Nuclear physics Books
Nova Science Publishers Inc Nuclear Time Travel and The Alien Mind
Book SynopsisSome of the unfunded opportunities (UFOs), like the TR3B or TR6, are already flying; with this in mind, it may appear that this book is published too late. However, this is not the case. Both extraterrestrials and humans have developed craft of similar a planform. Officials and the media continuously feed the masses incorrect information. Drive technology of the honestly endeavoring human is outdated. It seems to have been copied from some ancient Indian scriptures. Indeed, electrostatic, electromagnetic and rotating plasma drives deliver fermionic power, but they are far from allowing humanity to harness the power of a hyperspace jump. In 2017, NASA ensured us that for the near future, [a] warp drive remains a dream. As a matter of fact, both human and extraterrestrial humanoids have hypothesized the use anti-gravity, warping and time travelling vehicles, even what they call living vessels. However, both have no theory, no theoretical foundations for nuclear time travel technology. This book delivers a few necessary basics concerning the possible future where this nuclear time travel could potentially become a reality.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Radionuclides: Properties, Behavior and Potential
Book SynopsisOur world has been radioactive ever since! Humans are primarily exposed to natural radiation from the Sun, cosmic rays, and naturally-occurring radionuclides found in the Earth's crust. Besides the natural radioactivity, industries, which produce radioactive wastes during their normal operations or during their dismantling and decommissioning processes, do contaminate the environment through the release of radionuclides into the air, soil and water. Among them, nuclear power plants, NORM (Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials) related industries, hospitals, radionuclide production facilities, uranium mining and other nuclear facilities, along with radioactive/nuclear disposal sites are a potential source of environmental contamination by emission/discharging of natural/artificial radionuclides through water, air and soil to the other environmental compartments like plants, animals and foods. In a word, everything that makes our existence! The book ''Radionuclides: Properties, Behavior and Potential Health Effects" is a comprehensive overview of some information on radiation in the environment and human exposure to radioactivity. This book highlights the sources, properties, behaviors, and biological and ecological effects of radioactivity from both natural and anthropogenic sources. The emphasis is on the environmental aspects of radionuclides and their eventual effects on biota, particularly humans.Table of ContentsPreface; Gamma Dose Rate in Air Due to Natural and Anthropogenic Radionuclides in Soil; A Review of the Behavior of Different Radionuclides in Sludge from Water Treatment Plants and Their Radiological Implications; Radioactivity of Rocks in Several Regions of East Georgia; Radioactivity of Water in Vojvodina and Possible Health Effects; 210Pb, 137Cs and 7Be as Tracers for Sediment Deposition in an Embayment of Three Gorges Reservoir, China; Activity Concentrations of 226Ra, 232Th and 40K in Building Materials in Serbia: Radon Exhalation Rate and Assessment of Radiological Impact; Radionuclides 90Sr and 3H: Properties, Behavior, Distribution and Analysis of Influence to Content in Precipitation; Radiological and Environmental Aspects of 210Pb in Water: Improvements in the Detection Efficiency during Cherenkov Counting; Properties, Behavior and Potential Health Effects of 14C; Human Bio-Monitoring and Bio-Indicators for Health Risk Management Associated to Chronic Exposures in High Radon Concentration Environments: A Review; Indoor Radon and Thoron Study and Assessment of Geogenic Radon Potential; Radionuclides in Nuclear Medicine; Nuclear Medicine: Therapeutic Potential of Radionuclides; Index.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Deuterium: Properties and Applications
Book SynopsisThis monograph comprises three chapters, each concerning a different aspect of deuterium. Chapter One discusses in detail the factors governing whether deuteration strategies will give rise to a deuterium KIE (kinetic isotope effect), which has many beneficial effects including increased drug resistance to metabolism, which is particularly important in radiopharmaceutical sciences. Chapter Two describes the properties of Deuterium Oxide (D2O), an isotopic form of water which contains two atoms of deuterium and one atom of oxygen, specifically its characteristic shielding action against external stress agents. Chapter Three presents the T-c-state diagram of the Pd-D system and proposes the crystal structure of ß- and ų- phases.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Gamma Irradiation: Properties, Effects and
