"Nuclear" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... production by source This entry states the percentage share of electricity generated from each energy source. These are fossil fuel, hydro, nuclear, and ...
— The 2003 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency
... decided, would make a fine lawyer someday, not a useless putterer like Big Harry, who worked all hours overtime in that damned lab. She scowled as Harry Junior, bored with the encyclopedia, began reaching for one of Big Harry's tomes on nuclear physics. One putterer in the family was enough! But when she tried to take the book away from him, Harry Junior howled so violently that she let ...
— Teething Ring • James Causey
... on their ship," the stoker said. "Stoking. They've got a micro-nuclear drive. It's been a while since I worked with one, but I think I'll make out all right, even with the screwball way ...
— The Stoker and the Stars • Algirdas Jonas Budrys (AKA John A. Sentry)
... with solid masses, either known to be spheroidal, like the earth, the sun, the moon, Jupiter, and Venus, or presumed to be so, like the stars. The comets might be judged to be vaporous masses of various forms; but even these were supposed to surround or to attend upon globe-shaped nuclear masses. Here, however, in the case of Saturn's ring, was a quoit-shaped body travelling around the sun in continual attendance upon Saturn, whose motions, no matter how they varied in velocity or direction, were so closely followed by this strange attendant that the planet remained ...
— Myths and Marvels of Astronomy • Richard A. Proctor
... undergo longitudinal fission, and that for the same species the same number of chromosomes appear at each division. H. Wager speaks with greater reserve, acknowledging, however, the central body to be a nucleus of a rudimentary type, but devoid of nuclear membrane and nucleolus. He thinks it may possibly originate in the vacuolization of the central region, and the accumulation of chromatin granules therein. He finds no spindle fibres or true chromosomes, and considers the division ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... 1968, a few people who were afraid of the nuclear power plant. Oldsters, in whom the term "atomic energy" produced semantic reactions associated with Hiroshima. Those who saw, in the towering steam-column above it, a tempting target for enemy—which still meant Soviet—bombers ...
— Day of the Moron • Henry Beam Piper
... must have been stalled—out of gas, sort of. Something had gone wrong with their nuclear drive units. They had some emergency fuel, but they didn't want to use it. Like having a can of kerosene in the car when the tank runs dry, I suppose. It will work, but it messes up the engine. You ...
— High Dragon Bump • Don Thompson
... into the war we had sought to avoid by disunion.... Now, we Americans had the white heat of war to help leaders form the nuclear ...
— The Invisible Government • Dan Smoot |
