{"id":2596,"date":"2012-01-22T19:39:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T00:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2596"},"modified":"2012-01-22T19:39:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T00:39:09","slug":"rad-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2596","title":{"rendered":"Rad Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, somewhere I saw a blog comment that mentioned a book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rad-Decision-Novel-Nuclear-Power\/dp\/0615136575\">Rad Decision<\/a>, written by nuclear engineer <a href=\"http:\/\/raddecision.blogspot.com\/\">James Aach<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the late 1970s, when I got my hands on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Prometheus-Crisis-Thomas-N-Scortia\/dp\/0553266632\">The Prometheus Crisis<\/a> by Scortia and Robinson, I just couldn&#8217;t put the damn thing down; I read through the night and I finished the book by the morning. So naturally, I couldn&#8217;t resist the temptation to buy the last in-stock copy of Aach&#8217;s book on Amazon.ca.<\/p>\n<p>And I am glad I did. My concerns that it would be a trashy, amateurishly written novel quickly dissipated. Indeed, in a sense it is a lot better than The Prometheus Crisis: the crisis in Aach&#8217;s book is far less dramatic, but the story is believable, the characters perhaps more credible.<\/p>\n<p>My only concern: while this book teaches a lot about nuclear power (and why we should not fear it), its likely audience already knows. Those who would benefit the most from reading it, well, won&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2596' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of weeks ago, somewhere I saw a blog comment that mentioned a book, Rad Decision, written by nuclear engineer James Aach. Back in the late 1970s, when I got my hands on The Prometheus Crisis by Scortia and Robinson, I just couldn&#8217;t put the damn thing down; I read through the night and <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=2596' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,3,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-physics","category-technology","category-50-id","category-3-id","category-12-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2599,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596\/revisions\/2599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}