Supplying the Nuclear Arsenal: American Production Reactors, 1942-1992

by Rodney P. Carlisle

Book Overview

Originally published in 1996. Although the history of commercial-power nuclear reactors is well known, the story of the government reactors that produce weapons-grade plutonium and tritium has been shrouded in secrecy. Supplying the Nuclear Arsenal looks at the origin and development of these production reactors, Rodney Carlisle and Joan Zenzen describe a fifty-year government effort no less complex, expensive, and technologically demanding...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 142143590X
• ISBN13: 9781421435909
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher