2 new books

["Ted Rockwell" <tedrock@cpcug.org>]

Friends:



I expect some of you might be interested in two new books on early history

of nuclear technology development.  I have flyers on each of these, but

since this list does not accept attachments, I will just copy the text into

the message.  Since each of the flyers is two-sided, I won't try to put them

both into one msg.



First, I'll quote the news release about the two books and their

relationship.  Then I'll send the first flyer text, and then the other one.

I hope you'll find this is useful information, rather than crass

commercialism.



I am the author of both books.  Since my area of interest and responsibility

has always been radiation shielding and protection, and nuclear safety, I

think they are relevant to this list.  The news release follows: (and pls

forgive the PR speak; I hired a pro.)



THEODORE ROCKWELL’S THE RICKOVER EFFECT / CREATING THE NEW WORLD

TWO BOOKS THAT ARE More than the Sum of the Parts



 (WASHINGTON, DC) Ted Rockwell’s new book, CREATING THE NEW WORLD: Stories &

Images from the Dawn of the Atomic Age, has become available shortly after

the Authors Guild republished his popular RICKOVER EFFECT: How One Man Made

a Difference.   Although they are from two different publishers, the two

books are a perfect pair. Moreover, the increasing interest of the press and

the public in atomic energy and everything nuclear makes this the time for

these stories to be told.



The Rickover Effect focuses on the enigmatic, charismatic self-made admiral

who almost single-handedly converted the Navy’s major vessels to nuclear

propulsion and nearly simultaneously, under President Eisenhower’s Atoms for

Peace Program, built the world’s first commercial atomic power station and

all the technology, trained personnel and infrastructure that sustains it.

Most of today’s nuclear power plants are built on that technology.

Rockwell was at the Manhattan Project’s secret wartime city, Oak Ridge,

Tennessee, for the atomic birthing process.  In 1949, he was selected for

Admiral Rickover’s headquarters, became Technical Director, and remained

there 15 years.  He has been a key participant in nuclear energy development

ever since, working both for the Navy and for the new Atomic Energy

Commission and then for the engineering firm, MPR Associates that he started

with two colleagues in 1964.



The companion book, Creating The New World, provides a closer look back at

wartime life in Oak Ridge, and the post-war struggles of the young

scientists and engineers to convert the secret Army ordnance project into an

open, civilian program under international inspection, dedicated to bringing

a fundamental new source of virtually limitless energy to an energy-hungry

world running out of fossil fuels.



While Rickover and his people battle the Navy bureaucracy, this new book,

Creating the New World, follows the growing pains of developing a commercial

and industrial base for this exotic and challenging technology.  The

civilian development involved a different cast of characters, different

industries and different politics from the Navy story, as told in The

Rickover Effect.

The civilian stories are just as bizarre, heart warming and heart breaking

as those told in The Rickover Effect.  Some of the same characters,

including the author, inhabited both worlds and did the work to develop this

incredible technology into one that has transformed much of industry, energy

production, medicine, research and more aspects of our everyday life than

most people realize.  Moreover, the lessons learned from these varied

experiences will shed light on much of what you think you learned about

nuclear power and radiation from reading daily newspapers, watching TV news

and viewing popular films.



Review copies of both books are now available from their respective

publishers:

	New World: 888-280-7715 	Rickover Effect: 877-823-9235

For more about the author, please visit his website at:

http://members.authorsguild.net/tedrockwell



In the coming months, Rockwell is scheduled for book signings and public

speaking at such places as The 60th Anniversary of the Manhattan Project

Seminar, The Nuclear Industry Association Conference, the National Press

Club, and at various chapters of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society,

under the sponsorship of the National Academy of Engineering.



See attached flyers for more about these two books and enthusiastic praise

from such notables as:

GLENN T. SEABORG, Nobel Laureate, co-discoverer of plutonium, advisor to US

Presidents

RICHARD RHODES, popular historian and Pulitzer-winning author

FRANK DUNCAN, Award-winning US Atomic Energy Commission historian

Admiral JAMES D. WATKINS, Chief of Naval Operations, 1982-86; Secretary of

Energy, 1989-93.

FREDERICK SEITZ, Pres. Emeritus, Rockefeller University, Past Pres, National

Academy of Sciences

JOHN H. GIBBONS, Director, Congressional Office of Technology Assessment

(1980-93)

KENNETH C. ROGERS, US Nuclear Regulatory Commissioner (1987-1997)

                                                                            

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