Neutron's Children

Neutron's Children

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Johnston Sean F.
Oxford University Press
EAN: 9780199692118
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The first nuclear engineers emerged from the Manhattan Project in the USA, UK and Canada, but remained hidden behind security for a further decade. Cosseted and cloistered by their governments, they worked to explore applications of atomic energy at a handful of national labs. This unique bottom-up history traces how the identities of these unusually voiceless experts - forming a uniquely state-managed discipline - were shaped in the context of pre-war nuclear physics, wartime industrial management, post-war politics and utopian energy programmes. Even after their eventual emergence at universities and companies, nuclear workers carried the enduring legacy of their origins. Their shared experiences shaped not only their identities, but our collective memories of the late twentieth century. And as illustrated by the Fukushima accident seven decades after the Manhattan project began, this book explains why they are still seen conflictingly as selfless heroes or as mistrusted guardians of a malevolent genie.
EAN 9780199692118
ISBN 0199692114
Binding Hardback
Publisher Oxford University Press
Publication date April 25, 2012
Pages 326
Language English
Dimensions 248 x 173 x 23
Country United Kingdom
Authors Johnston Sean F.
Illustrations 7 b&w line drawings, 20 b&w halftones