General & Miscellaneous Pollution & Pollutants, Chemical Elements, Nuclear Engineering, Astronautical Engineering - Spacecraft
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Overview
This volume investigates the various government projects designed to deploy nuclear power in space.Two very different sorts of threats from space vehicles are explored in two new books. In an important work of cautionary reportage, The Wrong Stuff: The Space Program's Nuclear Threat to Our Planet, investigative journalist Karl Grossman looks at the potential global disaster risked by the future passing just above Earth of the Cassini space probe-with 72.3 pounds of plutonium aboard.
Book Details
Published
December 31, 1997
Publisher
Common Courage Press,U.S.
Pages
270
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781567511253