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The First Nuclear Era: The Life And Times Of A Technological Fixer is Alvin Weinberg's autobiography, the memoirs of an influential American nuclear engineer/physicist. These reminiscences date from the dawning of the nuclear age in the early 1940s to the present day. The First Nuclear Era is the story of one notable scientist's life and times and a look back at one of humankind's most ambitious endeavors: the attempt to harness and safely distribute nuclear power. Weinberg has witnessed and played a major part in many of the defining scientific moments of the nuclear era to date. Nuclear power reactors are no longer being built in the U. S. The first nuclear era is coming to a close. Alvin Weinberg's fascinating account of his seminal role in that era gives the reader an insider's look at how nuclear energy developed, how it faltered, and how and why it may yet rise again. The First Nuclear Era is a well written, informative, insightful and engaging autobiography with observations on critically important events and scientific developments that will have impact and influence well into the next century. -- Midwest Book Review
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Alvin Weinberg is one of the most influential nuclear engineers & physicists in the U.S., having participated in many high profile projects from the early days of nuclear research on into the 1980s. This book is his autobiography and it's peppered with first-hand accounts of major historical events. He writes about the events of December 2, 1942, when Fermi set into motion the first chain reaction in a uranium pile and goes on to describe what happened during the "First Nuclear Era" a period he admits that has now largely run its course. A proponent of nuclear power, Weinberg also exposed its down- side risks and for years remained in the forefront of strong science administration.
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My very first class at the University of Chicago was Herman Schlesinger's Chemistry 101. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
aircraft reactor experiment, second nuclear era, submarine intermediate reactor, first nuclear era, nuclear euphoria, aircraft nuclear propulsion project, thermal breeder, aqueous homogeneous, exponential experiments, flux trap, reactor vendors, chain reactors, indirect cycle, large nuclear plants, unenriched uranium, nuclear people, metallurgical project, reactor division, uranium slugs, molten fluorides, reactor development, isotope reactor, first chain reaction, desalting plants, nuclear enterprise Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oak Ridge, United States, Eugene Wigner, Los Alamos, General Electric, Soviet Union, University of Chicago, Advisory Committee, Middle East, Arthur Compton, Wally Zinn, Clinton Laboratories, New York, Three Mile Island, White House, Gale Young, Clinton Labs, Project Independence, Leo Szilard, Lewis Strauss, Bill Baker, Carl Eckart, Chet Holifield, Enrico Fermi, General Groves New!
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My very first class at the University of Chicago was Herman Schlesinger's Chemistry 101. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
aircraft reactor experiment, second nuclear era, submarine intermediate reactor, first nuclear era, nuclear euphoria, aircraft nuclear propulsion project, thermal breeder, aqueous homogeneous, exponential experiments, flux trap, reactor vendors, chain reactors, indirect cycle, large nuclear plants, unenriched uranium, nuclear people, metallurgical project, reactor division, uranium slugs, molten fluorides, reactor development, isotope reactor, first chain reaction, desalting plants, nuclear enterprise Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oak Ridge, United States, Eugene Wigner, Los Alamos, General Electric, Soviet Union, University of Chicago, Advisory Committee, Middle East, Arthur Compton, Wally Zinn, Clinton Laboratories, New York, Three Mile Island, White House, Gale Young, Clinton Labs, Project Independence, Leo Szilard, Lewis Strauss, Bill Baker, Carl Eckart, Chet Holifield, Enrico Fermi, General Groves New!
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- Nuclear Energy by Scientific American in Front Matter, page 160, and page 275
- The World Set Free by H. G. Wells on page 133, page 135, and page 256
- The Physical Theory of Neutron Chain Reactors by Alvin M. Weinberg on page 155, and page 167
- Atomic Energy (Merit Badge) by Boy Scouts of America on page 70, and page 163
- Silent Spring by Rachel Carson on page 273
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