Nuclear issues Books
John Wiley & Sons Inc Critical Reflections on Nuclear and Renewable
Book SynopsisProvides a personal yet scientific comparative study of nuclear energy and a spectrum of other energies from a reliability point of view, as well as outlining guidelines for developing energy policies The Fukushima nuclear accident made people ponder and question nuclear safety again, resulting in national decisions to phase out nuclear power completely. Is this the right decision? Are there better ways to deal with this important issue of the 21st century? Critical Reflections on Nuclear and Renewable Energy examines both the real and unreal potential dangers of nuclear power as well as a range of other energy sources, including coal, oil, gas, and renewable energies like solar, hydro, wind, and wave energy sources. The book analyzes the pros and cons of a spectrum of energies in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear accident in March 2011. It maintains that we should look at nuclear energy from a rational point of view instead of being influencedTable of ContentsForeword 1 ix by Arden Bement Foreword 2 xiii by Xu Kuangdi Preface xvii Introduction xxi Part I The World after March 11, 2011 — Ripple Effect of the Fukushima Accident 1 Reliability and Nuclear Power 3 2 Some Flowers Fall, and Again Th ey Bloom 15 3 Different Responses Across the Waters 21 4 Aging and Reliability 27 5 Transparent Management Guarantees Nuclear Safety 31 6 The Need for Quality Control 39 7 Don’t Let Gossip Affect the Safe Operation of Nuclear Power 45 Part II Environmental Protection, Occupational Safety and Innovation — A Spectrum of Energies 8 A Spectrum of Energy Sources 59 9 Facts about Background Radiation 67 10 Human Negligence of Occupational Safety Leads to Numerous Accidents 73 11 When Will Environmental Pollution End? 81 12 Non-nuclear Calamities Are Also Horrible 93 13 Where Can We Find Safe Energy Sources? 99 14 Pick up Our Share of the Energy Cost 111 15 In Search of Innovation in Formulating Energy Policy 121 16 Practice Makes Great 129 Appendix I 135 Appendix II 149 Postscript 157 Additional Reading Materials 169 Afterword 171 Index 173
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Palgrave Macmillan SuperFuel
Book SynopsisIn this groundbreaking account of an energy revolution in the making, award-winning science writer Richard Martin introduces us to thorium, an alternate source of energy and how it is revolutionizing nuclear power, promising a safe and clean future for millions, and why thorium was sidelined at the height of the Cold War.Table of ContentsThe Lost Book of Thorium Power The Thunder Element The Only Safe Reactor The Shadow Elements The Birth of Nuclear Power The Death of Nuclear Power India and China: A Clash of Civilizations Nuclear's Next Generation The Business Crusade What We Must Do
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Cambridge Scholars Publishing The Silence of Fallout
Book SynopsisThis collection asks how we are to address the nuclear question in a post-Cold War world. Rather than a temporary fad, Nuclear Criticism perpetually re-surfaces in theoretical circles.
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Cornell University Press Japans Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of
Book SynopsisIn Japan''s Nuclear Disaster and the Politics of Safety Governance, Florentine Koppenborg argues that the regulatory reforms taken up in the wake of the Fukushima disaster on March 11, 2011, directly and indirectly raised the costs of nuclear power in Japan. The Nuclear Regulation Authority resisted capture by the nuclear industry and fundamentally altered the environment for nuclear policy implementation. Independent safety regulation changed state-business relations in the nuclear power domain from regulatory capture to top-down safety regulation, which raised technical safety costs for electric utilities. Furthermore, the safety agency''s extended emergency preparedness regulations expanded the allegorical backyard of NIMBY demonstrations. Antinuclear protests, mainly lawsuits challenging restarts, incurred additional social acceptance costs. Increasing costs undermined pronuclear actors'' ability to implement nuclear power policy and caused a rift ins
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Radioactive Wastes & Exposure: Fundamentals,
Book SynopsisMedical exposure to ionising radiation remains by far the largest contributor to the radiation dose from manmade sources of radiation. Strategies for dose and risk management, with a focus on the minimisation of the stochastic effect and prevention of tissue reactions are presented in Chapter One. A critical review about solid radioactive wastes in Nuclear Medicine facilities and its management, storage and disposal is covered in Chapter Two. Chapter Three presents an assessment of a mixed system for calculating electromagnetic dosimetry that combined experimental radiation parameters and Finite Differences in Temporal Domain simulations based on numerical phantom rats. Chapter Four described and compares the legislation and legal provisions on waste disposal for medium, low and high levels of radiation among BRICS countries Brazil, Russia Federation, India, Peoples Republic of China and South Africa. Chapter Five introduces studies on the assessment of local acceptance of radioactive waste facilities.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Nuclear Energy: Perspectives, Challenges & Future
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Ukraine: Background, Policy and Issues
Book SynopsisThis book is a comprehensive compilation of reports, correspondence and other publications on Ukraine. Some of the issues discussed include: U.S. Policy; The Conflict with Russia; The Presidential Election; The Whistleblower Complaint; Atomic Energy.Table of ContentsPreface; Europe: Ukraine; Ukraine: Background, Conflict with Russia, and U.S. Policy; Ukraine: Report from the Front Lines; Ending the War in Ukraine: Kurt Volker, U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations; Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Ukraine; Russian Influence and Unconventional Warfare Operations in the Gray Zone: Lessons from Ukraine; Defense Cooperation Agreement between the United States of America and Ukraine; Ukraines Presidential Election: A Preview; Memorandum of Telephone Conversation with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine; Whistleblower Complaint of August 12, 2019; Atomic Energy: Nuclear Safety Arrangement between the United States of America and Ukraine; High Crimes and Pipelines: Curbing Corruption in Ukraines Energy Sector; Index.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Leukemia. Radiation. Chernobyl:
Book SynopsisThe Chernobyl disaster of 1986 is among the largest technogenic catastrophes in the history of humankind. The vast territories of Ukraine, Republic of Belarus, Russian Federation as well as bordering European states have been exposed to the contamination by the long-lived radionuclides released from the destroyed nuclear power station. The medical consequences of the Chernobyl catastrophe are being studied for more than three decades. In fact, the increased risk of certain forms of leukemia is among the major stochastic effects of radiation exposure. Nevertheless, the final unambiguous conclusions as to the role of low-dose radiation exposure in the induction of leukemia are still pending. The book presents the results of studies on the diagnosis of various forms of hematological malignancies in Ukrainian patients provided for more than thirty years in the Oncohematology Department of RE Kavetsky Institute of Experimental Pathology, Oncology and Radiobiology, the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Among the groups of leukemia patients were the Chernobyl clean-up workers as well as the patients from Ukrainian population (adults and children) inhabiting the territories with different levels of radionuclide contamination. For the first time, some trends in the patterns of hematological malignancies in several sample groups under study have been identified throughout the post-Chernobyl period. The putative association between the low dose radiation exposure and the increasing risk of acute myeloid leukemia, myelodysplastic syndromes and chronic lymphocytic leukemia has been discussed based on the findings of the authors of the book as well as the data of the available literature.
