Half-Lives: The Canadian Guide to Nuclear Technology in Canada

By Hans Tammemagi and David Jackson

In the face of climate change and oil shortages, nuclear technology offers many important possibilities. Half-Lives evaluates the promise of nuclear technology as a source of clean energy, as well as the wide range of applications in medicine and industry it offers in a uniquely Canadian
context.

Half-Lives explains the fundamentals of nuclear reactions and radioactivity with deftly crafted prose that precludes the need for a deep background in mathematics or science. The uses of nuclear technology in Canada are explored in clear, accessible language, from uranium mining to
electricity-producing nuclear power reactors (including the Canadian-designed CANDU reactor), to nuclear medicine and industrial applications.

First published in 2002, Half-Lives remains the only book to consider nuclear technology from a Canadian perspective; this new edition updates the issues in light of industry developments, politics, and environmental crisis.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195431529
• ISBN13: 9780195431520
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Canada
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"