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Sources for Atomic Energy Insights August 1996 (Power Barges)

ByRod Adams

Sources for Atomic Energy Insights August 1996
(Power Barges)

Simpson, John Nuclear Power from Underseas to Outer Space, American Nuclear Society, La Grange Park, IL 1995.

Valenti, Michael Power Plants to Go, Mechanical Engineering, May 1996.

Raytheon and Westinghouse Consortium Awarded 382 Million for Pakistani Power Project, Press Release dated April 22, 1996.

Floating N-Plants: Breaking New Ground in Russia’s Frozen North, Nucnet, a service of the European Nuclear Society, June 11, 1996.

Burlin, Robert B. “U.S. Army Nuclear Power Program: Impact on Tomorrow”, Army Research and Development Newsmagazine. Dec 63-Jan 64.

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