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Surrey Books,U.S. Higher Power: One American Town’s Turbulent
Book SynopsisAn in-depth, timely examination of one town’s nuclear power plant, the scandal that plagued it, and the reporter who was allowed inside.Nuclear power once promised to be the solution to the world’s energy crisis, but that all changed in the late twentieth century after multiple high-profile accidents and meltdowns. Power plant workers, finding themselves the subject of public opposition, became leery of reporters. But one plant in Zion, Illinois, just forty miles north of Chicago, allowed unrestricted access to one journalist: the Chicago Tribune’s Casey Bukro, one of the first environment reporters in the country. Bukro spent two years inside the Zion nuclear plant, interviewing employees, witnessing high-risk maintenance procedures, and watching the radiation exposure counter on his own dosimeter tick up and up.In Higher Power, Bukro’s reporting from the plant is prefaced by a compelling history of the city of Zion, including a tell-all of John Alexander Dowie, a nineteenth-century “faith healer” who founded Zion, and whose evangelism left a mark on the city well into the modern era, even as a new “higher” power—nuclear energy—moved into town.With the acceleration of climate change, the questions and challenges surrounding nuclear power have never been more relevant. How did the promise of nuclear energy stumble? Should we try to address the mistakes made in the past? What part could nuclear power play in our energy future? Higher Power explores these questions and examines one American town’s attempts to build a better society as a bellwether for national policy and decision making.Trade Review“With the swift precision of a newsman on deadline, and the easy grace of a novelist, Casey Bukro weaves an engaging historical tale about the promises and perils of nuclear power. This is simply the best book about nuclear power to date.” —William Lanouette, author of Genius in the Shadows"A fascinating hidden history that deserves attention. Where religion and nuclear power collide, Higher Power must be read to be believed." — Robert K. Elder, co-editor of The Doomsday Clock at 75“Few reporters have chronicled the development of nuclear power in the latter half of the twentieth century with as much depth and precision as Casey Bukro. In Higher Power, Bukro provides a fascinating look at the idiosyncratic history of the Illinois town that gave birth to the modern nuclear power plant. . . It is an illuminating and engaging read.” —Charles F. Whitaker, dean of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University“A powerhouse of a book. . . . [Bukro] provides a compelling trip into the past and a thought-provoking look toward the always uncertain future.” — Rick Kogan, author, journalist, and WGN radio host
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Nuclear Waste Disposal: Current Issues &
Book SynopsisThe disposal of nuclear waste is becoming a major concern. Many nuclear power plants around the world are nearing the end of their operating lives. This is particularly true in the United States where most nuclear power plants are approaching the end of the operational time period allowed in their licenses. The disposal of radioactive waste from nuclear power plants and nuclear missiles is as politically intense an issue as the plants and missiles themselves. Yet the three issues have remained curiously separate in spite of their close physical ties. Few debates on nuclear power or nuclear weapons discuss the problems of waste disposal should the power plant or missile be decommissioned. Few debates on nuclear waste disposal discuss the opportunities to close nuclear power plants or get rid of nuclear weapons a disposal site would afford. Nuclear waste can be generally classified a either "low level" radioactive waste or "high level" radioactive waste. Low level nuclear waste usually includes material used to handle the highly radioactive parts of nuclear reactors (i.e. cooling water pipes and radiation suits) and waste from medical procedures involving radioactive treatments or x-rays. Low level waste is comparatively easy to dispose of. The level of radioactivity and the half life of the radioactive isotopes in low level waste is relatively small. Storing the waste for a period of 10 to 50 years will allow most of the radioactive isotopes in low level waste to decay, at which point the waste can be disposed of as normal refuse. High level radioactive waste is generally material from the core of the nuclear reactor or nuclear weapon. This waste includes uranium, plutonium, and other highly radioactive elements made during fission. Most of the radioactive isotopes in high level waste emit large amounts of radiation and have extremely long half-lives (some longer than 100,000 years) creating long time periods before the waste will settle to safe levels of radioactivity. This new book explores the issues pertaining, either directly or indirectly, to nuclear waste disposal.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Iran: U.S. Concerns & Policy Responses
Book SynopsisThe Bush Administration has pursued several avenues to attempt to contain or end the potential threat posed by Iran, at times pursuing limited engagement, and at other times leaning toward pursuing efforts to change Iran''s regime. Some experts believe a potential crisis is looming over Iran''s nuclear program because the Bush Administration is sceptical that efforts by several European allies to prevent a nuclear breakout by Iran will succeed, although the Administration announced steps in March 2005 to support those talks. U.S. concerns have been heightened by the victory of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, an admitted hardliner, in Iran''s presidential election on June 24, 2005. Some advocate military action against Iran''s nuclear infrastructure, but others believe that a combination of diplomatic and economic rewards and punishment are the only viable options on the nuclear issue. U.S. sanctions currently in effect ban or strictly limit U.S. trade, aid, and investment in Iran and penalise foreign firms that invest in Iran''s energy sector, but unilateral U.S. sanctions do not appear to have materially slowed Iran''s WMD programs to date. Other major U.S. concerns include Iran''s policy in the Near East region, particularly Iran''s material support to groups that use violence against the U.S.-led Middle East peace process, including Hizballah in Lebanon and the Palestinian groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Some senior Al Qaeda activists are in Iran as well, although Iran claims they are "in custody" and will be tried. Iran did not obstruct the U.S. effort to oust Iraq''s Saddam Hussein, a long-time Tehran adversary, at least partly in the expectation that pro-Iranian Shiite Islamic factions would come to power in Iraq in the aftermath. That result occurred as a product of 30 January 2005 elections there. Iran is also assisting pro-Iranian local leaders in Afghanistan, although that support does not appear to be materially hindering the stabilisation and development of Afghanistan. Iran''s human rights practices and strict limits on democracy have been consistently criticised by official U.S. and U.N. reports, particularly for Iran''s suppression of political dissidents and religious and ethnic minorities. New limits on personal freedoms could be imposed by Ahmadinejad, who has consistently advocated a return to many of the original principles of the Islamic revolution as set down by the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. However, Iran does hold elections for some positions, including that of president, suggesting to some experts that there might be benefits to engaging Iranian officials. According to this view, new sanctions or military action could harden Iran''s positions without necessarily easing the potential threat posed by Iran.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Activities in Nuclear Security
Book SynopsisNuclear security measures refer to a wide range of actions to prevent theft or diversion of nuclear material or sabotage at an installation or in transit. They could include physical protection measures, material control and accounting, personnel reliability screening, and training. A broader understanding of nuclear security also includes measures to prevent and detect illicit trafficking, cargo inspections, border security, and interdiction measures. This book examines the international effort to secure all vulnerable nuclear material around the world to prevent nuclear terrorism.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Nuclear Power Plants: Design & Safety
