Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the first controlled nuclear chain reaction, this book discusses in clearly written language the events that led up to that historical event, the scientific basis...
Determination of Absorbed Dose in Reactors
When Carrie Dickerson first saw a newspaper headline about the electric company's plans to build a nuclear power plant near her home in Oklahoma, she knew little about nuclear reactors...
This report contains the first International Atomic Energy Agency projection of uranium supply and demand to 2050 and provides an understanding of how some alternative uranium supply scenarios could evolve...
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this...
The Role of Nuclear Power Generation in a Comprehensive National Energy Policy: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Energy and Resources...
本书以福岛核事故为鉴,剖析管理缺失、人为疏忽等成因。如今雾霾为害,引起恐慌,郭位教授提醒大家要探讨能源与环保政策走向,以找到能源供应、经济福祉及可靠度与可持续性之间的平衡点。
Provides practical guidance on the application of the dose limitation system contained in the Basic Safety Standards for Radiation Protection, Safety Series No. 9, to operational situations both in large...
Developed to serve as a text for the System Safety and Reliability Analysis course presented to Nuclear Regulatory Commission personnel and contractors. Codifies and systematizes the fault tree approach, a...
Eight scholars examine the range of cultural expressions of atomic energy from the 1940s to the early twenty-first century, including comic books, nuclear landscapes, mushroom-cloud postcards, the Los Alamos suburbs,...