Meltdown
Nuclear Disaster and the Human Cost of Going Critical
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Kris Dyer
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Joel Levy
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Meltdown investigates and recreates the dramatic events behind the most notorious nuclear accidents in history, as well as those shrouded in secrecy.
Combining human tragedy with intriguing science, each account reveals new aspects of humanity's complex relationship with nuclear power and the ongoing struggle to harness and control it. From the pioneers of Los Alamos who got up close and personal with the cores of atomic bombs, to the hapless engineers in Soviet fuel-processing plants who unwittingly mixed up a disaster in a bucket, and from the terrifying impact of a tsunami at Fukushima to the mystery of the recent Russian incident, Meltdown explores the past and future of this extraordinary and potentially lethal source of infinite power
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Atoms and Ashes recounts the dramatic history of nuclear accidents that have dogged the industry in its military and civil incarnations since the 1950s. Through the stories of six terrifying major incidents—Bikini Atoll, Kyshtym, Windscale, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima—Cold War expert Serhii Plokhy explores the risks of nuclear power, both for military and peaceful purposes, while offering a vivid account of how individuals and governments make decisions under extraordinary circumstances.
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3 out of 5 stars
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This was a pretty sensational and biased book.
- De J. Seawright en 06-11-22
De: Serhii Plokhy
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The Apocalypse Factory
- Plutonium and the Making of the Atomic Age
- De: Steve Olson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 11 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 102
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 91
It began with plutonium, the first element ever manufactured in quantity by humans. Fearing that the Germans would be the first to weaponize the atom, the United States marshaled brilliant minds and seemingly inexhaustible bodies to find a way to create a nuclear chain reaction of inconceivable explosive power. In a matter of months, the Hanford nuclear facility was built to produce and weaponize the enigmatic and deadly new material that would fuel atomic bombs.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Lacking in many aspects
- De ATM en 08-27-20
De: Steve Olson
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Chernobyl 01:23:40
- The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster
- De: Andrew Leatherbarrow
- Narrado por: Michael Page
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,020
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 901
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 900
At 01:23:40 on April 26th 1986, Alexander Akimov pressed the emergency shutdown button at Chernobyl's fourth nuclear reactor. It was an act that forced the permanent evacuation of a city, killed thousands, and crippled the Soviet Union. The event spawned decades of conflicting, exaggerated, and inaccurate stories.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Lost in his own navel
- De Christopher en 10-17-16
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Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
- De: Susan Stranahan, David Lochbaum, The Union of Concerned Scientists, y otros
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 12 h y 4 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 211
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 192
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 193
On March 11, 2011, an earthquake large enough to knock the earth from its axis sent a massive tsunami speeding toward the Japanese coast and the aging and vulnerable Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors. Over the following weeks, the world watched in horror as a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe: fail-safes failed, cooling systems shut down, nuclear rods melted.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Internal workings of the NRC
- De Eduards J. Vucins en 05-11-14
De: Susan Stranahan, y otros
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Midnight in Chernobyl
- De: Adam Higginbotham
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 13 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 7,858
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 6,881
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 6,842
April 25, 1986 in Chernobyl was a turning point in world history. The disaster not only changed the world’s perception of nuclear power and the science that spawned it, but also our understanding of the planet’s delicate ecology. With the images of the abandoned homes and playgrounds beyond the barbed wire of the 30-kilometer Exclusion Zone, the rusting graveyards of contaminated trucks and helicopters, the farmland lashed with black rain, the event fixed for all time the notion of radiation as an invisible killer.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Midnight in Chernobyl is the book to listen to.
- De NH en 03-21-19
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Command and Control
- Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety
- De: Eric Schlosser
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 20 h y 34 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,164
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,857
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,847
Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to uncover secrets about the management of America's nuclear arsenal. A groundbreaking account of accidents, near misses, extraordinary heroism, and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the dilemma that has existed since the dawn of the nuclear age: How do you deploy weapons of mass destruction without being destroyed by them? That question has never been resolved - and Schlosser reveals how the combination of human fallibility and technological complexity still poses a grave risk to mankind.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A miracle that we escaped the Cold War alive....