Book SynopsisThe seismic design criteria applied to sitting commercial nuclear power plants operating in the U.S. received increased attention following the March 11th, 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan''s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station. Since the events, some in Congress have begun to question whether U.S. plants are vulnerable to a similar threat, particularly in light of the Nuclear Regulatory Commissions''s (NRC)ongoing reassessment of seismic risks at certain plant sites. This book presents some of the general design concepts of operating nuclear power plants in order to discuss design considerations for seismic events.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Nuclear Ambitions & Issues in the Middle East
Book SynopsisThis book presents and reviews the current nuclear ambitions and issues of several Middle Eastern countries such as: Iran, Pakistan, United Arab Emirates and India. This book provides background information on the nuclear programs of these countries, reviews developments to date, analyses proposed nuclear co-operation with the U.S. and discusses relevant legislative proposals and options.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Reactor Safety Recommendations: Insights from the
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Nuclear Waste: Questions & Proposals
Book SynopsisAlmost 30 years ago, Congress addressed increasing concerns regarding the management of the nation''s growing stockpile of nuclear waste by calling for the federal collection of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) and high-level nuclear waste (HLW) for safe, permanent disposal. Passed in 1982, the Nuclear Waste Policy Act (NWPA) was an effort to establish an explicit statutory basis for the Department of Energy (DOE) to dispose of the nation''s most highly radioactive nuclear waste. The NWPA requires DOE to remove spent nuclear fuel from commercial nuclear power plants, in exchange for a fee, and transport it to a permanent geologic repository or an interim storage facility before permanent disposal. This book explores the effects of a termination of the Yucca Mountain Repository Program with a focus on the need for a comprehensive DOE strategy that supports environmental cleanup decisions.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Nuclear Energy: U.S. Policies & Considerations
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Nuclear Reactor History & Fuel Cycle Management
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Proliferation Security Measures
Book SynopsisWeapons of mass destruction (WMD), especially in the hands of radical states and terrorists, represent a major threat to U.S. national security interests. Multilateral regimes were established to restrict trade in nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and missile technologies, and to monitor their civil applications. Congress may consider the efficacy of these regimes in considering the potential renewal of the Export Administration Act, as well as other proliferation-specific legislation in the 111th Congress. This book provides background and current status information on nuclear non-proliferation regimes which encompass several treaties, extensive multilateral and bilateral diplomatic agreements, multilateral organisations and domestic agencies, and the domestic laws of participating countries.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc U.S. Nuclear Waste: Critical Management
Book SynopsisThe Blue Ribbon Commission on America''s Nuclear Future was chartered to recommend a new strategy for managing the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle. The Nation''s failure to come to grips with the nuclear waste issue has already proved damaging and costly and it will be more damaging and more costly the longer it continues: damaging to prospects for maintaining a potentially important energy supply option for the future, damaging to state-federal relations and public confidence in the federal government''s competence, and damaging to America''s standing in the world -- not only as a source of nuclear technology and policy expertise but as a leader on global issues of nuclear safety, non-proliferation, and security. This book examines the use of nuclear energy as a low-carbon energy resource with a focus on the management of the nuclear fuel cycle, based on emerging technologies and developments.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Radioactive Waste: Sources, Types & Management
Book SynopsisRadioactive wastes are wastes that contain radioactive material and are usually by-products of nuclear power generation and other applications of nuclear fission or nuclear technology, such as research and medicine. Radioactive waste is hazardous to human health and the environment and is regulated by government agencies. This book presents topical research in the study of the sources, types and management of radioactive waste, including DMNR real-time online monitoring of short and medium term radioactive waste; radioactive waste from research reactor operation and decommissioning; treatment of high-level radioactive waste arising from pyroprocessing and its waste form and highly radioactive waste disposal.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc U.S. Nuclear Security of Operations & Radiation
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Nova Science Publishers Inc National Nuclear Security Administration & the
Book SynopsisDuring the late 1990s, the Department of Energy (DOE) had difficulties with a lack of clear management authority and responsibility that contributed to security problems at the nation''s nuclear weapons laboratories and management problems with major projects. In response, Congress created the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) as a separately organised agency within the DOE under the NNSA Act. The NNSA is responsible for managing nuclear weapons and non-proliferation-related national security activities in laboratories and other facilities, collectively known as the nuclear security enterprise. This book examines the problems that have arisen with the nuclear security enterprise, from projects'' cost and schedule overruns to inadequate oversight of safety and security at NNSA''s sites. With the NNSA proposing to spend tens of billions of dollars to modernise its facilities, it is important to ensure scarce resources are spent in an effective and efficient manner.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Managing Critical Isotopes: Select Assessments of
Book SynopsisLittle is known about lithium-7 production in China and Russia and whether their supplies can meet future domestic demand. According to industry representatives, China and Russia produce enough lithium-7 to meet demand from U.S. pressurised water reactors, a type of commercial nuclear power reactor that requires lithium-7 for safe operation. This book examines what is known about the supply and demand of lithium-7, what federal agencies are responsible for managing supply risks, and alternative options to mitigate a potential shortage. The authors of this book also discuss the management of helium-3 and the availability of tritium for the weapons stockpile to the National Nuclear Security Administration.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Nuclear Energy, Facility Siting & Waste Storage:
Book SynopsisThe United States (US) program for siting interim storage and permanent disposal facilities for used nuclear fuel (UNF) is at a crossroads. The March 2010 request by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for termination of the Yucca Mountain Project (YMP) license application, followed one year later by the disastrous nuclear events in Fukushima, Japan, have resulted in a fundamental reconsideration of approaches for siting interim and permanent UNF management facilities in the US. This book provides findings from a set of social science studies undertaken by the Center for Risk and Crisis Management (CRCM) and Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), which focus on public attitudes and preferences concerning the siting of nuclear repositories and interim storage facilities. This book is also a framework for moving toward a sustainable program to deploy an integrated system capable of transporting, storing, and disposing of used nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste from civilian nuclear power generation, defence, national security and other activities.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Advanced Reactors: Review of U.S. Efforts in the
Book SynopsisThe Department of Energy''s (DOE) Office of Nuclear Energy''s (NE) approach to advanced reactor research and development (R&D) focuses on three reactor technologies -- high-temperature gas-cooled reactors, sodium-cooled fast reactors, and fluoride-salt-cooled high-temperature reactors -- but NE is also funding research into other advanced reactor technologies. NE''s approach is to conduct research in support of multiple advanced reactor technologies, while collaborating with industry and academia, with the ultimate goal for industry to take the results of NE''s research to the next step of development and commercialization. This book describes NE''s approach to advanced nuclear reactor R&D and examines how NE plans and prioritizes its advanced reactor R&D activities, including deploying an advanced reactor. This book also discusses the DOE''s International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) Agreement. It examines how and why the estimated costs and schedule of the U.S. ITER Project have changed since 2006; the reliability of DOE''s current cost and schedule estimates; and actions DOE has taken to reduce U.S. ITER Project costs and plan for their impact on the overall U.S. fusion program.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Nuclear Safety in the Wake of the Fukushima
