Sellout
Subtitle: how Washington gave away America's technological soul, and one man's fight to bring it home
By: Victoria Bruce
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781632862587; 9781632862594
Subjects: Molten salt reactors; Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Government policy; National security; Thorium; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Natural Resource Extraction; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Power Resources; Lobbyists; Foreign economic relations; Strategic materials; Biography; Rare earth industry
Other titles: How Washington gave away America's technological soul, and one man's fight to bring it home
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-279) and index.
Table of contents: title: Oak Ridge, Tennessee; title: Inconvenient ideas; title: The misfit; title: The biggest puzzle; title: The recruit; title: A better mousetrap; title: Homecoming; title: The student; title: Indigenous innovation; title: Kennedy Capital; title: The acquisition; title: The cowboy; title: The engineer; title: Pay dirt; title: The vision; title: War; title: A meeting of minds; title: Rough waters; title: China Inc.; title: Smoke and mirrors; title: The first to eat a crab; title: Maneuvers; title: Zero sum game; title: Epilogue: on the shoulders of giants.