On Nuclear Energy

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Excerpt from On Nuclear Energy: Its Potential for Peacetime UsesThis volume is a direct outgrowth of many lectures that I have given on peacetime nuclear energy since the subject first became front-page news in 1945. In the dozen years that have now elapsed, the intense public interest has continued unabated, and rightly so. The wartime development was paid for completely by public funds, as has been most of the postwar program, hence the citizens in actuality own-most of the nuclear energy business in the United States - a two-billion-dollar-a-year business.In giving lectures to a wide variety of lay groups, I have always been impressed with the real eagerness of the listeners to learn something of nuclear energy, and their willingness to put in a few hours of concentrated effort in the process. The desire was not so much to be told astounding predictions of the future as to learn the solid facts of atomic structure, fission, the chain reaction, and the many applications of nuclear energy that are possible right now. Further, it was always gratifying that the listeners, with no technical training but with a keen desire to learn, could gain a real understanding of the basic principles in a short time.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.