Book SynopsisThe March 2011 accident at Japan''s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant led to a worldwide review of nuclear power programs. NRC licenses and oversees civilian nuclear reactors. The State Department coordinates policy matters with international organisations and treaties, including those dealing with nuclear safety. This book examines the actions nuclear regulatory bodies from selected countries have taken to strengthen nuclear safety; the extent to which these countries have established automated systems to collect and transmit accident data; and steps international organisations have taken to support nuclear regulatory bodies and promote nuclear safety worldwide since the accident.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Abandoned U.S. Uranium Mines: Locations,
Book SynopsisBook & CD-ROM. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) defines an abandoned uranium mine (mine) as a named mine or complex developed to extract uranium ore for atomic energy defense-related activities of the United States from 1947 to 1970, as verified by purchase of ore by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) or other means. This book addresses five issues which include the location of defense-related abandoned uranium mines on federal, state, tribal, and private lands; the extent of radiation hazards, other public health and safety threats, and environmental degradation caused, or may have been caused, by the mines; a priority ranking to reclaim and remediate the mines; the potential cost and feasibility of reclamation and remediation in accordance with applicable federal law; and the status of any mine reclamation and remediation efforts. This book is accompanied by a CD-ROM which includes three reports on defense-related uranium mines locations; the radiological risk to human health and the environment; and prioritization.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Nuclear Waste Treatment: Assessments of
Book SynopsisThe Department of Energy (DOE) faces significant technical challenges in successfully constructing and operating the Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant (WTP) project that is to treat millions of gallons of highly radioactive liquid waste resulting from the production of nuclear weapons. In December 2000, DOE awarded Bechtel a contract to design and construct the WTP project at DOE''s Hanford Site in Washington State. This projectone of the largest nuclear waste cleanup facilities in the worldwas originally scheduled for completion in 2011 at an estimated cost of $4.3 billion. Technical challenges and other issues, however, have contributed to cost increases and schedule delays. This book examines remaining technical challenges, if any, the WTP faces; the cost and schedule estimates for the WTP; and steps DOE is taking, if any, to improve the management and oversight of the WTP project. Moreover, DOE recently reported that nuclear waste is leaking from two of its underground storage tanks. DOE has been experiencing delays in the construction of the WTP, a collection of facilities that are to treat the tank waste for disposal. These recently reported leaks and intrusions, combined with construction delays, have raised questions among regulators, the public, and Congress about the risks posed by continuing to store waste in the aging tanks. The book examines the condition of the tanks; actions DOE has taken or planned to respond to the recent tank leaks and water intrusions; and the extent to which DOE''s tank management plans consider the condition of the tanks and the delays in completing construction of the WTP.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Governance of the Nuclear Security Enterprise:
Book SynopsisThe United States and its allies are in a complex nuclear age, with potential adversaries modernising their arsenals, new nuclear technologies emerging, and potential new proliferants -- as well as regional challenges -- raising significant concerns. Nuclear forces provide the ultimate guarantee against major war and coercion, serving both to deter the use of weapons and to support nonproliferation initiatives. This book summarises the findings of a Congressional Advisory Panel on the current health of the nuclear security enterprise, examines the root causes of its governance challenges, and offers recommendations to address the identified problems. Furthermore, the book addresses how the Nuclear Weapons Council (Council) carries out its statutory and regulatory responsibilities and any challenges it faces in doing so and the extent to which the Council''s actions are consistent with key practices for interagency collaboration.
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Nova Science Publishers Inc Chernobyl Disaster
Book SynopsisThe massive release of radioactive material at the Chernobyl accident in 1986 led to widespread radiation exposure, in particular to people evacuated from the settlements near the reactor and workers involved in the clean-up operations, and also to several millons living in contaminated regions in Russia, Belorus and Ukraine. This book provides current research on the Chernobyl disaster. Chapter One provides a comparative analysis and evaluation of different types of countermeasures implemented in the aftermath of the accident at Chernobyl. Chapter Two discusses the artistic treatment of Chernobyl where the problem of apophasia arises. Chapter Three reviews the general tendencies of dynamics of frequencies of congenital malformations in the territories polluted by radioactive Chernobyl radionuclides. Chapter Four discusses the impact of low doses of radiation. Chapter Five provides an overview of the increase of non-cancer morbidity on the Chernobyl radioactively contaminated territories. Chapter Six develops a concept of premature aging development in liquidators in the remote period after the Chernobyl disaster. Chapter Seven discusses the long term consequences of atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons and Chernobyl disaster on the territory of South Bohemia in Czech Republic. Chapter Eight studies the stress adaptation of microscopic fungi from around the Chernobyl atomic energy station. Chapter Nine focuses on perspectives of nuclear safety. The final chapter is a short commentary on the radiation and risk of hematological malignancies in the Chernobyl clean-up workers.
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Academica Press Nuclear Agendas in Japan and Taiwan: A
Book SynopsisNuclear Agendas in Japan and Taiwan compares practical management cases regarding nuclear energy in regional neighbouring partners: Japan and Taiwan. An introductory overview of Japan's nuclear policy leads to the specification of important factors tangible in everyday life. What we perceive as knowledge transfer innovation and renewed industrial assessments shift to a regional territory that develops its own rules and practices within the dimension of nuclear energy innovation technology and post-crisis regulatory agendas. This literature-based discussion refers to complementary systems and recovery practices that have been envisioned in a post-Fukushima nuclear adaptive model. Thematic information about environmental effects and institutional partnerships advance the idea of a comparable ecosystem in which deliberative processes undertaken in Japan follow science, technology, and societal (STS) exchanges that form concurrent regional action plans with contextual disaster risk arrangements. Taiwan is an essential complementary innovation case reviewed in this analysis for contextual environmental policy directions. Reflections about regional knowledge transfers and energy innovation technology in Taiwan highlight some history-related factors that can facilitate a specific understanding of regional innovation in Asia-Pacific and local energy innovation partnerships. Nuclear energy organizational plans for Taiwan are introduced in association with the (STS) approach due to comparable socioeconomic dynamics that can deeply influence science and technology enterprises and Taiwanese localities, thereby offering objective participation. In both Japanese and Taiwanese nuclear regulatory cases, this technical account indicates the build-up of communication systems and a regional development framework that has been reformed progressively, but nevertheless shows an increased tendency to classify promotional learning networks through safety and security schemes intertwined with nuclear energy transitions worldwide.