- De A reader en 02-16-14
De: Eric Schlosser
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In the Waves
- My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine
- De: Rachel Lance
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 9 h y 59 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 70
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 70
On the night of February 17, 1864, the tiny Confederate submarine HL Hunley made its way toward the USS Housatonic just outside Charleston harbor. Within a matter of hours, the Union ship’s stern was blown open in a spray of wood planks. The explosion sank the ship, killing many of its crew. And the submarine, the first ever to be successful in combat, disappeared without a trace. For 131 years the eight-man crew of the HL Hunley lay in their watery graves, undiscovered.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A wonderful scientific dive!
- De Stephen en 05-01-20
De: Rachel Lance
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The Age of Radiance
- The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
- De: Craig Nelson
- Narrado por: George Newbern
- Duración: 14 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
From the New York Times best-selling author of Rocket Men and the award-winning biographer of Thomas Paine comes the first complete history of the Atomic Age, a brilliant, magisterial account of the men and women who uncovered the secrets of the nucleus, brought its power to America, and ignited the 20th century.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Strong finish
- De David's Opinions and Reviews en 05-04-14
De: Craig Nelson
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Ignition!
- An Informal History of Liquid Rocket Propellants
- De: John Drury Clark, Isaac Asimov - foreward
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 9 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 675
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 552
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 549
Ignition! is the story of the search for a rocket propellant which could be trusted to take man into space. This search was a hazardous enterprise carried out by rival labs who worked against the known laws of nature, with no guarantee of success or safety. John Drury Clark writes with irreverent and eyewitness immediacy about the development of the explosive fuels strong enough to negate the relentless restraints of gravity. The resulting volume is as much a memoir as a work of history, sharing a behind-the-scenes view of an enterprise that eventually took men to the moon.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Science man lists names of chemicals for 9 hours
- De Adrian en 05-06-19
De: John Drury Clark, y otros
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Toxic
- A History of Nerve Agents, from Nazi Germany to Putin's Russia
- De: Dan Kaszeta
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 57
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 57
Nerve agents are the world's deadliest means of chemical warfare. Nazi Germany developed the first military-grade nerve agents and massive industry for their manufacture. At the end of the Second World War, the Allies were stunned to discover this advanced and extensive program. The Soviets and Western powers embarked on a new arms race, amassing huge chemical arsenals. From their Nazi invention to the 2018 Novichok attack in Britain, Dan Kaszeta uncovers nerve agents' gradual spread across the world, despite international arms control efforts.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Solid primer on nerve agent history and technology
- De Jim Nasium en 01-16-22
De: Dan Kaszeta
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The Radioactive Boy Scout
- The Frightening True Story of a Whiz Kid and His Homemade Nuclear Reactor
- De: Ken Silverstein
- Narrado por: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Duración: 6 h y 45 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 48
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 45
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 US 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.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting story
- De Kevin Gunter en 07-16-19
De: Ken Silverstein
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End Times
- A Brief Guide to the End of the World
- De: Bryan Walsh
- Narrado por: Bryan Walsh, Corey Carthew
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 65
End Times is a compelling work of skilled reportage that peels back the layers of complexity around the unthinkable - and inevitable - end of humankind. From asteroids and artificial intelligence to volcanic supereruption to nuclear war, veteran science reporter and TIME editor Bryan Walsh provides a stunning panoramic view of the most catastrophic threats to the human race.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Important topic ruined by needless political blather
- De J. Gordon en 08-29-19
De: Bryan Walsh
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Apollo
- De: Charles Murray, Catherine Bly Cox
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 18 h y 15 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 1,642
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,461
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,461
Apollo is the behind-the-scenes story of an epic achievement. Based on exhaustive research that included many exclusive interviews, Apollo tells how America went from a standing start to a landing on the moon at a speed that now seems impossible. It describes the unprecedented engineering challenges that had to be overcome to create the mammoth Saturn V and the facilities to launch it. It takes you into the tragedy of the fire on Apollo 1, the first descent to the lunar surface, and the rescue of Apollo 13.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book ever for space, ops, and engineering fans
- De JDM en 10-29-19
De: Charles Murray, y otros
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Energy
- A Human History
- De: Richard Rhodes
- Narrado por: Jacques Roy
- Duración: 11 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 774
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 660
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 659
Through an unforgettable cast of characters, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes explains how wood gave way to coal and coal made room for oil, as we now turn to natural gas, nuclear power, and renewable energy. Rhodes looks back on five centuries of progress, through such influential figures as Queen Elizabeth I, King James I, Benjamin Franklin, Herman Melville, John D. Rockefeller, and Henry Ford.
