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Author : U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Nevada Operations Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Nuclear weapons
ISBN : UOM:39015095213768
Author : Reynolds Electrical & Engineering Co. Administrative Publications Section
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Nuclear weapons
ISBN : UOM:39015095257500
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Government publications
ISBN : MINN:31951D00503014U
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Health risk assessment
ISBN : SRLF:AA0000522771
Author : Office of Technology Assessment (OTA),U. S. Government
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1973313685
Three authoritative reports provide unique information about nuclear weapons testing and the verification of nuclear nonproliferation treaties: (1) The Containment of Underground Nuclear Explosions, (2) Seismic Verification of Nuclear Testing Treaties, (3) Environmental Monitoring for Nuclear Safeguards. The Containment of Underground Nuclear Explosions - At a time of continued underground nuclear bomb tests, an assessment of the safety of the process led to this report. This special report reviews the safety of the nuclear testing program and assesses the technical procedures used to test nuclear weapons and ensure that radioactive material produced by test explosions remains contained underground. An overall evaluation considers the acceptability of the remaining risk and discusses reasons for the lack of public confidence. Seismic Verification of Nuclear Testing Treaties - Like an earthquake, the force of an underground nuclear explosion creates seismic waves that travel through the Earth. A satisfactory seismic network to monitor such tests must be able to both detect and identify seismic signals in the presence of "noise," for example, from natural earthquakes. In the case of monitoring a treaty that limits testing below a certain size explosion, the seismic network must also be able to estimate the size with acceptable accuracy. All of this must be done with an assured capability to defeat adequately any credible attempt to evade or spoof the monitoring network. This report addresses the issues of detection, identification, yield estimation, and evasion to arrive at answers to the two critical questions: Down to what size explosion can underground testing be seismically monitored with high confidence? How accurately can the yields of underground explosions be measured? Environmental Monitoring for Nuclear Safeguards - To assure that states are not violating their Non-Proliferation Treaty commitments, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) must also verify that states do not possess covert nuclear facilities-a mission that prior to the 1991 Gulf War, it had neither the political backing nor the resources to conduct. In the report, OTA concluded that providing the IAEA with the resources, the information, and the political support it needs to look for such sites may turn out to be the most important aspect of a reinvigorated safeguards regime. The IAEA recognizes the importance of this new mission and is in the process of assuming it. One of the tools it is exploring to provide some indication of the presence of secret, or undeclared, nuclear activities and facilities is environmental monitoring. Modern sampling and analysis technologies provide powerful tools to detect the presence of characteristic substances that are likely to be emitted by such illicit activities. This background paper examines the prospects for such technologies to improve nuclear safeguards. It concludes that environmental monitoring can greatly increase the ability to detect undeclared activity at declared, or known, sites, and it can significantly increase the chances of detecting and locating undeclared sites.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation, and Federal Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019573380
Author : National Research Council,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on Reviewing and Updating Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309149983
This report reviews and updates the 2002 National Research Council report, Technical Issues Related to the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). This report also assesses various topics, including: the plans to maintain the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile without nuclear-explosion testing; the U.S. capability to detect, locate, and identify nuclear explosions; commitments necessary to sustain the stockpile and the U.S. and international monitoring systems; and potential technical advances countries could achieve through evasive testing and unconstrained testing. Sustaining these technical capabilities will require action by the National Nuclear Security Administration, with the support of others, on a strong scientific and engineering base maintained through a continuing dynamic of experiments linked with analysis, a vigorous surveillance program, adequate ratio of performance margins to uncertainties. This report also emphasizes the use of modernized production facilities and a competent and capable workforce with a broad base of nuclear security expertise.
Author : National Academy of Sciences,Policy and Global Affairs,Committee on International Security and Arms Control,Committee on Technical Issues Related to Ratification of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002-08-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309182935
Drawing upon the considerable existing body of technical material related to the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the National Academy of Sciences reviewed and assessed the key technical issues that arose during the Senate debate over treaty ratification. In particular, these include: (1) the capacity of the United States to maintain confidence in the safety and reliability of its nuclear stockpile in the absence of nuclear testing; (2) the nuclear-test detection capabilities of the international monitoring system (with and without augmentation by national systems and instrumentation in use for scientific purposes, and taking into account the possibilities for decoupling nuclear explosions from surrounding geologic media); and (3) the additions to their nuclear-weapons capabilities that other countries could achieve through nuclear testing at yield levels that might escape detection, and the effect of such additions on the security of the United States.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556031208424
Author : U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Nuclear weapons
ISBN : UCBK:C006193146
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works. Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Radioecology
ISBN : LOC:00186238382
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : United States
ISBN : IND:30000090728399
Author : U.S. Atomic Energy Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Nuclear weapons
ISBN : UCBK:C006193164
Author : National Research Council,Division on Earth and Life Studies,Board on Radiation Effects Research,Committee to Assess the Scientific Information for the Radiation Exposure Screening and Education Program
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309096102
The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) was set up by Congress in 1990 to compensate people who have been diagnosed with specified cancers and chronic diseases that could have resulted from exposure to nuclear-weapons tests at various U.S. test sites. Eligible claimants include civilian onsite participants, downwinders who lived in areas currently designated by RECA, and uranium workers and ore transporters who meet specified residence or exposure criteria. The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), which oversees the screening, education, and referral services program for RECA populations, asked the National Academies to review its program and assess whether new scientific information could be used to improve its program and determine if additional populations or geographic areas should be covered under RECA. The report recommends Congress should establish a new science-based process using a method called "probability of causation/assigned share" (PC/AS) to determine eligibility for compensation. Because fallout may have been higher for people outside RECA-designated areas, the new PC/AS process should apply to all residents of the continental US, Alaska, Hawaii, and overseas US territories who have been diagnosed with specific RECA-compensable diseases and who may have been exposed, even in utero, to radiation from U.S. nuclear-weapons testing fallout. However, because the risks of radiation-induced disease are generally low at the exposure levels of concern in RECA populations, in most cases it is unlikely that exposure to radioactive fallout was a substantial contributing cause of cancer.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation, and Federal Services
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B5142561