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Academica Press Nuclear Energy: Perception or Reality?
Book SynopsisNuclear energy is the most controversial energy source in the 21st century. Both nuclear energy advocates and nuclear energy opponents try to manipulate society by providing incomplete or incorrect information about nuclear energy. Nuclear Energy: Perception or Reality? provides readers with objective information about both the advantages and disadvantages of nuclear energy and explains many common myths about it.
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A New Model for Balanced Growth and Convergence:
Book SynopsisThis topical book addresses the need for emerging economies in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe to find a new, sustainable growth model that fosters continued convergence with the EU without leading to the build-up of new vulnerabilities.The expert contributions frame the discussion on balanced growth in Europe, deal with the legacy of the old growth model (such as managing disrupted capital flows and deleveraging), and provide insights from the growth strategies of Russia and Turkey as well as the adjustment process of successful small CESEE countries. They focus on providing a multi-disciplinary assessment, combining the views of policy-makers and academics with those of central and commercial bankers.This book will prove a thought-provoking read for academics, researchers and students in the fields of economics - particularly international economics - and finance, money and banking. Policy-makers and economists interested in European integration and emerging European economies will also find this book to be an invaluable resource.Contributors: A.F. Aysan, G. Bisagni, D. Bogov, M. Dabrowski, M. Ferrazzi, A. Filardo, M. Gächter, L. Gattini, M.H. Güler, A. Hansson, S. Honkapohja, R. Jela i , K. Knot, I. Korhonen, A. Krstevska, E. Liikanen, E. Nowotny, C. Orman, E. Plato, P. Pumberger, M. Randveer, D. Revoltella, A. Riedl, D. Ritzberger-Grünwald, K. Sonin, E. Tuomi, S. VerkaartTable of ContentsContents: Preface PART I: FRAMING THE DISCUSSION ON BALANCED GROWTH IN EUROPE 1. The Necessity of Sustainable Growth and Continued Income Convergence in Europe Ewald Nowotny 2. Changes in Banking in the Run-up to the Crisis Erkki Liikanen 3. Restarting Growth in Europe after the Great Recession: CEE versus Other Countries Seppo Honkapohja and Iikka Korhonen 4. The European Debt Crisis and a Stable Design of EMU Klaas Knot and Silvie Verkaart PART II: STOP AND GO OF CAPITAL FLOWS AND DELEVERAGING 5. Managing Stop–Go Capital Flows in Asian Emerging Markets: Lessons for the CESEE Economies Andrew Filardo 6. CESEE Banks Deleveraging or Rebalancing? Lessons from the EIB Bank Lending Survey Luca Gattini and Debora Revoltella 7. Managing Capital Flows in a Globalized Economy Marek Dabrowski PART III: GROWTH STRATEGIES OF EU NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES: RUSSIA AND TURKEY 8. Russia in 2012: The Challenge of Reforming the Economy Without a Political Reform Konstantin Sonin 9. Sustaining Growth in Emerging Markets: The Role of Structural and Monetary Policies Ahmet Faruk Aysan, Mustafa Haluk Güler and Cüneyt Orman PART IV: SMALL-COUNTRY EXPERIENCES IN ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT 10. Business Cycle Convergence or Decoupling? Economic Adjustment of CESEE Countries During the Crisis Martin Gächter, Aleksandra Riedl and Doris Ritzberger-Grünwald 11. South-Eastern Europe: Impacts from the Crisis, Vulnerabilities and Adjustments Dimitar Bogov and Aneta Krstevska 12. Economic Adjustment in the Baltic Countries Ardo Hansson and Martti Randveer PART V: A PRACTITIONER’S VIEW 13. Basel III from a Practitioner’s Perspective Esa Tuomi and Eriks Plato 14. Banks’ Challenges in Central and Eastern Europe Radovan Jelašić 15. Banking in CEE: Less Growth, More Balance Gianfranco Bisagni, Matteo Ferrazzi and Pia Pumberger Index
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Berghahn Books The Meanings of a Disaster: Chernobyl and Its
Book Synopsis The disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was an event of obviously transnational significance—not only in the airborne particulates it deposited across the Northern hemisphere, but in the political and social repercussions it set off well beyond the Soviet bloc. Focusing on the cases of Great Britain and France, this innovative study explores the discourses and narratives that arose in the wake of the incident among both state and nonstate actors. It gives a thorough account of the stereotypes, framings, and “othering” strategies that shaped Western European nations’ responses to the disaster, and of their efforts to come to terms with its long-term consequences up to the present day.Trade Review “Readers will find Kalmbach’s book a good companion for the Chernobyl history literature... Kalmbach’s work also sits on a shelf of the new disaster studies scholarship that explores the politics of disaster as contingent, urgent, and slow moving.” • Technology and Culture “…an engaging tale chronicling the construction of narratives comprising the discursive legacy of Chernobyl outside of Eastern Europe…A reminder that the Chernobyl debates are not over.” • Isis “Through wide-ranging and careful research, Karena Kalmbach elaborates the many ways in which the Chernobyl accident became a European historical event closely turning around national politics in Great Britain and France. Kalmbach shows the irony of transnational nuclear technologies and nuclear fallout confined in national discourse.” • Kate Brown, MIT “The Meanings of a Disaster is a meticulously researched, readable, and intelligently argued analysis of over two decades’ worth of Chernobyl discourse in France and Britain.” • Sonja Schmid, Virginia Tech “As a follow-up to her skillful study of discourses around nuclear power and radiation protection in France following the Chernobyl disaster, Karena Kalmbach has provided a fresh look at the problem in transnational and comparative perspective. Her argument is well-grounded, based on broad evidence, and embedded within a clear and effective conceptual framework.” • Anna Veronika Wendland, Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central EuropeTable of Contents List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. 1986–88: Direct Reactions and Early Narratives Chapter 2. 1989–2005: Chernobyl Memory in the Making Chapter 3. 2006: The Chernobyl ‘Renaissance’ within the ‘Nuclear Renaissance’ Conclusion Epilogue Bibliography Index
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ISTE Ltd Nuclear Economy 2: Nuclear Issues in the Energy
