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1 online resource (493 p.) |
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Routledge Library Editions: Nuclear Security Ser |
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Routledge Library Editions: Nuclear Security Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Preface -- Contents -- Tables and figures -- List of symposium participants -- Abbreviations, acronyms, units and conversions -- Part I Introduction -- Chapter 1. Fuel cycles -- Paper 1. An evolutionary strategy for nuclear power -- I. Introduction -- II. Latent proliferation -- III. lsotopically denatured fuel cycles -- IV. Uranium efficiency -- V. Economics -- VI. A high nuclear growth scenario -- VII. Uranium prices -- VIII . A timetable for the USA -- IX. Nuclear energy for the world |
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X. Summary -- Appendix 1A. Assumptions used in the economic calculations -- Chapter 2. Enrichment -- Paper 2. Practical suggestions for the improvement of proliferation resistance within the enriched uranium fuel cycle -- I. Introduction -- II. Chemical enrichment -- III. Enriched uranium fuels -- Paper 3. Jet nozzle and vortex tube enrichment technologies -- I. Introduction -- II. The technologies -- III. Problems of proliferation of enrichment technologies and facilities -- IV. Conclusions -- Paper 4. Laser separation of isotopes -- I. Basic requirements and classification of methods |
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II. Results for light elements -- III. Results for heavy elements -- IV. Open problems, future prospects -- Chapter 3. Reprocessing -- Paper 5. Proliferation risks associated with different back-end fuel cycles for light water reactors -- I. Introduction -- II. The problem of defining proliferation risk levels -- III. Common assumptions -- IV. The reprocessing route -- V. The once-through cycle -- VI. Summary and conclusions -- Chapter 4. Waste disposal -- Paper 6. Reprocessing and waste management -- I. Introduction -- II. Is reprocessing necessary from a waste management standpoint? |
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III. Reprocessing would not simplify waste management -- IV. Conclusions -- Chapter 5. Physical barriers to proliferation -- Paper 7. Can plutonium be made weapon-proof? -- Part II Introduction -- Chapter 6. Breeders -- Paper 8. The proliferation aspects of breeder deployment -- I. