Melting Sun: The History of Nuclear Power in Japan and the Disaster at Fukushima Daiichi, Hardcover - Andrew Leatherbarrow

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Publisher: Tuttle PublishingAuthor(s): Jonathan ClementsIllustration(s): over 75 color and b&w photographs and mapsNumber of pages: 320Publication ...

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Leading analysts have predicted for decades that nuclear weapons would help pacify international politics. The core notion is that countries protec...

Examines approaches for establishing the overall instrumentation and control (I&C) architecture of a nuclear power plant. The book describes the ch...

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