Confronting the challenges of nuclear power governance, this book provides pathways to nuclear safety cooperation between countries in East Asia where regional cooperation is challenged by geopolitical tensions....Loe edasi...
Nuclear Power in the Developing World (1982) explores the issue of nuclear power policies in developing countries. It explores how security and economic objectives, domestic policies and foreign influence shape nuclear policies....Loe edasi...
Each year billions of dollars are being spent in the area of nuclear power generation to design, construct, manufacture, operate, and maintain various types of systems around the globe. Many times these systems fail due to safety, reliability, human...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1988. This book considers why some public policies succeed and others do not. The programs and personnel of the Atomic Energy Commission are the empirical foundation for the investigation. The authors concern is with questio...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1980. This book discusses the major decisions in the civil nuclear field, and the way they were made. It spans the period between the decision to construct Calder Hall, claimed as the worlds first nuclear power station, and t...Loe edasi...
This book covers the applications of new analytical and numerical methods, including wavelet methods to explain the physical behavior of nuclear reactors. Fractional calculus represents the reactor more closely than classical integer order calculus....Loe edasi...
Following the disaster at the , the public is showing increased interest in nuclear safety. This important book is based on an independent report on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disater in Japan in March 2011. The overall goal is to pro...Loe edasi...
Atomic Age America looks at the broad influence of atomic energy, focusing particularly on nuclear weapons and nuclear power on the lives of Americans within a world context....Loe edasi...
Explores why the export of uranium remains a highly controversial issue in Australia and how this affects Australias engagement with the strategic, regime and market realms of international nuclear affairs. This book provides lessons for how - inde...Loe edasi...
Offers a profound analysis of science and technology policymaking. By focusing on an episode of major importance in Britains nuclear history - the Windscale Inquiry, a public hearing about the future of fuel reprocessing - this title offers a criti...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Aug-2009, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9780470538371)
This book documents a special collection of articles from a select group of invited prominent scientists from academia, national laboratories and industry who presented their work at the symposia on Environmental and Energy Issues at the 2008 Materi...Loe edasi...
In this volume Simon Taylor has combined interviews with former executives, regulators and analysts with his own unique insight into the nuclear industry to provide an analysis of the origins of the crisis and the financial and corporate strategies...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on nuclear accidents such as Chernobyl and Three Mile Island and their consequences, with the understanding that there are safety lessons to be learned if nuclear power generation is going to be expanded to meet our growing energy...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jun-1997, Kirjastus: Resources for the Future Press (RFF Press), ISBN-13: 9781315060699)
Applying the complex environmental questions to the possible phaseout of nuclear power in Sweden, this book considers the environmental and energy questions that industrialized nations and developing regions face. It is suitable for those interested...Loe edasi...
