Description: Reader's Digest Press,NY, NY 1975. Good former library hardcover with dust jacket, first edition with number line to 1, usual library marks , dust jacket is taped to the book, has substantial rip and chip, but intact, binding is strong, 261 pages plus index.We Almost Lost Detroit, a 1975 Reader's Digest book by John G. Fuller, presents a history of Fermi 1, America's first commercial breeder reactor, with emphasis on the 1966 partial nuclear meltdown. It took four years for the reactor to be repaired, and then performance was poor. In 1972, the reactor core was dismantled and the reactor was decommissioned. America's first effort at operating a full-scale breeder had failed." (Wikipedia). The book inspired the song of the same name by Gil Scott-Heron. The book has been criticized by nuclear supporters, but had a large influence on public opinion concerning nuclear power plants.
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Binding: Hardcover
Place of Publication: New York
Signed: No
Publisher: Reader's Digest Press
Subject: History
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1975
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
Author: John G. Fuller
Region: North America
Personalized: No
Topic: Nuclear Power
