Add to ORKGBetween 1942 and the late 1950s, atomic piles (nuclear chain-reactors) were industrialized, initially to generate plutonium for the first atomic weapons and later to serve as copious sources of neutrons, radioisotopes and electrical power. These facilities entrained a new breed of engineering specialist adept at designing, operating and maintaining them. From the beginning, large companies supplied the engineering labor for this new technology, and played an important role in defining the nature of their nuclear expertise. In the USA, the most influential company of the period was DuPont, which assumed responsibility for the first plutonium production reactors at Oak Ridge TN and Hanford WA between 1942-6, and of the postwar production faci...
Originally published in 1996. Although the history of commercial-power nuclear reactors is well know...
Atomic energy developed from 1940 as a subject shrouded in secrecy. Identified successively as a cru...
On September 28, 2001 a symposium was held at Argonne National Laboratory as part of the festivities...
Between 1942 and the late 1950s, atomic piles (nuclear chain-reactors) were industrialized, initiall...
During five wartime years and the following post-war decade, atomic energy was a subject shrouded in...
The nuclear engineer emerged as a new form of recognised technical professional between 1940 and the...
Communities of nuclear workers have evolved in distinctive contexts. During the Manhattan Project th...
This book focuses on the lineage of America`s production reactors, those three at Hanford and their ...
This book follows nuclear engineers, specialists in a field described by early administrators as a ‘...
The nuclear engineer emerged as a new form of recognised technical professional between 1940 and the...
The nuclear engineer emerged in distinct forms in the first three countries in which atomic energy w...
Canada, as one of the three Allied nations collaborating on atomic energy development during the Sec...
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and P...
From Nylon to the Bomb : Du Pont de Nemours, the American Stak, and Nuclear Development, 1930-1960. ...
In 1950 the US Government contracted the Du Pont Company to design, build, and operate the Savannah ...
Originally published in 1996. Although the history of commercial-power nuclear reactors is well know...
Atomic energy developed from 1940 as a subject shrouded in secrecy. Identified successively as a cru...
On September 28, 2001 a symposium was held at Argonne National Laboratory as part of the festivities...
Between 1942 and the late 1950s, atomic piles (nuclear chain-reactors) were industrialized, initiall...
During five wartime years and the following post-war decade, atomic energy was a subject shrouded in...
The nuclear engineer emerged as a new form of recognised technical professional between 1940 and the...
Communities of nuclear workers have evolved in distinctive contexts. During the Manhattan Project th...
This book focuses on the lineage of America`s production reactors, those three at Hanford and their ...
This book follows nuclear engineers, specialists in a field described by early administrators as a ‘...
The nuclear engineer emerged as a new form of recognised technical professional between 1940 and the...
The nuclear engineer emerged in distinct forms in the first three countries in which atomic energy w...
Canada, as one of the three Allied nations collaborating on atomic energy development during the Sec...
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and P...
From Nylon to the Bomb : Du Pont de Nemours, the American Stak, and Nuclear Development, 1930-1960. ...
In 1950 the US Government contracted the Du Pont Company to design, build, and operate the Savannah ...
Originally published in 1996. Although the history of commercial-power nuclear reactors is well know...
Atomic energy developed from 1940 as a subject shrouded in secrecy. Identified successively as a cru...
On September 28, 2001 a symposium was held at Argonne National Laboratory as part of the festivities...