Energy and Resources 251, Fall 1997

On-Line Reading Materials


The Richard Rhodes article on food irradiation and e. coli.

Documentation

von Meier/Miller/Keller paper for 10/28/97     Download as a PDF file  plutonium.pdf

Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace Speech

The Einstein Letter to Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Nuclear Power, Energy and the Environment (from the Uranium Institute)

The Nuclear Fuel Cycle (a summary) (PDF format)

Uranium History, Part I

Uranium History, Part II

World List of Nuclear Power Plants (HTML)

World List of Nuclear Power Plants (PDF format)


Links to Other Materials, mostly historical

The Los Alamos Primer (LA-1)
This was the famous briefing given by Robert Server in April of 1943 to the newly arrived and assembled scientists at Los Alamos.

Photos of Nuclear Explosions
That's all there is. Not all of them, but a fair selection.

Enola Gay homepage (history, pictures) related to the development of the first atomic bomb.
Put together by the University of Maryland media center in conjunction with the opening of the Enola Gay exhibit at the Smithsonian.

Los Alamos National Laboratory 50th Anniversary History Homepage
Many interesting pictures, and quite a lot of historical narrative about the early days at the lab, from its origins until the Trinity explosion.

From the Center for Defense Information. Nuclear Weapons Database Links Page

The Nuclear Control Institute: Among other things, it has charts with inventories of separated plutonium.

The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) (Arjun Makhijani)

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has a bit of nuclear-related military and/or civilian stuff.

William Sutcliffe's paper on the hazards of plutonium (from LLNL) can be found at:
http://www.llnl.gov/csts/publications/sutcliffe/


From Alex Montgomery comes this useful stuff:


The "gadget." The world's first "atomic" bomb ready for testing.