures. Formulae. Problems. Cover worn and soiled/stained. Writing/marks and stamp on front cover. This is a rare surviving copy of this seminal inaugural nuclear civil engineering graduate level curriculum. Among the instructors for this course were: Gerald Johnson, Wilson Talley, Glenn Werth, Theodore Cherry, David Lombard, Milo Nordyke, Joseph Knox, Stanley Davis, Edward Teller, Ernest Graves, Henry Parker, David Todd, and Willard Libby. Among the topics covered are: Nuclear Fission and Fusion, the Nuclear Explosion, the Physics of Nuclear Energy, Seismic Source, Propagation, and Structures Response, the Contained Nuclear Explosion, Cratering Mechanics, Plowshare Experience with Contained Nuclear Explosives, Plowshare Experience with Cratering, Radionuclides, Radiation, and the Environment, Hazards Evaluation - Venting, Radioactivity, and Air Blast, Hazards Evaluation- Groundwater, Scientific Applications, A Sea-Level Isthmian Canal, Civil Applications - Construction, Civil Applications - Water Resources, Industrial Applications, and The Future Prospects for Nuclear Civil Engineering. This syllabus was a compilation of lecture notes prepared for the first course in Nuclear Civil Engineering given at Stanford University during the Winter Quarter, 1966. The course encompassed the civil engineering aspects of nuclear explosives, based upon the progress achieved by the Plowshare Program of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission in harnessing the tremendous power available from nuclear explosives for peaceful purposes. Key presenters included:
Edward Teller (January 15, 1908 – September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-American theoretical physicist who is known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb" (see the Teller–Ulam design), although he did not care for the title, and was only part of a team who developed the technology. Throughout his life, Teller was known for his scientific ability.
Willard Frank Libby (December 17, 1908 – September 8, 1980) was an American physical chemist noted for his role in the 1949 development of radiocarbon dating, a process which revolutionized archaeology and paleontology. For his contributions to the team that developed this process, Libby was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960. During World War II he worked in the Manhattan Project's Substitute Alloy Materials (SAM) Laboratories at Columbia University, developing the gaseous diffusion process for uranium enrichment. In 1950, he became a member of the General Advisory Committee (GAC) of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC). He was appointed a commissioner in 1954, becoming its sole scientist. He sided with Edward Teller on pursuing a crash program to develop the hydrogen bomb, participated in the Atoms for Peace program, and defended the administration's atmospheric nuclear testing.
Milo Nordyke was a peaceful nuclear explosives scientist and advocate working at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Wilson Talley was instrumental in the formation of the department of applied science at UC Davis/Livermore.
Dr. Glenn Werth later in his career became Associate Director for Energy Resource Planning for the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.
James B. Knox began his 30-year career with the LLNL (then called the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory) in 1957, responsible for developing the capabilities needed to simulate the cratering process and dispersal of any radionuclide injections that might result from potential use of nuclear explosives.
Ernest Graves Jr. (6 July 1924 – 21 May 2019) was a United States Army officer who attained the rank of lieutenant general. A graduate of the United States Military Academy, where he was ranked second in the class of 1944, he commanded troops in Europe during World War II and in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. He served with a bomb assembly team with the Manhattan Project and was present at the Operation Sandstone nuclear tests in 1948. He was the Director of Military Application at the Atomic Energy Commission its successor, the Energy Research and Development Administration, from 1973 to 1975, the Deputy Chief of Engineers from 1977 to 1978, and the director of the Defense Security Assistance Agency from 1978 to 1981. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Gerald Johnson, Wilson Talley, Glenn Werth, Theodore Cherry, David Lombard, Milo Nordyke, Joseph Knox, Stanley Davis, Edward Teller, Ernest Graves, Henry Parker, David Todd, Willard Libby.
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