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Using the Engineering Literature, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Using the Engineering Literature, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Bonnie A. Osif
August 2011
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
600 pages
25h 45m
English
CRC Press
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Nuclear Engineering
Mary Frances Lembo
INTRODUCTION, HISTORY, AND SCOPE OF THE DISCIPLINE
On December 2, 1942, the rst successful self-sustaining atomic chain reaction was achieved at the
University of Chicago, thus ushering in the Nuclear Age and the discipline of nuclear engineering.
Rather than being a theoretical endeavor of physicists, “nuclear ssion propelled the subject into
the military arena, leading to the enormous Manhattan Project in the United States that produced
the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs (McKay, 1984, preface)”. The demands of an undertaking
on the scale of the Manhattan Project presented new and unique cha
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