Nuclear Power Books
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Emerging Demands for the Safety of Nuclear Power Operations: Challenge and Response
Nuclear power operations throughout the world face increasing international scrutiny from monitoring groups, government agencies, and the general public. ...
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Radiation Embrittlement of Nuclear Reactor Pressure Vessel Steels: An International Review
STP 909 has sixteen peer-reviewed papers divided into four sections that reflect changes in the nuclear power industry occurring since 1981, including escalating capital requirements and a growing worldwide dependence on nuclear power for electricity production. ...
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Effects of Deregulation on Safety
Because of the dramatic changes that economic deregulation has caused in the electricity industry and the widespread social concern about nuclear power safety, Effects of Deregulation on Safety is extremely timely. ...
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Nuclear Power and Energy Security
The last years, we routinely hear about a "renaissance" of nuclear energy. The recognition that nuclear power is vital to global energy security in the 21st century has ...
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Nuclear Power and Energy Security
The last years, we routinely hear about a "renaissance" of nuclear energy. The recognition that nuclear power is vital to global energy security in the 21st century has ...
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The Challenges to Nuclear Power in the Twenty-First Century
s 22nd International Energy Forum, held November 5-6, 1999, and is highlighted by presentations by nuclear experts from around the world, including several officials of the US Department of Energy and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. ...
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Reactor Dosimetry: 12th International Symposium
The latest edition of this popular ASTM series provides an extensive overview of the latest advances in reactor dosimetry. As operating nuclear power reactors have aged and continue to operate on extended operating licenses, new pressure vessel surveillance techniques have been required. ...
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Environmental Consequences of the Chernobyl Accident and their Remediation: Twenty Years of Experience - Report of the UN Chernobyl Forum Expert Group `Environment`
The explosion on 26 April 1986 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the consequent reactor fire resulted in an unprecedented release of radioactive material from a nuclear reactor and adverse consequences for the public and the environment. ...
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Radiation Embrittlementand Surveillance of Nuclear Reactor Pressure Vessels: An International Study
STP 819 presents an international view on this subject drawing particularly on experience in laboratory studies and operating nuclear power plants in the USA and Europe. Of particular interest to the reader is the information imparted on reactor vessel embrittlement determination through periodic surveillance of specimens exposed in operating ...
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Safer Complex Industrial Environments: A Human Factors Approach
Safety management must be proactive as well as reactive and in complex industrial systems preparedness requires a sophisticated understanding of human factors as they relate to the functional characteristics of socio-technology systems. With a particular focus on nuclear power plants in Japan, this book provides a state-of-the-art account on how to make ...
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Remaining Issues in the Decommissioning of Nuclear Powered Vessels
This collection of articles, together with the two previous companion publications of 1995 and 1997, represent the most complete set of materials on the issues relating to nuclear submarine utilisation and safety when managing spent nuclear fuel and radioactive wastes. ...
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Remaining Issues in the Decommissioning of Nuclear Powered Vessels
This collection of articles, together with the two previous companion publications of 1995 and 1997, represent the most complete set of materials on the issues relating to nuclear submarine utilisation and safety when managing spent nuclear fuel and radioactive wastes. ...
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Environment and Nuclear Energy
These include competition in deregulated energy environments, constraints levied upon use of fossil energy, and possible expansion of nuclear power into energy sectors ...
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Energy Portfolios: Customization and Management
The role of non-carbon emitting sources (e.g. nuclear power) ...
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Environmentally Improved Production Processes and Products: An Introduction
Environmentally Improved Production Processes and Products introduces students at institutes of higher education, company management, civil servants, professional designers and process engineers to the field of environmentally oriented product and process improvement. The book deals with improvements that are integrated into processes and products. It differs from other books currently ...
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Scientific and Technical Issues in the Management of Spent Fuel of Decommissioned Nuclear Submarines
The book represents a collection of papers prepared for and presented by specialists of seven concerned countries in the fourth Advanced Research Workshop (ARW), Moscow, September 22-24, 2004, sponsored and organized within the framework of the NATO-Russia partnership. Similar to the three previous publications, which collected the materials of the NATO-Russia ARWs held in Moscow in 1995, 1997 ...
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The Great Transition: Shifting from Fossil Fuels to Solar and Wind Energy
The old economy, fueled largely by coal and oil, is being replaced with one powered by solar and wind ...
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Our Renewable Future - Laying the Path for One Hundred Percent Clean Energy
By the end of the century (and perhaps sooner), we will shift from fossil fuel dependence to rely primarily on renewable sources like solar, wind, biomass, and geothermal power. Driven by the need to avert catastrophic climate change and by the depletion of easily accessible oil, coal, and natural gas, this transformation will ...
By Island Press
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Future Electricity Technologies and Systems
Where will our electricity come from in the future, and how will we use it? The UK is aiming for a 60% reduction of 1990 carbon dioxide emission levels by 2050, yet the electricity industry and patterns of electricity use must change radically if this is to be achieved. This authoritative overview analyses a range of possible scenarios for the future of electricity in the UK. Specialists in ...
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