Book SynopsisGamma radiation is a penetrating form of electromagnetic radiation arising from the radioactive decay of atomic nuclei. This type of radiation imparts the highest photon energy, and while it can damage the human body, it also provides several practical applications. Chapter One describes the application of gamma radiation for the sterilization process in medical devices, the food industry, and nuclear power plants, as well as its behavior, properties, and other applications. Chapter Two deals with the effects induced by gamma radiation, new research focused on the changes caused by gamma radiation, and the contributions of dosimetry to the understanding of gamma radiation. Chapter Three describes the use of radiation for inducing mutations in modern plant breeding. Chapter Four analyzes the effects of gamma irradiation on different carbon-based nanomaterials. Lastly, Chapter Five addresses the importance of using polylactic acid and gamma radiation for producing novel polymer composites, which enhance their sustainability and environmental aspects.Table of ContentsPreface; Gamma Irradiation: Properties, Behavior and Applications; Effects of Gamma Radiation on Matter: Dosimetry Challenges; Plant Mutation Breeding for Crop Improvement; Gamma Rays in Carbon-Based Nanomaterials Modification; Polylactic Acid and Gamma Rays for Developing Novel Polymer Composites; Index.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Physics & Chemistry of Fission
Book SynopsisContents: Fission Fragment Distributions: Experiment and Theory -- Fission Barriers, Fission Channels, Fission Valleys; Fragment Charge Distributions in Low Energy Fission; Double-Energy, Double-Velocity Measurement of Fission Fragments from Thermal Neutron Induced Fission; Odd-Even Neutron and Proton Effects in Low Energy Nuclear Fission; Energy Balance in MeV Neutron Induced Fission; Formation of the Fragment Mass and Energy Distributions in Fission of Nuclei Lighter than Radium; A New Approach to Determine Elemental Yield, Charge Polarisation and Odd-even Effects in Fission; Fundamental Fission Problems -- Dissipation and Friction in Nuclear Fission; Influence of Diabaticity on Fission Fragment Mass Asymmetry; Space Parity Violation in Nuclear Fission.
£173.59
Nova Science Publishers Inc Standard Model & Beyond: Proceedings of the XIII
Book SynopsisStandard Model & Beyond Proceedings Of The Xiii International School Of Theoretical Physics - Szczyrk, September 19-26 1989, University Of Silesia, Katowice
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Relativistic Nuclear Physics in the Light Front
Book SynopsisRelativistic Nuclear Physics In The Light Front Formalism
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Physics of Ionized Gases
Book SynopsisPhysics of Ionized Gases
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Quantum Mass Theory Compatible with Quantum Field
Book SynopsisQuantum Mass Theory Compatible With Quantum Field Theory
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Isospin Physics in Heavy-Ion Collisions At
Book SynopsisIsospin Physics in Heavy-Ion Collisions At Intermediate Energies
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Nova Science Publishers Inc New Developments in Nuclear Fusion Research
Book SynopsisNuclear fusion is a process in which two nuclei join, forming a larger nucleus and releasing or absorbing energy. With some exceptions, nuclei lighter than iron release energy when they fuse, while heavier nuclei absorb energy; this is because iron has the largest binding energy. Nuclear fusion of light elements is the energy source which causes stars to shine and hydrogen bombs to explode. Nuclear fusion of heavy elements is part of the process that triggers supernovae. Nuclear fusion as an energy source has several advantages: It is vast, new source of energy; Fuels are plentiful; Inherently safe since any malfunction results in a rapid shutdown; No atmospheric pollution leading to acid rain or "greenhouse" effect; Radioactivity of the reactor structure, caused by the neutrons, decays rapidly and can be minimised by careful selection of low-activation materials. Provision for geological time-span disposal is not needed. This book brings together leading research in this field which will play a major role in the 21st century.
