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Nuclear Reactors: How Chicago Pile-1 and the Nuclear Navy Led to Chernobyl, Fukushima, and the Small Modular and Fusion Reactors That Became the Hidden Power Behind M

Nuclear Reactors: How Chicago Pile-1 and the Nuclear Navy Led to Chernobyl, Fukushima, and the Small Modular and Fusion Reactors That Became the Hidden Power Behind M


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About the Book

The most feared machine of the modern age is also one of its quietest miracles, and this is the book that takes you inside it.

Roughly one-tenth of the world's electricity flows from a heat source most people will never see, hear, or smell. Nuclear Reactors tells the whole story of that invisible workhorse: how a sliver of ceramic uranium no larger than a fingertip can pour out energy for years, how a wartime secret became the silent engine of modern civilization, and why the technology we fear the most has, by the cold arithmetic of harm, proven among the safest we have ever built.

From Enrico Fermi's first chain reaction beneath a Chicago football stadium to the small modular reactors and fusion machines now racing toward the grid, this comprehensive guide covers every major chapter of the atomic age. Each chapter pairs rigorous, accessible science with gripping human history: the admiral who forced a reactor into a submarine, the operators who fought their own machine at Three Mile Island, the doomed control room at Chernobyl, and the tsunami that overwhelmed Fukushima.

Inside this book, you'll discover:

  • The Physics of Fission Made Simple: uranium, neutrons, chain reactions, and E=mc² explained for any curious reader, with no physics degree required.
  • The Dawn of the Atomic Age: Enrico Fermi, the Manhattan Project, Chicago Pile-1, and the leap from the bomb to the peaceful power station.
  • Rickover's Nuclear Navy: how a relentless admiral put a reactor inside USS Nautilus and accidentally designed the template for the world's power plants.
  • The Reactor Zoo: pressurized water reactors, boiling water reactors, CANDU heavy water, sodium-cooled fast breeders, and the molten-salt and thorium roads not taken.
  • The Great Disasters: a clear-eyed account of Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima, what truly happened, what it cost, and what the world learned.
  • Radiation, Waste, and Fear: what radiation really does to the body, the truth about nuclear waste, Yucca Mountain, and Finland's Onkalo, and why dread so often outruns the data.
  • The Economics of the Atom: why a single reactor can cost ten billion dollars, and why France built a standardized fleet that still powers a nation.
  • The Atomic Renaissance: small modular reactors (SMRs), Generation IV designs, NuScale and TerraPower, and the long road to fusion energy.
Thoroughly researched and vividly told, Nuclear Reactors reads like narrative history and explains like a master teacher. As a warming world takes a sudden, urgent second look at clean, carbon-free power, there has never been a better moment to understand the machine that may help carry civilization through the climate century.

Scroll up and grab your copy today to step inside the hidden world of nuclear power.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798186733256
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 250
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: How Chicago Pile-1 and the Nuclear Navy Led to Chernobyl, Fukushima, and the Small Modular and Fusion Reactors That Became the Hidden Power Behind M
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8186733256
  • Publisher Date: 11 Jul 2026
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 340 gr


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