Peacetime Uses of Atomic Energy
New York: The Viking Press, 1961. Revised Edition. Hardcover. 191, [1] pages. Illustrations. Glossary. Ex-United States Atomic Energy Commission Library with the usual library markings. Cover has some edgewear, other wear, fading, and soiling. Contents include: The New World; The Smallest is the Greatest; Power for Everyone; Power for Everyone--For All Time; A New Way to Travel; A Tool to Reshape the Earth; The philosopher's Stone is Found--Isotopes; To Feed a Growing World; Atoms for Health; The Atom Works for Industry; How Science serves Science, and Tomorrow. The splitting of atoms has ushered in an era of which men long have dreamed. Science and industry have been putting this knowledge in to work and is already helping people to live better and proving its value to modern life. This book tells, in the simplest terms, about these many achievements. Over 100 photographs and drawings make them real and understandable to the reader. Nearly all of the pages in this work record what had already been done. The small amount of speculation about the future was not dreaming, but a description of accomplishment that are now know to be possible and are practically certain to become realities. Atomic energy is not really new. In 1939 a completely unanticipated discovery opened the way to the great development that was then occurring. The achievements of atomic energy that are detailed in this work were possible because of the atomic furnace, more accurately called a nuclear reactor. The reactor was a very unusual machine, for it did two separate and entirely different jobs. Both its abilities were of great practical value, and they were being developed simultaneously. On the one hand, the reactor was a furnace, and it made heat just as a furnace that consumed coal, etc. did. Besides its role as a heat-producing furnace, the nuclear reactor had another an equally important job. It generated swarms of atomic fragments, tiny, swiftly moving pieces of atoms. These proved to be very useful, The remarkable accomplished of these radioactive substances, which the atomic furnace could manufacture in quantity, occupy several chapters in this book they have proved valuable in almost every field of human endeavor. Medicine and agriculture have made perhaps the biggest initial use of atomic energy. Condition: Good.
Keywords: Atomic Energy, Peaceful Uses, Nuclear Medicine, Food Irradiation, Medical Isotopes, Electricity Generation, Nuclear Reactor, Atomic Furnace, Technology Development, Economic Development, Industrial Development
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