| MEGAWATTS AND MEGATONS: A Turning Point in the Nuclear Age? Richard L. Garwin Georges Charpak New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-0-375-40394-1 | ||||
| ISBN 0-375-40394-9 | 412pp. | HC/GSI | $30.00 | |
| Page 98: | "In other work, a newfound ability to disable the p53 gene has been used to permit larger doses of radiation in the treatment of cancer, doses that would otherwise kill surrounding cells they are not severely damaged but would have been condemned to death by the vigilance of p53." |
| Missing word: S/B "if they are not severely damaged". |
| Page 110: | "With temperature T expressed in degrees above absolute zero (-273.18°C) ..." |
| This is probably a typo. In Celsius degrees, absolute zero S/B "(-273.15°C)". |
| Page 123: | Lines 2-5 of Table 5.1 |
| The names of the isotopes in these lines are displaced downward one notch. |
| Page 123: | Table 5.1 gives the half-life of Technitium-99 as " 2.13x106 ", or 2,130,000 years. |
| This must be a typo. Most sources give 213,000 years (2.13x105) as the half-life. Brookhaven's NUDAT 2 gives 211,100 years. |
| Page 167: | "In the General Atomics approach (building on experience of a similar reactor at Peachbottom, George and Fort Saint Brain, Colorado)..." |
| Error of number: S/B "similar reactors at". |
| Page 198: | In Table 7.2, the last two numbers in the second column read as "150" and "152". |
| Assuming standard rounding conventions, these are addition errors: S/B "151" and "153". |
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