The Radioactive Boy Scout一个神童和他自制核反应堆的真实故事
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作者： Ken Silverstein等
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出版时间： 2005-1-1字数：版次： 1页数： 209印刷时间： 2005/01/01开本： 32开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9780812966602包装： 平装内容简介
Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinated by science. While he was working on his Atomic Energy badge for the Boy Scouts, David’s obsessive attention turned to nuclear energy. Throwing caution to the wind, he plunged into a new project: building a model nuclear reactor in his backyard garden shed.
Posing as a physics professor, David solicited information on reactor design from the U.S. government and from industry experts. Following blueprints he found in an outdated physics textbook, David cobbled together a crude device that threw off toxic levels of radiation. His wholly unsupervised project finally sparked an environmental emergency that put his town’s forty thousand suburbanites at risk. The EPA ended up burying his lab at a radioactive dumpsite in Utah. This offbeat account of ambition and, ultimately, hubris has the narrative energy of a first-rate thriller.
目录
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
PROLOGUE Men in White: The Nuclear Age Comes to Golf Manor
CHAPTER 1 Roots: The Making of a Teenage Scientist
CHAPTER 2 From the Radium Craze to the Soaring Sixties: Science Conquers All
CHAPTER 3 Burning Down the House: Basement Explosions and Other Early Developments
CHAPTER 4 Radioactive Education: Lessons from the Boy Scouts
CHAPTER 5 Stalking the Periodic Table: Elements, My Dear Watson
CHAPTER 6 How Nuclear Enthusiasts Planned to Solve the Energy Crisis: A Brief History of the
Breeder Reactor
CHAPTER 7 From Theory to Practice:How the Potting Shed Came to Glow
CHAPTER 8 Busted:The Collapse of David's Dream
EPILOGUE Postnuclear Syndrome:David's Rdioactive Exile
AUTHOR'S NOTE
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