Download or read book Nuclear power development in the United States to 1960 written by Alfred George Dale and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nuclear Power Development in the United States to 1960 written by Alfred G. Dale and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frontiers in Atomic Energy Research written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Frontiers in Atomic Energy Research written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Subcommittee on Research and Development and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers future applications of nuclear sciences including extracting power from the H-bomb by thermonuclear reactors, nuclear explosives for peaceful purposes, space propulsion and power for satellites and space ships, direct energy conversion to electricity, and solar energy systems.
Download or read book Atomic Energy Commission Appropriations for 1960 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Public Works Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews recent nuclear power plant developments. Includes discussion of British reactor programs and U.S. naval nuclear power applications.
Download or read book Fundamental Nuclear Energy Research written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Division of Plans and Reports and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Development Growth and State of the Atomic Energy Industry written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 687 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Science Politics And Controversy written by Stephen L Del Sesto and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-26 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As of June 1977, the United States had some 232 nuclear power plants either planned or in operation, with a generating capacity estimated at about 321 million kilowatts. To date, the industrial world has spent over $200 billion in order to produce useful energy from nuclear fission. By all odds, civilian nuclear power is one of the largest technological ventures in history. To many, this massive effort is completely justified: No other single technology offers as much promise for satisfying world energy needs in the years ahead—particularly as fossil fuels dwindle and climb drastically in price. Yet to others, there is no single technology which raises such serious questions of risk to public health and safety.
Download or read book Review of Proposed Power Demonstration Project written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Subcommittee on Legislation and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews the proposed joint effort of AEC, General Electric Co. and Consumers Power Co. on the construction, operation and testing of high power density of a nuclear power plant at Big Rock Point, Mich.
Download or read book Containing the Atom written by J. Samuel Walker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late 1960s saw an extraordinary growth in the American nuclear industry: dozens of plants of unprecedented size were ordered throughout the country. Yet at the same time, public concern about the natural environment and suspicion of both government and industry increased dramatically. Containing the Atom is the first scholarly history of nuclear power regulation during those tumultuous years. J. Samuel Walker focuses on the activities of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, the agency entrusted with the primary responsibility for the safety of nuclear power, and shows that from the beginning the AEC faced a paradox: it was charged with both promoting and controlling the nuclear power industry. Out of this paradox grew severe tensions, which Walker discusses in detail. His balanced evaluation of the issues and the positions taken by the AEC and others makes this study an invaluable resource for all those interested in the continuing controversies that surround nuclear energy. The late 1960s saw an extraordinary growth in the American nuclear industry: dozens of plants of unprecedented size were ordered throughout the country. Yet at the same time, public concern about the natural environment and suspicion of both government and industry increased dramatically. Containing the Atom is the first scholarly history of nuclear power regulation during those tumultuous years. J. Samuel Walker focuses on the activities of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, the agency entrusted with the primary responsibility for the safety of nuclear power, and shows that from the beginning the AEC faced a paradox: it was charged with both promoting and controlling the nuclear power industry. Out of this paradox grew severe tensions, which Walker discusses in detail. His balanced evaluation of the issues and the positions taken by the AEC and others makes this study an invaluable resource for all those interested in the continuing controversies that surround nuclear energy.
Download or read book Development Growth and State of the Atomic Energy Industry written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Backround material October 1960 pp 495 1000 written by Robert Moody McKinney and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 1090 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Politics of Nuclear Power written by D.P. McCaffrey and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several individuals noted the potentially important civilian uses of atomic energy shortly after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. That year J. Robert Oppenheimer told a national radio audience that "in the near future" it would be possible to generate profitable electric power from "controlled nuclear chain reaction units" (reactors). It was suggested that, after fIfteen to twenty-five years of development, mature nuclear technology could provide virtually inexhaustible, cheap energy given the abundance of nuclear fuel. Admiral Lewis Strauss, the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, stated that atomic power would generate electricity "too cheap to meter" (A statement that, according to Brookhaven National Laboratories' physicist Herbert Kouts, immediately "caused consternation among his technical advisors" [Kouts, 1983: 3)). For a brief period it was thought that airplanes would fly using atomic power, and homes would install small nuclear reactors for heat and hot water. 1950s and early 1960s a small number of prototype nuclear In the reactors came on line in the United States. The first power plant protoype reactor began operation in Shippingport, Pennsylvania in 1957. It was followed by the Dresden 1 unit near Chicago in 1959, the Yankee plant in Rowe, Massachusetts (1960), and the Indian Point (New York) and Big Rock Point (Michigan) plants in 1%2. These five plants had a combined 800 megawatts (800 MW), or less than one generating capacity ofless than percent of the total American electricity generating capacity in 1962.
Download or read book Atomic Power and Private Enterprise written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book U S Financial Assistance in the Development of Foreign Nuclear Energy Programs Multiagency written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Review of Proposed Power Demonstration Project written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews the proposed joint effort of AEC, General Electric Co. and Consumers Power Co. on the construction, operation and testing of high power density of a nuclear power plant at Big Rock Point, Mich.
Download or read book Reactor development program excluding civilian power program February 8 9 10 and April 8 1965 written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
