Abena Dove Osseo-Asare

Atomic Junction

Nuclear Power in Africa After Independence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examining the quest for nuclear power in Africa through the case of Ghana's Atomic Energy Commission, this comprehensive history of nuclear research places archival sources alongside interviews with town leaders, physicists and entrepreneurs to explore the impact of these scientific pursuits on Ghanaian society.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 438g
• ISBN-13: 9781108457378
• ISBN-10: 1108457371
• Artikelnr.: 56018932

Autorenporträt

Abena Dove Osseo-Asare is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of Texas, Austin, holds a secondary appointment as an Associate Professor in the Department of Population Health at the University of Texas's Dell Medical School, and is a serving member of the editorial boards of Endeavour and Social History of Medicine. She is the author of Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa (2014), which was awarded the Melville J. Herskovits Prize in African Studies and the American Historical Association Pacific Coast Branch Book Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: nuclear reveries
1. Introduction: 'no country has monopoly of ability'
2. Nuclear winds: particles without boundaries
3. Scientific equity: physics from the Soviets
4. Atomic reactors: a fission facility for Ghana
5. Radiation within: monitoring particles in bodies
6. Atomic lands: risks on a nuclear frontier
Epilogue: nuclear power at the crossroads.