Books & AV --New Trier Library Online Catalog

Subscription Databases:

Facts on File: Science Online :-use internet explorer-topics, terms, images, diagrams and news articles

eLIBRARY SCIENCE: Your password is: trier

Science Reference E-Books : search topics

Encyclopaedia Britannica -- Start here for general overview and to find keywords

Opposing Viewpoints: Pro/con articles on your topic

Proquest: newspaper and magazine articles

Infotrac: newspapers, reference books and periodicals of for all subjects. (click on full text articles)

CQ Researcher: legislative news and analysis, major source for current controversial issues.

History Resource Center:  reference articles about the atomic bomb, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki.

Recommended web sites:

The ABCs of Nuclear Science -Radioactivity, anitmatter

Enrichment of Uranium

MIT: The Future of Nuclear Power Report

Nuclear Energy Institute - Pro/nuclear energy

U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board

Food Irradiation--FAQs

How Stuff Works

Breeder Reactors

Food Safety Research

Yucca Mountain Repository

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission - Nuclear power plants, radioactive waste

Nuclear Fission

Fusion Energy Education Web Site

Three Mile Island Fact Sheet

Safety in Medical Imaging Procedures

Radiation:Safety and Health Topics

Radon Gas--FAQs

Dr. Credo's Recommended Websites

Nuclear Power is the Future -article in The Wilson Quarterly

Nuclear is Not the Way - article in The Wilson Quarterly

Response to the Above Nuclear Power Articles

Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues

Areva Corporate Site

Areva III plant

Department of energy

Energy information administration

Exelon Corp.

Hyper Physics – Nuclear Physics

Center International Nuclear Safety

International Atomic Energy Association

Modern Uses of Radioactive Isotopes

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Applet – Nuclear Chain Reaction

Nuclear information & Resource Source

Nuclear Power plant demonstration

The ABC’s of Nuclear Science

The Future of Nuclear Energy

Radioactive Waste --U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Carbon Dating --How Stuff Works

Radioactivity in Everyday Life

Radioactivity -- Nuclear Regulatory Commission & simple explanation

Nuclear reactors - Nuclear Energy Institute see also U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Tracking Organic Chemistry Into Space

Nuclear Proliferation-- Issues from the Center For Defense Information

Atom Bomb and H-bomb--reactions & destructive forces

Effects of a nuclear explosion --EnviroLink

Additional Websites

Chernobyl Meltdown--TIME Coverage

Fusion possibilities as an energy source--EFDA-Jet

Irradiation of food-- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Radioactive elements & their uses-Plutonium & Uranium--Uranium Connection to Nuclear Weapons

Historical Development of atom bomb: The Manhatten Project--U.S. Department of Energy:

Ionizing Radiation - World Health Organization

Radon Gas

Plutonium --transmutation

Origin of the elements

Black Market for Radioactive Materials

Atomic Test Sites

Hiroshima & Nagasaki --explosion and long-term effects

High Yield Detonation Effects Simulator

Radioactive Weapons of War - professor of physics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

Directions for Setting up Student Email and for SHARING a Google Doc or Presentation

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