Book SynopsisThis book presents the factual, precise, complete and accessible economic elements of nuclear energy in order to contribute to an informed and dispassionate debate. It analyzes the economic aspects of spent fuel management, including the costs and financing of long-term storage and deep geological disposal. The economic costs of a nuclear accident are also discussed from both theoretical and applied angles, based on the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Nuclear Economy 2 also examines the industrial and political aspects of the future energy mix. Nuclear energy is thus placed in the more global context of the European electricity market. Finally, this book offers a panorama of energy scenarios on the scale of France, but also of the world.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Management of Spent Fuels 1Jacques CANTARELLA, Cécile EVANS, Pierre KUNSCH, Didier LÉONARD and Jean-Paul MINON 1.1 Spent fuel management strategies and costs 1 1.1.1 The different options of the cycle 2 1.1.2 Characteristics of the cycle options 8 1.1.3 Economic evaluations 10 1.1.4 Deep storage as a preferred solution 14 1.2 Costs and methods of financing radioactive waste management 15 1.2.1 Introduction 15 1.2.2 Analysis of the costs related to the long-term management of radioactive waste 17 1.2.3 Financing the long-term management of radioactive waste 42 1.2.4 Conclusion on the costs and financing of waste storage 63 1.3 References 64 Chapter 2 Nuclear Power in the European Electricity Market 67Jacques PERCEBOIS and Boris SOLIER 2.1 The functionality of the wholesale electricity market 69 2.2 The price set by the merit order of marginal costs 71 2.3 Nuclear power and the wholesale price of electricity 75 2.4 The need for a capacity market 82 2.5 The carbon market and spot market in Europe 84 2.6 Accounting for the system costs in the merit order 87 2.6.1 Crowd-out cost of controllable power plants 88 2.6.2 Back-up of non-controllable power plants 90 2.6.3 Rates based on costs 94 2.7 The case of nuclear power and the ARENH mechanism, a hindrance to the market 95 2.7.1 The ARENH, a "canal lock" for removing rents 95 2.7.2 ARENH reform projects 103 2.8 Conclusion 113 2.9 References 114 Chapter 3 The Industrial Challenges of Nuclear Power 117Xavier URSAT 3.1 Nuclear power, part of the energy transition 118 3.1.1 Nuclear power, the third largest industrial sector in France 118 3.1.2 The EPR, a nuclear technology of the future 120 3.1.3 NUWARD, the French project for SMRs 121 3.2 A sector committed to a dynamic of deep transformation 122 3.2.1 The restructuring of the nuclear sector since 2015 122 3.2.2 The unfavorable industrial context during the first days of the EPR 125 3.2.3 The Excell plan: a return to excellence 126 3.2.4 An effective dynamic 128 3.3 Giving visibility to the sector through a long-term energy strategy 130 3.3.1 In France: ensuring supply capacity and guaranteeing carbon neutrality 131 3.3.2 Designing an energy strategy covering all of Europe 134 3.4 Conclusion 135 3.5 References 135 Chapter 4 The Economic Costs of a Nuclear Accident 137Ludivine PASCUCCI-CAHEN 4.1 Fields of economic analysis 138 4.2 Uses of nuclear accident cost assessments 141 4.2.1 Optimization of post-accident management strategies 141 4.2.2 Insurance mechanisms for covering a nuclear accident 142 4.2.3 Evaluation of investments for the safety of nuclear installations 151 4.3 Methods for estimating the costs of a nuclear accident 153 4.3.1 General considerations 153 4.3.2 Costs at the accident site 154 4.3.3 Off-site costs directly related to contamination 159 4.3.4 Other off-site costs 164 4.4 Application to the Fukushima nuclear accident 166 4.4.1 Synthesis 166 4.4.2 Compensation for damages 168 4.4.3 On-site cleaning and dismantling costs 168 4.4.4 Costs to remediate the contamination 169 4.4.5 Economic losses from agriculture and fishing 169 4.4.6 Effects on industrial production 170 4.4.7 Effects on tourism 170 4.4.8 Image effects on the agribusiness sector 171 4.4.9 Image effects on tourism 172 4.4.10 Effects on the electricity generation system 172 4.4.11 Macroeconomic effects 173 4.5 Conclusion 173 4.6 References 174 Chapter 5 Prospective Scenarios from the Present to 2050 179Patrick CRIQUI, Rodica LOISEL and Lionel LEMIALE 5.1 Global energy scenarios and the role of nuclear power 179 5.1.1 A brief history of energy planning 179 5.1.2 The "new generation" scenarios and the role of nuclear power 188 5.2 Modeling nuclear power in the energy transition 195 5.2.1 Load monitoring in nuclear power plants 197 5.2.2 Methodology 200 5.2.3 Technical and economic analysis of nuclear reactors in scenarios up to 2050 203 5.2.4 Sensitivity analysis 205 5.2.5 Organizational, technical and technological perspectives 212 5.2.6 Recommendations for the section 215 5.3 The study "Energy Futures 2050" by RTE (2021) 216 5.3.1 Purpose and scope of the study 217 5.3.2 Consumption and production assumptions 220 5.3.3 Economic analysis 230 5.3.4 Comments in response to the RTE study 233 5.4 Conclusion 235 5.5 References 237 Appendix The Dismantling of Nuclear Facilities 243Jacques PERCEBOIS and Nicolas THIOLLIÈRE List of Authors 255 Index 257 Summary of Volume 1 259
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John Blake Publishing Ltd Eve of Destruction: The inside story of our
Book SynopsisUS President Harry Truman evidently understood the terrifying power of atomic weaponry, but no one could have realised its full potential when he ordered the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Those military attacks, along with the disasters at the Fukushima and Chernobyl nuclear reactors, might spring to mind at the mention of nuclear destruction, but the majority of the events recorded in this book are entirely unknown to most people. This book records the facts - many of them still shrouded in secrecy - which show a worrying truth: we have teetered precariously on the brink of Armageddon far more frequently than the general public realises.Since that first and last atomic war in 1945, there have been a terrifying number of nuclear accidents and mishaps, from the careless or accidental to the genuinely intentional and only narrowly averted. Despite the catastrophic nature of any nuclear conflict, we have come to the very borders of such a situation eight times since the 1960s. These were potential conflicts, but there have been other accidents, such as the reactor meltdown at the nuclear generating plant at Three Mile Island, Pennsylvania, in 1979, or the 'Palomares Incident' in 1966, when a USAF B-52 bomber crashed after a mid-air collision, dropping four hydrogen bombs on Spanish soil . . .Eve of Destruction is a warning from recent history. It is a call to sit up and listen, and to take note of the very real danger of nuclear catastrophe. It is a timely and important book because, after all, the future of our planet has to concern us all.