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Universal Publishers Langmuir Probe in Theory and Practice
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Radiation Physics Research Progress
Book SynopsisThis new book focuses on the latest research from around the globe on: fundamental processes in radiation physics; radiation sources and detectors and applications of radiation physics in fundamental research.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc CR-39 Plastic Nuclear Track Detectors in Physics
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Experiment Most Wanted Particle: The Inside Story of the
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Experiment Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange (and
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Experiment Atom Land: A Guided Tour Through the Strange (and
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Experiment Too Big for a Single Mind: How the Greatest
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Prometheus Books Judging Edward Teller
Book SynopsisMany people know Edward Teller as the "Father of the H-Bomb." To his supporters he was a hero of the Cold War. To his detractors he was evil personified. Between these extremes was the life of the real man. In this definitive and comprehensive biography, a personal acquaintance of Teller's presents a balanced portrait of the multifaceted and enigmatic scientist against the backdrop of a turbulent period of history. Taking pains to avoid bias and preconceptions, thr author critically examines Teller's personality, family background, and the experiences that guided his actions-correcting many of the myths that others and Teller himself promulgated. Drawing for the first time on hitherto unknown archival material from Hungarian, American, and German sources, the author provides fresh insights that help the reader to understand Teller's motivations, his relationships with friends and foes, and his driven personality. In addition to this research and his own memories of Teller, Hargittai has interviewed such prominent figures as Richard Garwin, Freeman Dyson, George A. Keyworth, and Wendy Teller (Edward Teller's daughter), among others. The author reviews the significant facets of Teller's life: his Jewish-Hungarian origins, forced emigrations, brilliance in science, and devotion to the defense of the United States. He discusses Teller's ruthless Machiavellism in achieving his goals, which included his pivotal role in the creation of the hydrogen bomb and the second weapons laboratory at Livermore, as well as his damaging testimony against physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer. Teller's peers viewed this testimony as a betrayal and, in effect, sent him into internal exile, which Hargittai describes as more tormenting to him than his previous emigrations. The author notes that Teller was sometimes called "a monomaniac with many manias," such as his fierce opposition to nuclear test bans during the Cold War and, toward the end of his life, his role as propagandist for the Strategic Defense Initiative. Yet, his very excesses may have in fact contributed to the demise of the Soviet Union. Who was Edward Teller-the real "Dr. Strangelove," the driven crusader for the H-Bomb, the villain who destroyed Oppenheimer, or the devoted husband, loyal friend, patriot, and strongly idealistic scientist? This monumental work will reveal the contradictory nature of this complex man in all his strengths, flaws, and brilliance.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Universe Evolution: Astrophysical & Nuclear
Book SynopsisThis book is a natural follow-up and extension of the recent publication "The Big Bang: Theory, Assumptions & Problems", (Eds: O''Connell and Hale, 2012, Nova Publications). The authors of the present work deliver an account of current research on the subject of the astrophysical and nuclear physics aspects of the evolution of the universe. They present a general overview of both the theoretical and experimental knowledge of nuclear physics and astrophysics necessary for the understanding of stellar structure and evolution of stars and galaxies. This account is followed by a discussion of different types of reaction mechanism (transfer, capture and photonuclear) that is further illustrated by appropriate examples. Two- and three-body approaches are among the topics that are addressed and discussed here. The book contains a comprehensive overview of neutron star gamma ray bursts and of pulsar-wind nebulae. The final chapter is devoted to an account of the contributions of the scientific polymath George Gamow to physical cosmology and astrophysics, much of which was based on the foundational work of the pioneers of the physics of stellar structure and evolution, Arthur Eddington, Ralph Fowler, and Subramanian Chandrasekhar.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Remediation of Lands After the Fukushima Daiichi
Book SynopsisThe Fukushima Nuclear Power Station Accident in March 2011 significantly impacted Japan and the Japanese People, contaminating large areas of Fukushima Prefecture with radiation. Japan''s nuclear incident has engendered much public and congressional concern about the possible impact of radiation on the Japanese public, as well as possible fallout on U.S. citizens. This book provides observation and commentary on remediation of the lands off-site from the Fukushima Daiichi reactors, and information on technical aspects of the nuclear incident, with reference to human health.
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NY Research Press Introductory Nuclear Physics
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NY Research Press Nuclear Physics: Applied Principles
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Prometheus Books True Genius: The Life and Work of Richard Garwin,
Book SynopsisRichard Garwin was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama Called a "true genius" by Enrico Fermi, Richard Garwin has influenced modern life in far-reaching ways, yet he is hardly known outside the physics community. This is the first biography of one of America's great minds--a top physicist, a brilliant technological innovator, and a trusted advisor of presidents for sixty years. Among his many contributions to modern technology are innovations we now take for granted: air-traffic control systems, touch screens, color monitors, laser printers, GPS satellite navigation, and many other facets of everyday contemporary life. But certainly his most important work has been on behalf of nuclear disarmament. As a key member of the Los Alamos team that developed the hydrogen bomb (he created the final design), Garwin subsequently devoted much of his career to ensuring that nuclear weapons never again be used. He has spent hundreds of hours testifying before Congress, serving on government advisory committees, and doing work that is still classified, all the while working for IBM as a researcher. A genuine polymath, his ideas extend from propulsion systems for interplanetary flight to preventing flu epidemics. Never shy about offering his opinions, even to rigid government bureaucracies unwilling to change, Garwin continues to show leaders how to do the smart thing. The world is a more interesting and safer place because of his many accomplishments.