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4 out of 5 stars
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No more accents, please!
- De Ned Gulley en 08-30-18
De: Richard Rhodes
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The Apollo 1 Disaster
- The Controversial History and Legacy of the Fire that Caused One of NASA's Greatest Tragedies
- De: Charles River Editors
- Narrado por: Bob Barton
- Duración: 1 h y 40 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 30
The Apollo space program is the most famous and celebrated in American history, but the first successful landing of men on the moon, during Apollo 11, had complicated roots dating back over a decade; it also involved one of NASA's most infamous tragedies. Landing on the moon presented an ideal goal all on its own, but the government's urgency in designing the Apollo program was actually brought about by the Soviet Union, which spent much of the 1950s leaving the United States in its dust (and rocket fuel).
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4 out of 5 stars
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Detailed
- De Scott Windjack en 12-09-15
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb
- 25th Anniversary Edition
- De: Richard Rhodes
- Narrado por: Holter Graham
- Duración: 37 h y 16 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 4,094
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 3,652
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 3,630
Here for the first time, in rich human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb was developed, from the turn-of-the-century discovery of the vast energy locked inside the atom to the dropping of the first bombs on Japan. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly - or have been so misunderstood. From the theoretical discussions of nuclear energy to the bright glare of Trinity, there was a span of hardly more than 25 years.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Beware limitations of the reader
- De JFanson en 01-01-19
De: Richard Rhodes
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Chernobyl
- The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
- De: Serhii Plokhy
- Narrado por: Ralph Lister
- Duración: 14 h y 52 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,976
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,760
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,754
On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of radiation poisoning, fallout contaminated half the continent, and thousands fell ill. In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy draws on new sources to tell the dramatic stories of the firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who heroically extinguished the nuclear inferno. He lays bare the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Companions to Each Other
- De Tim en 06-04-19
De: Serhii Plokhy
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Meltdown
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Total5 out of 5 stars
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- Vince
- 08-05-21
No matter how many nuke accident book you've read
I have listened to and/or read multiple titles on nuclear accidents, and this book absolutely ranks up there at the top. This title has new (to me) details on the so very numerous experiments of the 1940s and 50s, which are always the most fascinating part of nuclear history to me, Of course it has the stories of Chernobyl, TMI, and 'Shima. Loads and laods of detail on Kysthym, Windscale, and SL-1. The two chapters dedicated specifically to Cecil Kelly and Hisashi Ouchi were new to me and were just fascinating and heartbreaking at the same time. No matter how many nuclear accident book you have read, this one will teach you things,
Also, a full on ovation tot he narrator. His prose, timbre, rhythm, and speed are absolutely perfect the entire way through, And as an American, I must say the gentle British accent is very pleasing to the ears.
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- Tish
- 09-30-21
Decent research, aggravating fear-mongering tone
I am fairly certain we are all aware that radiation can be dangerous. I do not need to be reminded of this every few seconds. I want to know the details. I want the science. I want the human factors explanations. These are here - the research is solid - but good lord, the preaching.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-10-22
A less well written version of another book
Honestly just check out Atomic Accidents by James Mahaffey. Not only does he quote Dr. Mahaffey repeatedly, but Atomic Accidents cover the subject matter substantially better
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