Re: Iinfo on Nuclear Technology

[Ruth Weiner <rfweine@sandia.gov>]

     I hate to push my own stuff, but let me recommend "Environmental 
     Pollution and Control" by J. J. Peirce, P. A. Vesilind, and R. F. 
     Weiner (the last is actually me!), Butterworth-Heinemann, 1997.  The 
     book is a shortened "lay" version of our Environmental Engineering 
     text.  I am the author of the section titled Radioactive Waste (as 
     well as the sections on air pollution and on risk).  The book covers 
     air, water, noise, and solid waste as well as radioactive waste.  
     Since it's about pollution, it's geared toward waste. This is intended 
     as a textbook, so we are as even handed as we can be, and tried to 
     avoid any propaganda.  By the way, Peirce and Vesilind are professors 
     of civil engineering at Duke University.   
     
     I would steer clear of the League of Women Voters book on radwaste 
     (though I think highly of the League).
     
     Ruth
     
     Ruth F. Weiner, Ph. D.
     Transportation Systems Department
     Sandia National Laboratories
     Mail Stop 0718
     P. O. Box 5800
     Albuquerque, NM 87185-0718
     505-844-4791
     505-844-0244 (fax)
     rfweine@sandia.gov
     
     Just my oen opinion.
     


______________________________ Reply Separator _________________________________
Subject: Iinfo on Nuclear Technology
Author:  rick.jacobi@tllrwda.state.tx.us at hubsmtp
Date:    1/17/98 3:55 PM


A local science teacher and the school librarian asked me to recommend some 
books on nuclear technology for the school library.  I searched Bookstop, 
Bookpeople, Walden Books, Borders Books and Barnes and Noble (all large, 
reputable bookstores) and found nothing on the topic that was suitable for high 
school students.  There was an abundance of books on quantum mechanics, high 
energy particle physics, nuclear weapons, the perils of nuclear power and 
radioactive waste, Caldicott, Sternglass, etc., but nothing that a lay person 
could read for a general balanced overview.
Have I overlooked something?  Is there something out there that is suitable for 
high school level students?