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Nuclear Decommissioning by Michele Laraia
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Michele Laraia

A remarkable step towards maturity of decommissioning as a whole was associated with the widespread diffusion of Environmental Impacts Assessments (EIA) devoted to decommissioning projects. EIAs (or their printed reports, ...
( Category: Materials Science March 18,2020 )
Energy for Future Presidents by Richard A. Muller
epub |eng | 2012-07-26 | Author:Richard A. Muller

Cost Nuclear power has a reputation of being the most expensive kind of traditional electric power production. This perception is based in large part on the simple observation of the ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 1,2020 )
Energy and Empire: The Politics of Nuclear and Solar Power in the United States by Gonzalez George A
epub |eng | 2012-09-06 | Author:Gonzalez, George A. [Gonzalez, George A.]

Conclusion The United States undermined its national energy security by promoting, fostering, and maintaining sprawled urban zones (as described in the last chapter). Even when it was evident that the ...
( Category: Environmental Policy February 19,2020 )
The Legacy of Chernobyl
epub |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Zhores Medvedev

There were hundreds of dead birds and most of the animals were blind. Most pets, particularly dogs, were later killed by special teams of soldiers. Dogs and cats have the ...
( Category: Nuclear May 2,2016 )
Nuclear Power: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Irvine Maxwell
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-25 | Author:Irvine, Maxwell [Irvine, Maxwell]

Chapter 5 Nuclear safety All human activity has associated risk. Before the Industrial Revolution, apart from war, these risks were largely personal. After industrialization, the ramifications of risk are much ...
( Category: Nuclear January 10,2016 )
SuperFuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future by Richard Martin
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Richard Martin [Martin, Richard]

SEVEN THE ASIAN NUCLEAR POWER RACE The island city of Mumbai, India’s cultural and business center, droops like an elephant’s trunk into the Arabian Sea. The Trombay district in the ...
( Category: Metallurgy December 25,2015 )
In Mortal Hands by Stephanie Cooke
mobi |eng | 2005-12-20 | Author:Stephanie Cooke

14 That’s the Way We Play the Game Five years after golda meir’s meeting with Nixon, when India exploded its first nuclear weapon in May 1974, the Washington press corps ...
( Category: Nuclear June 13,2015 )
Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster by Lochbaum David & Lyman Edwin & Stranahan Susan Q
azw3 |eng | 2015-02-09 | Author:Lochbaum, David & Lyman, Edwin & Stranahan, Susan Q. [Lochbaum, David]

On the opening day of the school year on April 6, 2011, a first-grader puts on her hat during an elementary school enrollment ceremony in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture. Despite the ...
( Category: Nuclear May 27,2015 )
Piece of the Sun : The Quest for Fusion Energy (9781468310412) by Clery Daniel
epub |eng | 2014-07-28 | Author:Clery, Daniel [CLERY, DANIEL]

The interior of JET, showing limiters on the central column, radio antennas on the outside wall and a divertor at the bottom. (Courtesy of EFDA JET) There was much to ...
( Category: Nuclear July 31,2014 )
A Short History of Nuclear Folly by Rudolph Herzog
epub |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Rudolph Herzog [Herzog, Rudolph]

CHAPTER SEVEN Flying Reactors There are places where radioactive substances have no business being. One of them is space. That may sound like science fiction, but it is, in fact, ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 26,2014 )
Atomic Accidents by James Mahaffey
epub |eng | 2014-01-01 | Author:James Mahaffey

134 The USS S-48, built in 1921, was possibly the only submarine to find peril in a heavy snowstorm. She was returning home to Portsmouth, Connecticut, on the night of ...
( Category: History March 25,2014 )

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