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Prometheus Books Sam Goudsmit and the Hunt for Hitler's Atom Bomb
Book SynopsisThe first biography in English of a leading Dutch American physicist, who discovered the subatomic property of "spin" and spearheaded the search for Hitler's atom bomb as World War II came to an end. This engaging biography of an important Dutch physicist brings to light his significant scientific contributions and remarkable life story. Based on recently released archives and material from Goudsmit's daughter Esther, science journalist Martijn van Calmthout has reconstructed a life marked by both brilliance and tragedy. As a young man Sam Goudsmit came to international attention when he and a colleague published a seminal paper that introduced the property of electron spin into atomic theory. This discovery helped to remove remaining questions about atomic theory and brought him into contact with the likes of Einstein, Heisenberg, and other leading physicists of the early 20th century. In 1927, he was offered a position at the University of Michigan and moved with his wife to the United States. When the Nazis invaded the Netherlands, Goudsmit, a Jew, feared for the lives of his parents and other family members still in Holland. His attempts to get his German colleague Werner Heisenberg to intervene on their behalf proved fruitless. Toward the end of World War II, he was recruited by the Department of Defense as the scientific leader of the co-called Alsos mission, whose task was to search for evidence of German atom-bomb development. The team eventually found stores of uranium ore and a nuclear reactor, among other evidence. While in Europe, Goudsmit had an opportunity to return to The Hague, his hometown. There in the rubble of his parent's house, he discovered that they had been deported to Auschwitz. After the war, he returned to the United States and became the editor of Physical Review and Physical Review Letters; the latter is a leading physics journal to this day. But guilt over his failure to save his parents haunted him for the rest of his life. This is a biography that in part reads like a thriller and restores long-overdue recognition to an important 20th-century physicist.
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Trine Day Critical Mass: How Nazi Germany Surrendered
Book SynopsisOn May 19, 1945, eleven days after the surrender of Nazi Germany in Europe, a U-boat was escorted into Portsmouth Naval Yard, New Hampshire. News reporters covering the surrender of U-234 were ordered, contrary to all previous and later U-boat surrender procedures, to keep their distance from crew members and passengers of U-234, on threat of being shot by the attending Marine guards. Why the tight security? Buried in the nose of the specially-built mammoth boat, sealed in cylinders “lined with gold,” was 1,120 pounds of enriched uranium labeled “U235”the fissile material from which atom bombs are made. Critical Mass documents how these Nazi bomb components were then used by the Manhattan Project to complete both the uranium bomb dropped on Hiroshima and the plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki, to defeat the Japanese and win World War Two and global domination in the modern age.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Uranium: Sources, Exposure & Environmental
Book SynopsisUranium is a naturally occurring, ubiquitous heavy metal. In various chemical forms, natural uranium is found in all soils, rocks, seas and oceans. It is also present in drinking water and food. Uranium was discovered in 1781 by Klaprot, a pharmacist in Berlin, in the Joachisthal silver mines. This book starts with a short history of uranium. It continues with the legacy of uranium mining and the authors go on to discuss the environmental and health effects of depleted uranium, which has the unique potential to threaten all natural resources, including human society because of its radiotoxic effects. Uranium migration properties are explored through the geological structures and the groundwater systems based on the determination of its total concentration essential for environmental studies. Other chapters examine the recovery of uranium from phosphate rock; the influence of uranium on the environment and the studies of content of uranium in soil, building materials, drinking water and even in the urine of specific population such as in the Czech Republic, a uranium rich territory; the types of uranium deposits; uranium bioremediation as an eco-friendly, promising approach, which will play an irreplaceable role in global nuclear energy development; discussions on uranium as one of the most widespread contaminants in groundwater in mining areas, as well as in surface waters in Brazil; and an examination of fuel materials that have been developed for use in nuclear power reactors including uranium. Bulk uranium-based systems are very complex and it is difficult to draw unambiguous conclusion on their properties and reaction mechanisms from experiments. Therefore in this book, laboratory experiments using simple model systems - thin films, for single effect studies which have a ground-breaking nature are explored in detail in this book.
