The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory

by Robert P Crease and Robert P. Crease

How the discovery of a harmless leak of radiation sparked a media firestorm, political grandstanding, and fearmongering that closed a vital scientific facility.
In 1997, scientists at Brookhaven National Laboratory found a small leak of radioactive water near their research reactor. Brookhaven was--and is--a world-class, Nobel Prize-winning lab, and its reactor was the cornerstone of US materials science and one of the world's finest research facilities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262047187
• ISBN13: 9780262047180
• Release Date: October 2022
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.1"