Customer Reviews

Nuclear Energy

5 star:		(14)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(5)

 

 

I ordered this book to complete my doomsday weapon. The information is clear and well drawn-out, particularly the detail regarding the fusion of plasma energy with dark matter. My weapon was finished on schedule. Guaranteed Armageddon. It was beautiful, really. Except it turned out that due to a tiny error on page 601 of the book, my device was not exactly a success. I now have to start from scratch. Beginning with my army of minions.

After all this time, Amazon and the publishers are listening to our $6999.99 boycott! To show my pleasure and to reward them for doing so, I purchased this book.

The first couple of chapters were slow and went over the basics of nuclear energy that I learned in the 4th grade. However, by chapter 3, the pace really started to pick up and I could. not. put. it. down! The suspense was killing me!

I now have about half a reactor built in my backyard and am waiting a delivery from Home Depot and Bed, Bath and Beyond to finalize the construction.

When it is completed, I will drink from the pool, as illustrated in chapter 13, in order to obtain great strength so that I may, once and for all, pound my older brother in to the sand with my pinkie finger, as I threatened to do all those years ago, for putting me in a headlock and slugging me in the gut.

Thank you, Landolt and Bornstein! You helped one girl get her revenge!

From the moment I started reading this fascinating piece of literature I constantly would ask myself one question..."Is this worth the $6,000 I just spent?". In a word, yes. Sure, the price may ward off some people but when you break it down, it's only a bit over $10 per page. You can't see a movie anymore for $10. As you read the ins and outs of boiling water reactors, pressurized steam reactors, and a multitude of new advancements in the world of nuclear energy, you'll quickly forget that you could have gone to Europe, bought a decent used Harley, or even a well equipped man cave instead. Buy it. Right now.

This is easily the best book on the market right now about Energy Technologies. As soon as I got it in the mail and felt its almost glowing metallic power in my hands and saw its vibrant, assertive, yet passionate blue cover, I knew my $6,000 had been well-invested. After reading the book while beating World of Warcraft for the 15th and 16th times respectively, I then used the supplied plutonium core hidden between the two back pages to build my first nuclear power plant using parts from my microwave, my blender, my clarinet from fifth grade, and my lawnmower. I was finally able to power the tractor beam that I built using my Chevy Manza and two tubes of toothpaste detailed in these guys' other book, "Advanced Meteorite Acquisition Techniques Volume III".

Overall, a highly recommended book.

Sure I can render my foes defenseless with the mighty transmogrifier I made after finishing chapter 5 but I was lead to believe this was the "Pop Up" version of Nuclear Energy (Landolt-Bornstein: Numerical Data and Functional Relationships in Science and Technology). I already own the abridged version of Nuclear Energy (Landolt-Bornstein: Numerical Data and Functional Relationships in Science and Technology) and while it did allow me to dabble in the juvenile realm of cold fusion it was the tantilizing prospect of world domination wrought via colorful anime pop ups that really hooked me in to this purchase. On a plus note the illustrations (while only 2D) are hilarous. Landolt-Bornstein are famous for their wit (as witnessed in the classic "Bornstein Bears" cartoon series). Bottom line, if you already own the original Nuclear Energy (Landolt-Bornstein: Numerical Data and Functional Relationships in Science and Technology) skip this purchase; if your looking to expand your library of Numerical Data and Functional Relationship books and don't mind the lack of 3D Pop Up Support then buy a copy today.

Simply a gem; thank you Landolt and Bornstein!. Within a few years of buying this book, I had finally done enough research to make it through the first chapter. That same day, I was able to construct my own highly-stable supercritical water cooled nuclear reactor - a perfect Christmas present! Granted, no one on my Christmas list *asked* for a nuclear reactor, but hey, if they don't like it, screw 'em! When was the last time they built their own nuclear power source? Bunch of naysayers. You sit in your tower. I don't need this...

Great book - happily awaiting the sequel!

I am the Chief Nuclear Operations Officer of the Illiad, a Simpson 6X quantum spacecraft traveling in the 98th percentile cone of probability trajectory 2007 AD EG, at a location near what is known as Uranus. I stumbled into the job when George X. Bush the 23rd, a close friend, plucked me out of business school and placed me at the helm of the Illiad, the largest of the fleet of 20 Earth escape ships. With a crew of around 500, we are responsible for the lives of the nearly 2 million cryogenically stored humans aboard.

At a time we know as phase 0832:3F9A of the GAC (Great Atomic Clock), we suddenly found the life support systems for the kitchen crew, who are completely quarantined in their own module of the ship, were starting to fail. Fortunately, my team detected the problem quickly (primarily due to suspicions related to an odd taste in the breakfast guacamole). My first officer determined the source of the problem: a quantum phase exchanger, the equivalent of a radiator in a mechanical drive. Unfortunately, none of the crew was familiar with how to repair this device, and there were no spares aboard the Illiad.

My crew looked to me for technical leadership. My credentials had been falsified so that they were under the impression I actually knew something about nuclear... stuff. While I lacked any knowledge of relativity or even basic physics, I did know how to order digital books online. I figured for a scenario as dire as this, no expense should be spared. I ordered this book, the most expensive book about Nuclear Energy I could find.

As the book was downloading, the problem fixed itself. If you know anything about quantum mechanics, you know that it's possible that this was not just a coincidence. It is for this reason that I highly recommend buying and downloading this book during catastrophic failures of quantum spaceship equipment.

I, like another reviewer, am glad that Amazon is finally listening to the $6,999.99 Kindle boycott movement. Since they finally made this book affordable, I gave it a go. It's a well-written piece, but it does tend to drivel on at the end about applications of nuclear energy.

I originally bought this book to complete my laser beam array for my home security system; I needed the ability to put up a laser grid that could burn a zombie in half simply by crossing the line into my yard (Resident Evil style). As it turned out, I needed 7.66 gigawatts of energy to power the beam system, and my local power company said they couldn't provide that kind of energy without a few billion dollars a month. So, I had to find an alternative.

And an alternative I found in this book. At just over 6-grand, it's a steal! (compared to billions of dollars a month in electric bills)

This book taught me how to obtain my uranium, how to build the reactor, and how to control my power plant from melting down. No messy Chernobyl incidents here!

Why it didn't make it to 5 stars: the book does seem to ramble on and on at the end about safety issues and radioactivity concerns, but who worries about that kind of crap anymore?

Ah, the stupid thing is overheating again. I'll be back - if I make it.

Stumbled across this book and thought, "You gotta be kidding me." After I laughed my way through the reviews, I click over to the hard cover version to do the "Look Inside" thing.

All I can say is this:
Was this book even edited? The second sentence of the first chapter sounds like someone NON-ENGLISH attempting English!

And I quote, "Since long time before mankind started to develop technologies to provide engery from fusion of light atomic nuclei and from fission of heavy atomic nuclei, nature has been releasing energy from fusion and fission processes: Fusion of hydrogen to helium nuclei is the energy source of the stars like the sun."

Since long time...?

There is so much more going wrong with this overly long sentence, I will leave it at that.

Since long time...

hahahaha

Makes me think of "Full Metal Jacket" ... "me love you long time..."

lol

I bought this item for my Kindle by mistake. If you just want to get a sample chapter then be VERY careful which button you press.

I also recommend that you start with Nuclear Energy: Principles, Practices, and Prospects by David Bodansky. It may not go into the same depth as this book, but then again Bodansky's book is under $100.

Don't do like me and blow your whole book buying budget is just one shot -- stupid 'Buy with One Click' button.