Rodney P. Carlisle (May 1 - December 201 Joan M. Zenzen
Although the history of commercial-power nuclear reactors is well known, the story of the government reactors that produce weapons-grade plutonium and tritium has been shrouded in secrecy. In the first detailed look at the origin and development of these production reactors, Rodney Carlisle and Joan Zenzen describe a fifty-year government effort no less complex, expensive, and technologically demanding than the Polaris or Apollo programs-yet one about which most Americans know virtually nothing. Carlisle and Zenzen describe the evolution of the early reactors, the atomic weapons...
Although the history of commercial-power nuclear reactors is well known, the story of the government reactors that produce weapons-grade plutonium and...
