Autore	Adams Melvin R. <1941->
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Pullman, Washington : , : Washington State University Press, , [2016]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (xiii, 140 pages) : : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ;
Disciplina	623.4/5119 B
Soggetto topico	Radioactive waste sites - Cleanup Radioactive pollution Nuclear weapons plants - Waste disposal - Environmental aspects Industrial safety Hazardous waste site remediation Groundwater - Pollution Environmental engineers Ecology Radioactive waste sites - Cleanup - Washington (State) - Hanford Site Radioactive pollution - Washington (State) - Hanford Site Groundwater - Pollution - Washington (State) - Hanford Site Hazardous waste site remediation - Washington (State) - Hanford Site Nuclear weapons plants - Waste disposal - Environmental aspects - Washington (State) - Hanford Site Environmental engineers - United States
Soggetto genere / forma	History Biographies. Electronic books.
ISBN	1-63682-042-5 0-87422-341-5
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	What is Hanford? -- What is Hanford : a unique geography -- What is Hanford : a historical timeline -- An obscure, strange and fascinating place -- The paradoxes of Hanford -- Hanford : the personal challenge -- Hanford : the physical anomalies -- The atomic pond -- The PUREX railroad tunnels -- Z-9 Crib, poisoning plutonium and crawler robots -- Burial grounds -- Hanford : the cultural progression -- First fishing, then farming, then Hanford -- From plutonium to cleanup -- The street names of Richland -- The atomic man -- F house -- How a Japanese balloon shut Hanford down -- Hanford : the engineering challenge -- The nuclear priesthood and archaeological analogs -- The weeds -- Natural analogs : designing a water retaining barrier -- Thousands of wells -- Tumbleweeds -- Bird in a tank and data overload -- Pumping carbon tetrachloride -- The Beverly Railroad Bridge -- Glowing in the dark -- Tank waste controversy -- Hanford : the national park -- Elk and wild horses -- Rare plants/ new plants -- The Hanford Reach -- B reactor -- Hanford as a redemptive quest -- Hanford : the poetic response -- Glossary.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910862083003321

Autore	Siracusa Joseph M.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2008
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (161 pages)
Disciplina	355.825119 623.4/5119
Collana	Very short introductions
Soggetto topico	Nuclear weapons Nuclear weapons - History Nuclear arms control
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-281-34124-X 9786611341244 0-19-152801-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	1 What are nuclear weapons?; 2 Building the bomb; 3 'A choice between the quick and the dead'; 4 Race for the H-bomb; 5 Nuclear deterrence and arms control; 6 Star Wars; 7 Nuclear weapons in the age of terrorism; References and further reading; Index;
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910454383003321