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Lexington Books Nuclear Weapons and the Environment: An
Book SynopsisIn Nuclear Weapons and the Environment, John Perry highlights the environmental damage caused by nuclear device testing. The failure of the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty and the continued proliferation of nuclear weapons is a grave risk to not only human life but to the environment. Pointing to the unstable political situation between a variety of state and non-state actors, the remediation of nuclear test sites, and the risks involved in the production of nuclear weapons, Perry makes a clear case for the dire importance of non-proliferation.Trade ReviewDuring the Cold War, the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis threatened to wipe out humanity and took the United States and the USSR to the brink of total annihilation as JFK and Nikita Khrushchev looked into the abyss of where a security policy based on Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) had taken them. A policy of Gradual Reduction in Tensions (GRIT), bilateral treaties, and a security deterrence strategy de-escalated tensions between both superpowers. More recently Pakistan and India have escalated their ongoing conflict over the Kashmir as Indian and Chinese troops have clashed at various locations along the Sino-Indian border. And North Korea continues to test missiles for its nuclear warheads as the 2015 Iran nuclear deal flounders due to the lack of US leadership. The risk of a nuclear armageddon is never far away. John Perry has produced an important and stimulating exploration of how the proliferation of nuclear weapons, as well as nuclear accidents in Chernobyl, Ukraine, and in Ōkuma, Japan, pose a grave threat to the environment and to life on planet earth. This excellent book will have a wide audience. -- Sean Byrne, University of ManitobaTable of ContentsTable of ContentsChapter One: Introduction to Book on Non-ProliferationChapter Two: Historical BackgroundChapter Three: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation TreatyChapter Four: The Risk of a Regional Nuclear War between India and PakistanChapter Five: The Environmental and Human Cost of Producing Nuclear WeaponsChapter Six: Chernobyl: The World’s Worst Nuclear AccidentChapter Seven: The Greatest Industrial Accident in History: Fukushima DaiichiChapter Eight: The Greatest Deproliferation of Nuclear Weapons in the Postwar PeriodChapter Nine: Nuclear Proliferation through Theft, Terrorism or NeglectChapter Ten: Nuclear Weapons Testing: Inflicting the Conditions of Nuclear War on Fragile EnvironmentsChapter Eleven: Pakistan: The Biggest and Most Important Exporter of Nuclear Technology in the History of the Nuclear AgeChapter Twelve: The Ultimate Weapon as the Ultimate Guarantee of Regime Survival: North Korea and the Bomb
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Intellect Books Atomic Postcards: Radioactive Messages from the
Book Synopsis Atomic postcards played an important role in creating and disseminating a public image of nuclear power. Presenting small-scale images of test explosions, power plants, fallout shelters, and long-range missiles, the cards were produced for mass audiences in China, the United States, the Soviet Union, and Japan, and they link the multilayered geographies of Atomic Age nationalism and tourism. From the unfailingly cheery slogans—“Greetings from Los Alamos”—to blithe, handwritten notes and no-irony-intended “Pray for Peace” postmarks, these postcards mailed from the edge of danger nonetheless maintain the upbeat language of their medium. With 150 reproductions of cards and handwritten messages dating from the 1945 bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the end of the Cold War, Atomic Postcards offers a fascinating glimpse of a time when the end of the world seemed close at hand.Trade Review'fuses the almost inherently banal form of the canned tourist dispatch with the incipient peril, and nervously giddy promise, of the nuclear age.' - Slate.comTable of ContentsRECTO | VERSO – JOHN O’BRIAN THE POSTCARDS CATALOGUE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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Granta Books Fallout: A Journey Through the Nuclear Age, From
Book SynopsisAt a moment when a new generation of power stations and weapons are being developed, Fallout is a measured and fascinating exploration of our most misunderstood energy source and asks: what can we learn from our past mistakes, and what role should nuclear play in our future? Hiroshima. Bikini Atoll. Windscale. Chernobyl. Fukushima. These names no longer denote a place, but a disaster. In a few syllables, they evoke the heights of human ingenuity clashing with the worst of human error. Individually, each place has its own sobering story to tell; together, they form a timeline of the nuclear age. In this compelling and deeply researched book, Fred Pearce investigates the greatest nuclear incidents and accidents of the past 80 years by visiting their now iconic landscapes. He tours former power stations and abandoned testing sites in the company of scientists and engineers, and in previously toxic wastelands, where radioactive wolves now stalk the streets and genetically-malformed flora blooms, he witnesses the surprising resilience of nature. As well as the physical legacy, Pearce also considers the psychological impact of these disasters. Amid rumours of state cover-ups, corporate deception, and hushed-up medical epidemics, Pearce weighs the evidence on either side of the argument to disentangle the facts from the fear.
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Royal Society of Chemistry Nuclear Power and the Environment
Book SynopsisThe environmental implications of generating electric power from nuclear fission have been a matter of concern since the construction of the earliest nuclear reactors and power stations in the 1950s. After two or more decades of construction of nuclear power stations, this ceased in many countries, largely as a result of concerns for the environment and human health. However, the pressing need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is leading many countries to plan extensive new programmes of construction of nuclear power stations which serves to re-emphasise concerns over environmental impacts. Volume 32 of the Issues in Environmental Science and Technology series is concerned with reviewing the political and social context for nuclear power generation, the nuclear fuel cycles and their implications for the environment. Known issues of nuclear accidents, the legacy of contaminated land and low level waste, and the decommissioning of nuclear sites are considered together with a more forward look at the deep geological disposal of high level waste and the pathways of radioactive substances in the environment and their implications for human and non-human organisms. This topical work will be of interest to scientists and policy makers working within this field or related areas as well as advanced students.Trade ReviewAll principal environmental issues in the nuclear industry are dealt with. There are lots of interesting historical facts in all chapters An interesting read for anyone looking at yesterday and today. -- Ken Jones * Chromatographia (2012) 75:429-430 DOl 10.1 007/s10337 -012-2208-6 *Table of ContentsNuclear Power Generation û Past, Present and Future; Discharges from the Nuclear Fuel Cycle; Nuclear Accidents; Management of the Nuclear Legacy û Contaminated Land and Low-Level Waste; Decommissioning of Nuclear Sites; Geological Disposal of High Level Waste; Pathways of Radioactive Substances in the Environment; Environmental Consequences of Radioactivity; Human Consequences of Environmental Radioactivity
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Radioactive Waste Management 2000: Challenges,
Book SynopsisThe papers in this volume have been written and brought together by a group of experts, each of whom deals with radioactive waste management on a daily basis, as well as having the deep knowledge and level of expertise that only industry insiders can achieve. Topics covered here include: treatment issues; waste mangement practice; transport and storage; and environment and regulations.Table of ContentsPart 1 Treatment issues: the new Dounreay low-level liquid effluent treatment plan; the disposal of a radioactive cell; technical and operational risk management strategies for the Sellafield Drypac Plant (SDP). Part 2 Waste management practice: radiation inheritance of Russian nuclear fleet and ecological safety problems relating to utilization of nuclear submarines and rehabilitation of other facilities in the Navy; decontamination and waste minimization techniques in nuclear decommissioning; transuranic waste management at Los Alamos National Laboratory; disposition of Russian nuclear submarines - outlines of the concept and implementation problems; management of accumulated operational wastes at BNFL's decommissioning reactor sites. Part 3 Transport and storage: transportation of spent fuel in Japan; engineering considerations associated wtih plant used for storage of intermediate level waste - a regulator's view; the packaging of waste for safe long-term management; independent monitoring of solid low-level radioactive waste disposals in the UK; round robin test for the non-destructive assay of 220 litre radioactive waste packages; the feasibility of surface for high-level waste. Part 4 Environmental and regulation: application of in-line monitoring to waste minimization during soil remediation; contained water management within the Chernobyl "shelter object"; ALARP as applied to high-level waste - the regulatory approach at Sellafield; radiation safety problems arising with damaged nuclear submarines utilization; experience in nuclear decommissioning and waste management; disposal of radioactive waste - a puzzle in four dimensions.
