Nuclear

By Vladimir Polushkin

ISBN-10: 0470857595

ISBN-13: 9780470857595

ISBN-10: 0470857684

ISBN-13: 9780470857687

With the commercialisation of superconducting debris and radiation detectors set to happen within the very close to destiny, nuclear analytical instrumentation is taking a major breakthrough. those new detectors have a excessive measure of accuracy, balance and velocity and are compatible for high-density multiplex integration in nuclear examine laboratories and astrophysics. moreover, superconducting detectors can be effectively utilized to nutrition security, airport safety platforms, clinical examinations, doping exams & forensic investigations.
This e-book is the 1st to deal with a brand new new release of analytical instruments in accordance with new superconductor detectors demonstrating extraordinary functionality unsurpassed by way of the other traditional units. offering the newest examine and improvement in nanometer applied sciences and biochemistry this book:
* Discusses the improvement of nuclear sensing techniques.
* presents assistance at the layout and use of the subsequent iteration of detectors.
* Describes cryogenic detectors for nuclear measurements and spectrometry.
* Covers fundamental detectors, front-end readout electronics and electronic sign processing.
* offers purposes in nanotechnology and glossy biochemistry together with DNA sequencing, proteinomics, microorganisms.
* gains examples of 2 functions in X-ray electron probe nanoanalysis and time-of-flight mass spectrometry.
This entire therapy is the fitting reference for researchers, business engineers and graduate scholars focused on the advance of excessive precision nuclear measurements, nuclear analytical instrumentation and complicated superconductor fundamental sensors. This publication also will attract physicists, electric and digital engineers within the nuclear undefined.

By Ziya Akcasu

ISBN-10: 0120471507

ISBN-13: 9780120471508

By Eric Schlosser

ISBN-10: 1594202273

ISBN-13: 9781594202278

New York instances publication Review
“Disquieting yet riveting… fascinating… Schlosser’s readers (and he merits a very good many) may be struck by means of how often the folk he cites characteristic the absence of unintended explosions and nuclear battle to divine intervention or sheer good fortune instead of to human knowledge and talent. no matter what was once liable, we are going to basically desire many extra of it within the years to come.”

Famed investigative journalist Eric Schlosser digs deep to discover secrets and techniques in regards to the administration of America’s nuclear arsenal. A ground-breaking account of injuries, near-misses, impressive heroism, and technological breakthroughs, Command and Control explores the issue that has existed because the sunrise of the nuclear age:  how do you set up guns of mass destruction with out being destroyed by means of them?  that query hasn't ever been resolved--and Schlosser finds how the combo of human fallibility and technological complexity nonetheless poses a grave probability to mankind.  

Written with the vibrancy of a chief mystery, Command and Control interweaves the minute-by-minute tale of an twist of fate at a nuclear missile silo in rural Arkansas with a ancient narrative that spans greater than fifty years.  It depicts the pressing attempt via American scientists, policymakers, and army officials to make sure that nuclear guns can’t be stolen, sabotaged, used with no permission, or detonated inadvertently. Schlosser additionally appears to be like on the chilly conflict from a brand new viewpoint, supplying heritage from the floor up, telling the tales of bomber pilots, missile commanders, upkeep crews, and different usual servicemen who risked their lives to evade a nuclear holocaust.  on the center of the booklet lies the fight, amid the rolling hills and small farms of Damascus, Arkansas, to avoid the explosion of a ballistic missile wearing the main strong nuclear warhead ever outfitted by way of the United States.   

Drawing on lately declassified records and interviews with males who designed and many times handled  nuclear guns, Command and regulate takes readers right into a terrifying yet interesting global that, beforehand, has been mostly hidden from view.  in the course of the info of a unmarried twist of fate, Schlosser illustrates how an not likely occasion can turn into unavoidable, how small dangers could have poor outcomes, and the way the main exceptional minds within the state can purely supply us with an phantasm of control.  Audacious, gripping, and unforgettable, Command and keep an eye on is a travel de strength of investigative journalism, an eye-opening examine the risks of America’s nuclear age.

Kirkus (STARRED REVIEW)
"A chilling, concise heritage of America’s precarious nuclear arsenal... vibrant and unsettling."

By Richard T., Jr. Lahey, F. J. Moody

ISBN-10: 0894480375

ISBN-13: 9780894480379

By H. Schopper (eds.)

ISBN-10: 3662488736

ISBN-13: 9783662488737

ISBN-10: 3662488752

ISBN-13: 9783662488751

The current quantity I/25G is offering new information (excitation energies, spin-parities, half-lifes, branching ratios, cross-sections, spectroscopic elements, etc.) for nuclei with atomic numbers Z starting from 1 (H) to fifty three (I) released in 2012-2013, therefore updating past compilations supplied within the Landolt-Börnstein volumes I/25A-F.

The info provided are accrued from all types of nuclear reactions, together with information for nuclei faraway from the steadiness line. because the time of choice of info for the volumes I/25A-F many new facts seemed from new measurements and evaluations.

The homes of excited nuclear states are of value for medical and functional purposes. No systematic compilation of such information has been played up to now. the current compilation has been ready through eminent specialists within the box. one of many features of Landolt-Börnstein is that information are evaluated sooner than they're accredited for compilation. the assumption is to give ‘best values’ which might be used with self belief by way of non-experts.

By B. L. Holman (auth.), B. Leonard Holman M.D., Herbert L. Abrams M.D., Eberhard Zeitler (eds.)

ISBN-10: 3540098038

ISBN-13: 9783540098034

ISBN-10: 3642675107

ISBN-13: 9783642675102