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APRiL, 1970 • THE MINES MAGAZINE
]ook Reviews
Three Publications
On Nuclear Energy
Three publications which provide
information about the nuclear energy
literature available to the general
public and to scientists and engineers
on a world-wide basis have recently
been published by the Atomic
Energy Commission.
The booklets are "Science Information
Available from the Atomic Energy
Commission"—TID-4550 (12th
Revision) April 1969; "Subject Scope
of Nueiear Science Abstracts,"—
TID-4552 (6th Revision) January
1969; "An Analysis of World-Wide
Contributions to Nuclear Science Absti-acts,
Vol. 22 (1968)"—Tir)-25004.
The fu-st two booklets, TID-4550
and TID-4552, may be obtained without
charge from the U, S. Atomic
Energy Commission, Division of
Technical Information, P. 0. Box 62,
Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830. TID-
25004 is available for $3.00 from the
Clearinghouse for Federal Scientific
and Technical Information, Springfield,
Va. 22151,
Fast Reactors
And the Univ.
Fast Reactors and the University,
a new publication being offered by
the American Society for Engineering
Education, is the compilation of
papers from an important conference
on Fast Reactors and the University,
held at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
with financial assistance from
the Atomic Energy Commission Division
of Nuclear Education and
Training, and from ASEE.
The recent emergence of fast reactor
development as a major national
program was the impetus for
the conference. It is believed that
fast reactors have important implications
for both curricular and research
activities in nuclear engineering,
Distingmshed representatives
of industry, national laboratory,
and government participated.
The book covers the three principal
areas discussed at the conference
— general aspects of fast reactor
development, specific pertinent
technical disciplines, and academic
affairs. The issue causing most discussion
among the participants was
interdisciplinary education. The concensus
was that interdisciplinary
competence may prove even more
important in fast reactor work than
in thermal reactor work.
Fast Reactors and the University,
a 450-page book edited by Martin
Becker, is available from the American
Society for Engineering Education,
One Dupont Circle, Washington,
D. C. 20036, at a cost of $1.50 per
copy.
Oil Poilution Study
Recent disasters involving largescale
oil spills in coastal areas have
brought the problem of oil pollution
to general attention. To meet the
need for an in-depth state-of-the-art
report on this vital topic, leading research
workers have prepared a volume
published by Plenum Press,
New York.
The. work brings together, in one
unique volume, a description of the
biological damage caused by oil on
the sea, the engineering problems encountered
in atempting to clean up
the pollution, the trends in oil tanker
design, the legal probjlem of just who
is liable for damages caused by oil
spills, and governmental regulation
of production and ti'ansportation.
The interrelation of the problems
is of utmost importance. As the editor.
Professor David P. Hoult of the
Masachusetts Institute of Technology,
states in his preface, ". . . the government
can only enforce control
procediu'es if these procedures are
technologically feasible." He reminds
us that ". . . the detergent used in
cleaning up the Torrey Canyon spill
was biologically more destructive
than the oil spiUed."
To prevent similar errors in the futm-e,
every.-, facet of oil on the sea
must be explored. How the sinking
of an oil spUl may cause the oU to
enter the marine food chain, the effects
of long-term poisons derived
from crude oil, distinguishing, or
"fingerprinting," oils produced from
different oil-bearing horizons, and
low-level effects of crude oil pollution
must be studied.
The book. Oil on the Sea, the first
volume in Plenum's new "Ocean
Technology" series, covers these, and
other questions in detail, with papers
by Norman A. Holme, Max Blumer,
Robert W. Holmes, Gerard P. Canevari,
James A. Fay, David P. Hoult,
Paul Tuliy, R. F. Cooke, and Max N.
EdwaTds. Chapters on the Santa
Barbara oil spill and the effects of
Torrey Canyort poilution on marine
life emphasize that, while responsible
scientists have, for years, been attempting
to educate the public on
this issue, it took major calamaties
to draw the necessary civic attention
to the problem.
Priced at $8.75, this timely and
comprehensive volume presents the
proceedings of a symposium on the
scientific an dengineering aspects of
oil on the sea, sponsored by the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
and the Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institute. The symposium was held
in Cambridge, Mass, on May 16,
1969.
The series, of which this volume is
the first, is under the editorial direction
of Professor John P. Craven of
the Department of Naval Architecture
and Marine Engineering, aiso at
MIT,
Surface Mining Studies
Case Studies of Surface Mining is a
new book recently published by the
Society of Mining Engineers of the
American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical,
and Petroleum Engineers,
Inc., (SME of AIME).
Edited by Howard L. Hartman, the
book covers the proceedings of the
II International Sm'face Mining Conference
held in Minneapolis, Minnesota
in September 1968.
The timely, world ranging review
of the rapidly expanding technology
of surface mining includes recent developments
in the recovery of such
minerals as coal, iron ore, and copper,
and other metals such as vanadium,
uranium, j molybdenum. It
also covers industrial commodities
such as cement, kaolin clays, sulfides,
and phosphates.
Dr. Hartman is aj well-known mineral
industry educator and expert;
on rock dx-ilMng and ^penetration, mine
ventilation, and dus;t control. He is
Dean of the Schooi of Engineering at
Sacramento (Calif.) -State College,
was formerly head bf the mining engineering
department at Pennsylvania
State University, and has
taught at the University of Minnesota
and the Colorado School of Mines.
Each of the 18 case studies presented
deals with the unique engineering
problems dnd solutions experienced
under a ; wide variety of
operating conditions. In addition to
a descriptive ti'eatment of the subject,
the authors have focused on the
engineering and management decision-making
that entered into mine
development and operation.
Included in the volume is a smwey
of surface mining methods in Austraha
with emphasis on coal properties,
a survey of coal mining and
transportation in the USSR, and a
review of placer-deposit exploitation
by dredging techniques.
The list price of CASE STUDIES
OF SURFACE MINING is $26. It is
available to AIME members for $20.
Orders should be sent to AIME, 345
East 47th Sti-eet, New York N Y,
10017.
Education for Engineers
The ^third in a series of monographs
on Continuing Engineering Studies
(CES) has just been published by the
American Society for Engineering
Education. The 96-page book contains
the papers presented at the
third meeting of ASEE's CES Division
in Milwaukee, Nov.'20-22, 1968.
Under the chakmanship of Chester
L. Brisley, professor and dh-ector.
University Extension, University of
Wisconsin — Milwaukee, the conference
enabled industi'y and education
to, come together to discuss the increasingly
important area of continuing
education for engineers.
The first two books in the series
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