Safety Issues Associated With Plutonium Involvement In The Nuclear Fuel Cycle

Author : Theodore A. Parish,Vyacheslav V. Khromov,Igor Carron
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401145916

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Safety Issues Associated with Plutonium Involvement in the Nuclear Fuel Cycle by Theodore A. Parish,Vyacheslav V. Khromov,Igor Carron Pdf

The "VOLGA" conferences, hosted in odd-numbered years by the Department of Theoretical and Experimental Reactor Physics of the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MEPhI), are some of the most prestigious technical meetings held in Russia. Traditionally, these conferences present the opportunity for reactor physicists from around the world to gather at MEPhI's holiday camp on the banks of the Volga river (near Tver) to exchange ideas and explore innovative concepts related to nuclear power development. In 1997, NATO became involved in the "VOLGA" meetings for the first time by co-sponsoring "VOLGA97" as an advanced research workshop. This workshop broke with tradition a bit in that the venue was moved from MEPhI's holiday camp to a location nearer Moscow. The workshop program was effectively organized in order to cover a broad range of topics relating to the theme of the meeting. Generally, the papers concerned safety related questions associated with utilizing both weapons-grade and reactor-grade plutonium in the nuclear fuel cycle, including facility requirements, licensing issues, proliferation risks, and a variety of advanced concepts for alternative fuel cycles. The program contained a total of ninety-nine papers presented in five days of sessions.

Author : Nicholas Tsoulfanidis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN : 0894484605

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The Nuclear Fuel Cycle by Nicholas Tsoulfanidis Pdf

Author : Arthur L. Singleton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Nuclear fuels
ISBN : UOM:39015095064120

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Sources of Nuclear Fuel by Arthur L. Singleton Pdf

Author : Committee on the Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage,National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780309165198

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Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage by Committee on the Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage,National Research Council Pdf

In response to a request from Congress, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Department of Homeland Security sponsored a National Academies study to assess the safety and security risks of spent nuclear fuel stored in cooling pools and dry casks at commercial nuclear power plants. The information provided in this book examines the risks of terrorist attacks using these materials for a radiological dispersal device. Safety and Security of Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel is an unclassified public summary of a more detailed classified book. The book finds that successful terrorist attacks on spent fuel pools, though difficult, are possible. A propagating fire in a pool could release large amounts of radioactive material, but rearranging spent fuel in the pool during storage and providing emergency water spray systems would reduce the likelihood of a propagating fire even under severe damage conditions. The book suggests that additional studies are needed to better understand these risks. Although dry casks have advantages over cooling pools, pools are necessary at all operating nuclear power plants to store at least the recently discharged fuel. The book explains it would be difficult for terrorists to steal enough spent fuel to construct a significant radiological dispersal device.

Author : Yury Yudin
Publisher : UN
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822036508042

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Multilateralization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle by Yury Yudin Pdf

Global energy demands are driving a potential expansion in the use of nuclear energy worldwide. It is estimated that the global nuclear power capacity could double by 2030. This could result in dissemination of sensitive nuclear technologies that present obvious risks of proliferation. Certain international institutional mechanisms for controlling access to sensitive materials, facilities and technologies are needed for dealing with this problem. Over the past few years, 12 proposals have been put forward by states, nuclear industry and international organizations, aimed at checking the spread of uranium enrichment and spent fuel reprocessing technologies. This book presents an overview and analysis of these proposals, including an evaluation of the projected international mechanisms.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : National Academies
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Ionizing radiation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037845489

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Risks Associated with Nuclear Power by Anonim Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation,Office for Central Europe and Eurasia,Committee on Issues in Consolidating Spent Nuclear Fuel at International Storage Sites
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309119610

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Setting the Stage for International Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facilities by National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Development, Security, and Cooperation,Office for Central Europe and Eurasia,Committee on Issues in Consolidating Spent Nuclear Fuel at International Storage Sites Pdf

In May 2003, the Russian Academy of Sciences and the National Academies organized an international workshop in Moscow on the scientific issues relevant to the establishment and operation of an international spent nuclear fuel storage facility in Russia. Given the broad international interest in this topic, the academies organized a second international workshop on important issues that were not on the agenda or were not adequately discussed at the first workshop. These issues included international monitoring at the facility, transportation requirements, liability and insurance concerns, and status of Russian legislation and regulations that are important in locating and operating a facility. Relevant experience from Europe, the United States, and Asia was also considered in this 2005 workshop. This book contains the papers presented at the 2005 workshop sessions, as well as proceedings from the 2003 workshop. Together they provide an overview of the issues, and useful background for those organizations and individuals involved in further development of an international spent nuclear fuel storage facility in Russia.

Author : International Atomic Energy Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015033986236

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Nuclear Communications by International Atomic Energy Agency Pdf

The purpose of this handbook is to serve as a guideline in applying good communications practices concerning nuclear fuel cycle facilities. It provides a compact source of information for people involved in plant operation and management and identifies and addresses questions that members of the public may have about different aspects of the nuclear fuel cycle.

Author : International Atomic Energy Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015062419133

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Thorium Fuel Cycle by International Atomic Energy Agency Pdf

Provides a critical review of the thorium fuel cycle: potential benefits and challenges in the thorium fuel cycle, mainly based on the latest developments at the front end of the fuel cycle, applying thorium fuel cycle options, and at the back end of the thorium fuel cycle.

Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Committee on Separations Technology and Transmutation Systems
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1996-02-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309052269

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Nuclear Wastes by National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources,Committee on Separations Technology and Transmutation Systems Pdf

Disposal of radioactive waste from nuclear weapons production and power generation has caused public outcry and political consternation. Nuclear Wastes presents a critical review of some waste management and disposal alternatives to the current national policy of direct disposal of light water reactor spent fuel. The book offers clearcut conclusions for what the nation should do today and what solutions should be explored for tomorrow. The committee examines the currently used "once-through" fuel cycle versus different alternatives of separations and transmutation technology systems, by which hazardous radionuclides are converted to nuclides that are either stable or radioactive with short half-lives. The volume provides detailed findings and conclusions about the status and feasibility of plutonium extraction and more advanced separations technologies, as well as three principal transmutation concepts for commercial reactor spent fuel. The book discusses nuclear proliferation; the U.S. nuclear regulatory structure; issues of health, safety and transportation; the proposed sale of electrical energy as a means of paying for the transmutation system; and other key issues.

Author : Allan S. Krass,Peter Boskma,Boelie Elzen,Wim A. Smit,Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000200546

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Uranium Enrichment and Nuclear Weapon Proliferation by Allan S. Krass,Peter Boskma,Boelie Elzen,Wim A. Smit,Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Pdf

Originally published in 1983, this book presents both the technical and political information necessary to evaluate the emerging threat to world security posed by recent advances in uranium enrichment technology. Uranium enrichment has played a relatively quiet but important role in the history of efforts by a number of nations to acquire nuclear weapons and by a number of others to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons. For many years the uranium enrichment industry was dominated by a single method, gaseous diffusion, which was technically complex, extremely capital-intensive, and highly inefficient in its use of energy. As long as this remained true, only the richest and most technically advanced nations could afford to pursue the enrichment route to weapon acquisition. But during the 1970s this situation changed dramatically. Several new and far more accessible enrichment techniques were developed, stimulated largely by the anticipation of a rapidly growing demand for enrichment services by the world-wide nuclear power industry. This proliferation of new techniques, coupled with the subsequent contraction of the commercial market for enriched uranium, has created a situation in which uranium enrichment technology might well become the most important contributor to further nuclear weapon proliferation. Some of the issues addressed in this book are: A technical analysis of the most important enrichment techniques in a form that is relevant to analysis of proliferation risks; A detailed projection of the world demand for uranium enrichment services; A summary and critique of present institutional non-proliferation arrangements in the world enrichment industry, and An identification of the states most likely to pursue the enrichment route to acquisition of nuclear weapons.

Author : OECD Nuclear Energy Agency
Publisher : Nuclear Energy Agency, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ; Washington, D.C. : OECD Publications and Information Centre
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015032285549

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The Economics of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle by OECD Nuclear Energy Agency Pdf

Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Energy and Environmental Systems,Board on Physics and Astronomy,Panel on the Assessment of Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309270625

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Assessment of Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets by National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Board on Energy and Environmental Systems,Board on Physics and Astronomy,Panel on the Assessment of Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets Pdf

In the fall of 2010, the Office of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Secretary for Science asked for a National Research Council (NRC) committee to investigate the prospects for generating power using inertial confinement fusion (ICF) concepts, acknowledging that a key test of viability for this concept-ignition -could be demonstrated at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in the relatively near term. The committee was asked to provide an unclassified report. However, DOE indicated that to fully assess this topic, the committee's deliberations would have to be informed by the results of some classified experiments and information, particularly in the area of ICF targets and nonproliferation. Thus, the Panel on the Assessment of Inertial Confinement Fusion Targets ("the panel") was assembled, composed of experts able to access the needed information. The panel was charged with advising the Committee on the Prospects for Inertial Confinement Fusion Energy Systems on these issues, both by internal discussion and by this unclassified report. A Panel on Fusion Target Physics ("the panel") will serve as a technical resource to the Committee on Inertial Confinement Energy Systems ("the Committee") and will prepare a report that describes the R&D challenges to providing suitable targets, on the basis of parameters established and provided to the Panel by the Committee. The Panel on Fusion Target Physics will prepare a report that will assess the current performance of fusion targets associated with various ICF concepts in order to understand: 1. The spectrum output; 2. The illumination geometry; 3. The high-gain geometry; and 4. The robustness of the target design. The panel addressed the potential impacts of the use and development of current concepts for Inertial Fusion Energy on the proliferation of nuclear weapons information and technology, as appropriate. The Panel examined technology options, but does not provide recommendations specific to any currently operating or proposed ICF facility.

Author : George A. Gonzalez
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438469812

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Energy, the Modern State, and the American World System by George A. Gonzalez Pdf

Energy and the modern state -- The political economy of energy -- Urban sprawl in the U.S. and the creation of the Hitler regime -- Urban sprawl, the Great Depression, and the start of World War II -- U.S. economic elites, nuclear power, and solar energy -- Global oil politics -- Plutonium and U.S. foreign policy -- Conclusion: energy and the global order

Author : Ian W. Donald
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444319361

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Waste Immobilization in Glass and Ceramic Based Hosts by Ian W. Donald Pdf

The safe storage in glass-based materials of both radioactiveand non-radioactive hazardous wastes is covered in a single book,making it unique Provides a comprehensive and timely reference source at thiscritical time in waste management, including an extensive andup-to-date bibliography in all areas outlined to waste conversionand related technologies, both radioactive and non-radioactive Brings together all aspects of waste vitrification, drawscomparisons between the different types of wastes and treatments,and outlines where lessons learnt in the radioactive waste fieldcan be of benefit in the treatment of non-radioactive wastes