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Product Description: Describes how nuclear power developed, how it works, and the serious health and environmental problems that ensue when the process malfunctions.

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9780531266274 | Childrens Pr, September 1, 2011, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Describes how nuclear power developed, how it works, and the serious health and environmental problems that ensue when the process malfunctions.

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9780531254226 | Childrens Pr, September 1, 2011, cover price $29.00

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Misconceptions about the Three Mile Island crisis are cleared up in a study that reveals the causes, contexts, and consequences of the worst accident in the history of nuclear power in the United States.

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9780520239401 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $48.95 | About this edition: Misconceptions about the Three Mile Island crisis are cleared up in a study that reveals the causes, contexts, and consequences of the worst accident in the history of nuclear power in the United States.

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9780520246836 | Univ of California Pr, January 28, 2006, cover price $26.95

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Product Description: Named the "Best Gay Romance of 2004"QInsightOut Book ClubWhat happens to love when life gets in the way? When a privileged young doctor falls in love with a handsome black man, his unexpected love for Jonathan turns his well-ordered world upside down, shaking loose new feelings about what he believesQand what he believes in...read more

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9781560235187 | Harrington Park Pr, October 15, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Named the "Best Gay Romance of 2004"QInsightOut Book ClubWhat happens to love when life gets in the way?

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Product Description: On April 26, 1986, a huge explosion tore apart the Number 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union. As workers and firefighters struggled heroically to bring the blaze at the plant under control, the Soviet government issued publi (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780739860496 | Heinemann/Raintree, October 1, 2003, cover price $31.43 | About this edition: On April 26, 1986, a huge explosion tore apart the Number 4 reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in the Soviet Union.

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Presents an overview of how nuclear power plants function, the history of nuclear energy use in the United States, and describes the nuclear accident and its aftermath at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania (view table of contents)

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9780823936786 | Rosen Central, June 1, 2002, cover price $30.25 | About this edition: Presents an overview of how nuclear power plants function, the history of nuclear energy use in the United States, and describes the nuclear accident and its aftermath at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania

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An examination of the nuclear accident that occurred at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania in 1979 includes recollections from engineers, scientists, and government officials who dealt with the crisis. (view table of contents)

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9780766015562 | Enslow Pub Inc, January 1, 2002, cover price $25.27 | About this edition: An examination of the nuclear accident that occurred at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant in Pennsylvania in 1979 includes recollections from engineers, scientists, and government officials who dealt with the crisis.

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Discover what caused the worst nuclear accident to occur in the United States at Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and what its lasting effects were on the design and operation of nuclear plants.

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9780791057858 | Chelsea House Pub, November 1, 2001, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Discover what caused the worst nuclear accident to occur in the United States at Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and what its lasting effects were on the design and operation of nuclear plants.

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A gripping firsthand account of the worst nuclear power accident in America, that was caused by human error and technical failure, is told by a reporter who witnessed all the events that ensued, and causes readers to consider the ever-present danger of nuclear power. (view table of contents)

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9780763607159 | 1 edition (Candlewick Pr, October 1, 2001), cover price $19.99 | About this edition: A reporter's first-hand account of the nuclear power accident in America that was caused by human error and technical failure.

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Examines the events leading to disasters at nuclear power plants in Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union, the consequences of these accidents, and how they might have been averted

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9781575729893 | Heinemann/Raintree, November 1, 1999, cover price $24.22 | About this edition: Examines the events leading to disasters at nuclear power plants in Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union, the consequences of these accidents, and how they might have been averted

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9789264145603 | Organization for Economic, December 1, 1995, cover price $80.00

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Product Description: Meets the need for an objective assessment of the risks to human health posed by the use of nuclear power to generate electrical energy. Health risks during normal operation of nuclear power stations and following accidents are considered...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9789289013154 | World Health Organization, August 1, 1994, cover price $23.40 | About this edition: Meets the need for an objective assessment of the risks to human health posed by the use of nuclear power to generate electrical energy.

Product Description: Dramatic photographs and clear diagrams entrance an instructive explanation of how nuclear power is generated, contained, and used and of some well-known nuclear accidents. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781562947828 | Reprint edition (Millbrook Pr, June 1, 1994), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Dramatic photographs and clear diagrams entrance an instructive explanation of how nuclear power is generated, contained, and used and of some well-known nuclear accidents.

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9781562940737 | Millbrook Pr, October 1, 1992, cover price $19.90 | About this edition: Discusses nuclear energy, its source, how it works, and, giving the examples of Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, how dangerous it can be when things go wrong

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Product Description: Presents the results of research into an alternative emergency plan for the region around the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant. The results are in the form of a bold plan that is applicable to any nuclear power plant emergency.

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9780813385204 | Westview Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $37.00 | About this edition: Presents the results of research into an alternative emergency plan for the region around the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant.

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Follows the heroic actions of a Soviet firefighter as he describes the disastrous nuclear plant accident at Chernobyl.

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9781562390600 | Abdo Pub Co, September 1, 1991, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Follows the heroic actions of a Soviet firefighter as he describes the disastrous nuclear plant accident at Chernobyl.

Examines the Chernobyl nuclear accident in its historical, cultural, political, and human contexts
By Brian McGovern (illustrator) and Don Nardo

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9781560060086 | Lucent Books, January 1, 1991, cover price $18.69 | About this edition: Examines the Chernobyl nuclear accident in its historical, cultural, political, and human contexts

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Describes the events and aftermath of the 1986 nuclear reactor explosion in Chernobyl and discusses its long term effects and the future implications for nuclear power plants
By Peter Bull (illustrator) and Graham Rikard

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9780531182369 | Bookwright Pr, March 1, 1989, cover price $10.90 | About this edition: Describes the events and aftermath of the 1986 nuclear reactor explosion in Chernobyl and discusses its long term effects and the future implications for nuclear power plants

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Discusses the technology and economics of commerical nuclear reactors, effects of radiation, catastrophic reactor accidents and their effect on the future of nuclear power plants, the arms race and 'Star Wars.'

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9780871874665 | 2 sub edition (Cq Pr, November 1, 1988), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Discusses the technology and economics of commerical nuclear reactors, effects of radiation, catastrophic reactor accidents and their effect on the future of nuclear power plants, the arms race and 'Star Wars.

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Describes nuclear fission and how nuclear reactors work and discusses accidents at Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and other power plants

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9780531103302 | Franklin Watts, March 1, 1988, cover price $12.90 | About this edition: Describes nuclear fission and how nuclear reactors work and discusses accidents at Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and other power plants

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Recreates the events that led to the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, investigating the way in which the catastrophe was handled and the experiences of technicians, politicians, reporters, and the vulnerable people living nearby

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9780394510927 | Random House Inc, November 1, 1980, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Recreates the events that led to the nuclear accident at Three Mile Island, investigating the way in which the catastrophe was handled and the experiences of technicians, politicians, reporters, and the vulnerable people living nearby

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