£191.66
Imperial College Press Nuclear Power, Energy And The Environment
Book SynopsisWe need energy to warm and light our homes, to power our transport and communications, and to support our manufacturing industries. Can we obtain enough energy to satisfy the needs of a rapidly increasing world population without, at the same time, devastating the earth? Is nuclear power the way to do this?This book surveys available energy sources and their effects on the environment in the context of moral imperatives and political realities.Trade Review"... this book is well worthwhile reading. Many of the points made are very real and need debating." Euro Japanese JournalTable of ContentsThe energy crisis; the renewable energy sources; nuclear power; the safety of nuclear reactors; choosing the best energy sources; effects on the environment; energy scenarios; political aspects of the energy crisis; moral aspects of the energy crisis.
£75.05
Imperial College Press Nuclear Power, Energy And The Environment
Book SynopsisWe need energy to warm and light our homes, to power our transport and communications, and to support our manufacturing industries. Can we obtain enough energy to satisfy the needs of a rapidly increasing world population without, at the same time, devastating the earth? Is nuclear power the way to do this?This book surveys available energy sources and their effects on the environment in the context of moral imperatives and political realities.Table of ContentsThe energy crisis; the renewable energy sources; nuclear power; the safety of nuclear reactors; choosing the best energy sources; effects on the environment; energy scenarios; political aspects of the energy crisis; moral aspects of the energy crisis.
£38.00
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Nuclear 2.0: Why a green future needs nuclear
Book SynopsisEverything you thought you knew about nuclear power is wrong. This is just as well, because nuclear energy is essential to avoid catastrophic global warming. While renewables will surely play an important part in our future energy strategy, expecting them to deliver all the world's power is dangerously delusional. In 2014, statistics showed that wind and solar power contributed only 1 per cent of global primary energy. Similarly, while energy saving has a key role to play in the developed world, there is no possibility of humanity as a whole using less energy while the developing world is extracting itself from poverty. And the fact is that the anti-nuclear movement of the 1970s and '80s has made the world more dependent on fossil fuels. In Nuclear 2.0, environmental campaigner Mark Lynas debunks the myths that have cast nuclear energy in a bad light. Often overlooked because of concerns surrounding nuclear waste and radiation poisoning after the Chernobyl disaster, atomic energy is one of the most impressive sources of low-carbon power. In this enlightening read, Mark looks at the science and re-evaluates the situation to unravel why our future is threatened not just by the big fossil-fuel companies, but also the professional anti-nuclear Green groups. This book is a call for all those who want to see a low-carbon future to join forces and advocate a huge, Apollo-Program-scale investment in wind, solar and nuclear power.Trade ReviewA passionate appeal to environmentalists to embrace all the tools available that can tackle climate change. This book deserves to be read. * David MacKay FRS, Chief Scientific Advisor to the UK Department of Energy & Climate Change *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. How we got to where we are 2. The carbon challenge 3. The N-word 4. The case against: nuclear accidents and radiation 5. Next generation: Nuclear 2.0 6. The spectre of climate change 7. All of the above Notes Index
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Libri Publishing Atomic Blackmail: The Weaponisation of Nuclear
Book SynopsisIn Atomic Blackmail? Simon Bennett examines the very real possibility of the ‘weaponisation’ of nuclear facilities during the Russia-Ukraine War. The War is being fought in proximity to nuclear facilities and working nuclear power stations, including the six-reactor Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), Europe’s largest, and the decommissioned four-reactor Chernobyl NPP that, in 1986, suffered a catastrophic failure that released radioactive contamination across much of Europe. In 1985, foreign affairs and nuclear expert Bennett Ramberg published Nuclear Power Plants: An Unrecognised Military Peril. In his visionary discourse, Ramberg posited that in future wars, regional or global, nuclear facilities and powerplants might be weaponised to gain political traction over an opponent and neutralise opposing forces’ capacity for battlefield manoeuvre. While, at the time of writing Atomic Blackmail?, none of Ukraine’s fifteen reactors had been damaged in an exchange of fire, the possibility remains that this could happen during Ukraine’s 2023, and subsequent, offensives to expel Russian forces from sovereign Ukrainian territory. Though Ramberg’s nightmare vision of destroyed NPPs rendering a country uninhabitable has not, yet, been realised in the Russia-Ukraine War, the longer and more intense the conflict, the greater the likelihood that one or more of Ukraine’s NPPs will be damaged or, via a credible sabotage threat, used to leverage tactical or strategic advantage. Atomic blackmail finally exampled.
£17.10
Scribe Publications Fallout from Fukushima
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SAR Press Half-Lives & Half-Truths: Confronting the
Book SynopsisThe long Cold War of the twentieth century has ended, but only now are the poisonous legacies of that "first nuclear age" coming to light. Activists and anthropologists, the authors of this volume reveal the devastating, complex, and long-term environmental health problems afflicting the people who worked in uranium mining and processing, lived in regions dedicated to the construction of nuclear weapons or participated, often unknowingly, in radiation experiments. The nations and individuals, many of them members of indigenous or ethnic minority communities, are now demanding information about how the United States and the Soviet Union poisoned them and meaningful remedies for the damage done to them and the generations to come. As nuclear proliferation accelerates, this struggle takes on ever greater urgency.
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