ABSTRACT

This book features information regarding the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the production of elementary particles, radiation exposure, the geopolitical effects of the end of the nuclear arms race between the U.S. and the former Soviet Union, and the future of nuclear power.

chapter 1|31 pages

A Story That Covers Almost A Century

chapter 2|32 pages

Radioactivity and Matter

chapter 3|36 pages

Ionizing Radiation

chapter 4|20 pages

Chemical Aspects of Nuclear Processes

chapter 6|27 pages

The Interstellar and Interplanetary Medium

chapter 7|24 pages

The Early Earth

chapter 8|32 pages

The Contemporary Earth

chapter 9|41 pages

Nuclear Energy

chapter 10|33 pages

Perspectives