£195.19
Carus Books Earth is a Nuclear Planet
Book SynopsisEarth Is a Nuclear Planet is a book on nuclear energy unlike any other. It makes the reader feel like a genius by clearly explaining all the relevant basic science in a fun and entertaining way.Faced by the looming catastrophe of devastating climate change, more and more environmentalists and climate scientists are turning to nuclear power as the cleanest, safest, and ultimately least costly technology for generating the electricity we all need. But there are many myths and conceptions about nuclear energy, irresponsibly hyped by the sensational media, which require to be understood, debunked, and cleared away.Earth Is a Nuclear Planet goes through all these myths and misconceptions, carefully noting all the fallacies and misunderstandings which plague discussion of the energy options confronting humankind.Mike Conley and Tim Maloney, two superbly talented popular writers, have spent years questioning a select panel of leading scientists to arrive at a fr
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Carus Books The LNT Report
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Pegasus Books Going Nuclear
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Murphy & Moore Publishing Nuclear Physics: From Fundamentals to Frontiers
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£108.80
Callisto Reference Nuclear Power
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£106.72
Chicago Review Press The Uranium Club: Unearthing Lost Relics of the
Book SynopsisTim Koeth peered into the crumpled brown paper lunch bag; inside was a surprisingly heavy black metal cube. He recognized the mysterious object instantly—he had one just like it sitting on his desk at home. It was uranium metal, taken from the nuclear reactor that Nazi scientists had tried—and failed—to build at the end of World War II. This unexpected gift, wrapped in a piece of paper inscribed with a few cryptic but crucial lines, would launch Koeth, a nuclear physicist and professor, and his colleague Miriam Hiebert, a cultural heritage scientist, on an odyssey to trace the tale of these cubes—two of the original 664 on which the Third Reich had pinned their nuclear ambitions. Part treasure hunt, part historical narrative, The Uranium Club winds its way through the back doors of World War II and Manhattan Project histories to recount the contributions of the men and women at the forefront of the race for nuclear power. From Werner Heisenberg and Germany’s nuclear program to the Curies, the first family of nuclear physics, to the Allied Alsos Mission’s infiltration of Germany to capture Nazi science to the renegade geologists of Murray Hill scouring the globe for uranium, the cubes are lodestars that illuminate a little-known—and hugely consequential—chapter of history.The cubes are physical testimony to the stories of the German failure, and the successful American program that launched the world into the modern nuclear age, and the lessons for modern science that the contrast in these two programs has to offer. Table of Contents1. A Cube Appears 2. Introducing Element 92 3. A Brief History of Fission Part I: Taken from Germany 4. The Lawyer: John Lansdale Jr. 5. The Solider: Boris Pash 6. Alsos in Italy 7. The Scientist: Dr. Samuel Goudsmit 8. Alsos in England 9. The Hunt for FrÉdÉric Joliot-Curie 10. Paris 11. Belgium 12. Unoccupied France 13. Strasbourg 14. Heidelberg 15. Diebner’s Lab 16. Operation Big Part II: The Reactor Hitler Tried to Build 17. Modern Physics 18. Jewish Physics 19. The Uranium Club 20. How to Build a Nuclear Reactor 21. Early German Experiments 22. Copenhagen 23. 1942 24. War in the Service of Science 25. Building B-VIII 26. Farm Hall 27. The 400 28. Paperweights Part III: Gift of Ninninger 29. Finding Ninninger 30. The Race 31. Belgian Uranium 32. The CDT 33. Murray Hill 34. Making Metal 35. The Last Stop 36. The New Uranium Club Epilogue Index
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Morgan & Claypool Publishers The Electrostatic Accelerator: A versatile tool
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Morgan & Claypool Publishers Particle Physics
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Morgan & Claypool Publishers A Modern Introduction to Neutrino Physics
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Morgan & Claypool Publishers Optics: The science of light
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Morgan & Claypool Publishers Relativistic Quantum Field Theory, Volume 1:
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Morgan & Claypool Publishers Relativistic Quantum Field Theory, Volume 2: Path
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Morgan & Claypool Publishers Measuring Nothing, Repeatedly: Null experiments
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Morgan & Claypool Publishers Resonant Tunneling Diode Photonics: Devices and
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Morgan & Claypool Publishers Relativistic Quantum Field Theory, Volume 3:
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Clanrye International Ionizing Radiation: Radiobiology
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£114.42
Willford Press Nuclear Physics: Theory and Applications
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£103.95
IOP Publishing NUCLEAR POWER PAST PRESENT AND FUTURPB
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IOP Publishing MANHATTAN PROJECT VERY BRIEF INTRODUCPB
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Morgan & Claypool Publishers The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty
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Pegasus Books Atomic Adventures
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