NASA's Nuclear Frontier: The Plum Brook Reactor Facility, 1941-2002

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Government Printing Office, 2004 - History - 197 pages

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Presents a visual history of the Plum Brook reactor, including numerous images and captions, a narrative history, and selected primary documents.  This work culminated in the atomic bomb.  After the war, as Plum Brook's ordnance factories went silent, scientists continued their pursuit of nuclear knowledge by constructing test reactors. Timeline included within the Appendices section.   Military personnel, especially strategists, leaders and soldiers may be most interested in this volume,  students pursuing research about the Plum Brook facility and the land used to house the military's explosives and gun powder.

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Selected pages

Contents

Obtaining the Land
9
The Dream of a Flying Reactor
23
Constructing the Reactor
47
Kennedys New Dream
65
The Plum Brook Reactor Opens Its Doors
97
Plum Brook Station Test Facilities
117
Returning the Land
143
Endnotes
157
About the Authors
185
Copyright

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Mark D. Bowles,Robert S. Arrighi
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Bibliographic information

TitleNASA's Nuclear Frontier: The Plum Brook Reactor Facility, 1941-2002
AuthorsMark D. Bowles, Robert S. Arrighi
PublisherGovernment Printing Office, 2004
ISBN0160731550, 9780160731556
Length197 pages
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