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Going Nuclear: Notes from the officially unofficial book tour
I work in the analytical labs at one of Europe’s oldest and largest nuclear sites: Sellafield, in northwestern England. I spend my days at the fume hood front, pipette in one hand and radiation probe in the other (and dosimeter pinned to my chest, of course). Outside the lab, I have a second job: I moonlight as a writer and public speaker. My new popular science book—Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the World—came out last summer, and it feels like my life has been running at full power ever since.
Lawrence K. Akers, John F. Yegge
Nuclear Technology | Volume 27 | Number 1 | September 1975 | Pages 143-147
Technical Paper | Education | doi.org/10.13182/NT75-A15950
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The Citizens’ Workshops on Energy and the Environment program was designed to heighten citizen awareness of the many dimensions of the energy problem. It involved the development of a novel educational device—the Energy-Environment Simulator—and appropriate visual materials for a general audience. The workshops have been presented more than 1500 times and in virtually every state of the union.