Nuclear Power From Underseas To Outer Space

Author : John Wistar Simpson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780894485596
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nuclear Power from Underseas to Outer Space written by John Wistar Simpson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Simpson, former president of Westinghouse Power Systems Company and past president of the American Nuclear Society, provides a vibrant account of the events associated with the birth of the nuclear industry. Simpson's account of his career and the many turns it took is formidable. Sixteen chapters provide the reader with a historical perspective portrayed by a person whose role, energy, and contributions to the development of fission power are significant. Simpson takes you through the building and operation of the first submarine, nuclear propulsion units, Shippingport, the astronuclear years, and early commercial power. Written largely in narrative and anecdotal form, the technical story is also provided. The final chapter provides a summary and the author's thought-provoking view of the future of nuclear power.

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Special Subcommittee on Outer Space Propulsion
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8C/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outer Space Propulsion by Nuclear Energy written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Special Subcommittee on Outer Space Propulsion and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classified material has been deleted.

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Outer Space Propulsion by Nuclear Energy written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nuclear Power in Space written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Energy Research and Development and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : International Atomic Energy Agency. United Nations. General Assembly. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Safety Framework for Nuclear Power Source Applications in Outer Space written by International Atomic Energy Agency. United Nations. General Assembly. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Clay Moltz
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804779740
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Space Security written by James Clay Moltz and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a time when no other country enjoys the advantages that the United States currently reaps from space, some U.S. officials argue that U.S. space defenses will be needed to protect access to critical military and civilian assets in orbit. Others argue that space should be a valuable "sanctuary" from deployed weapons and military conflict. To inform this debate—and develop meaningful guidelines for the future—Clay Moltz has undertaken the only comprehensive study of the first 50 years of space security, highlighting the main trends in military space developments, their underlying causes, and the factors that are likely to influence their future course. What emerges is a picture of surprising military restraint shown by the United States and the Soviet Union in space, and the inescapable conclusion that the only way forward is through a multilateral commitment to interdependent, environmentally focused space security.

Author : James Moltz
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804780749
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Space Security written by James Moltz and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past five decades have witnessed often fierce international rivalry in space, but also surprising military restraint. Now, with an increasing number of countries capable of harming U.S. space assets, experts and officials have renewed a long-standing debate over the best route to space security. Some argue that space defenses will be needed to protect critical military and civilian satellites. Others argue that space should be a "sanctuary" from deployed weapons and military conflict, particularly given the worsening threat posed by orbital space debris. Moltz puts this debate into historical context by explaining the main trends in military space developments since Sputnik, their underlying causes, and the factors that are likely to influence their future course. This new edition provides analysis of the Obama administration's space policy and the rise of new actors, including China, India, and Iran. His conclusion offers a unique perspective on the mutual risks militaries face in space and the need for all countries to commit to interdependent, environmentally focused space security.

Author : Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
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Download or read book Nuclear Power Sources in Outer Space written by Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Willis L. Shirk
Publisher : Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN 13 : 145756145X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Atomic Space Age and Its Implications for the Future written by Willis L. Shirk and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Atomic Space Age has been and continues to be an engine for future wealth creation. Humanity stands on the verge of becoming an interplanetary species. We know we are made of star-stuff precisely because many of the isotopes in our bodies originated in the death throes of dying suns. With the discovery of nuclear fission in 1938, mankind was for the first time able to glimpse both our distant past and our possible future. As with the discovery of fire and agriculture thousands of years ago, wind power hundreds of years ago, and steam power and electricity in the nineteenth century, we must now learn to tame this powerful new force locked within the heart of the atom. Buckminster Fuller once observed that wealth is nothing more than energy compounded by ingenuity. Since (mass-)energy can never decrease, and ingenuity will only increase, there is no limit to the quantity of wealth that our species can and will create using nuclear space propulsion.

Author : Patrick Vitale
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145296565X
Total Pages : 238 pages
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Download or read book Nuclear Suburbs written by Patrick Vitale and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From submarines to the suburbs—the remaking of Pittsburgh during the Cold War During the early Cold War, research facilities became ubiquitous features of suburbs across the United States. Pittsburgh’s eastern and southern suburbs hosted a constellation of such facilities that became the world’s leading center for the development of nuclear reactors for naval vessels and power plants. The segregated communities that surrounded these laboratories housed one of the largest concentrations of nuclear engineers and scientists on earth. In Nuclear Suburbs, Patrick Vitale uncovers how the suburbs shaped the everyday lives of these technology workers. Using oral histories, Vitale follows nuclear engineers and scientists throughout and beyond the Pittsburgh region to understand how the politics of technoscience and the Cold War were embedded in daily life. At the same time that research facilities moved to Pittsburgh’s suburbs, a coalition of business and political elites began an aggressive effort, called the Pittsburgh Renaissance, to renew the region. For Pittsburgh’s elite, laboratories and researchers became important symbols of the new Pittsburgh and its postindustrial economy. Nuclear Suburbs exposes how this coalition enrolled technology workers as allies in their remaking of the city. Offering lessons for the present day, Nuclear Suburbs shows how race, class, gender, and the production of urban and suburban space are fundamental to technoscientific networks, and explains how the “renewal” of industrial regions into centers of the tech economy is rooted in violence and injustice.