Footnotes
[1]For a description of how these will work, see Controlled Nuclear Fusion, another booklet in this series.
[2]These devices, which will be frequently mentioned later in these pages, are described in detail in a companion booklet Power from Radioisotopes.
[3]See Nuclear Reactors, another booklet in this series, for a description of the fission process and how reactors operate.
[4]For a full discussion of other aspects of this topic, see Fallout from Nuclear Tests, another booklet in this series.
[5]For a full discussion of this topic, and the safety measures taken by the AEC in connection with it, see Radioactive Wastes, another booklet in this series.
[6]Radioisotopes, unstable forms of ordinary atoms, are distinguishable by reason of their radioactivity, not by their biological or chemical activity.
[7]The time in which half of the atoms in a quantity of radioactive material lose their radioactivity.
[8]For more details of these studies, see Atoms, Nature, and Man, a companion booklet in this series.
[9]Gamma rays are high-energy electromagnetic radiation, similar to X rays, originating in the nuclei of radioactive atoms.
[10]Instruments that detect and measure radiation by recording the number of light flashes or scintillations produced by the radiation in plastic or other sensitive materials.
[11]A method involving use of nuclear reactors or accelerators for identifying extremely small amounts of material. See Neutron Activation Analysis, a companion booklet in this series.
[12]A picogram is one trillionth (10⁻¹²) of a gram.
[13]For an explanation of how similar instruments work, see Radioisotopes in Industry, a companion booklet in this series.
[14]For a discussion of proposed nuclear merchant submarines, see Nuclear Power and Merchant Shipping, another booklet in this series.
[15]These are described in Power Reactors in Small Packages, another booklet in this series.
[16]See Power from Radioisotopes, a companion booklet in this series, for a more complete discussion of radioisotopes in use.
[17]For an explanation of how these will function, see Nuclear Energy for Desalting, another booklet in this series.
[18]See Food Preservation by Irradiation, another booklet in this series, for a full account of this installation.
[19]Details are described in Plowshare, another booklet in this series.
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Accelerators
Animals in Atomic Research
Atomic Fuel
Atomic Power Safety
Atoms at the Science Fair
Atoms in Agriculture
Atoms, Nature, and Man
Books on Atomic Energy for Adults and Children
Careers in Atomic Energy
Computers
Controlled Nuclear Fusion
Cryogenics, The Uncommon Cold
Direct Conversion of Energy
Fallout From Nuclear Tests
Food Preservation by Irradiation
Genetic Effects of Radiation
Index to the UAS Series
Lasers
Microstructure of Matter
Neutron Activation Analysis
Nondestructive Testing
Nuclear Clocks
Nuclear Energy for Desalting
Nuclear Power and Merchant Shipping
Nuclear Power Plants
Nuclear Propulsion for Space
Nuclear Reactors
Nuclear Terms, A Brief Glossary
Our Atomic World
Plowshare
Plutonium
Power from Radioisotopes
Power Reactors in Small Packages
Radioactive Wastes
Radioisotopes and Life Processes
Radioisotopes in Industry
Radioisotopes in Medicine
Rare Earths
Research Reactors
SNAP, Nuclear Space Reactors
Sources of Nuclear Fuel
Space Radiation
Spectroscopy
Synthetic Transuranium Elements
The Atom and the Ocean
The Chemistry of the Noble Gases
The Elusive Neutrino
The First Reactor
The Natural Radiation Environment
Whole Body Counters
Your Body and Radiation
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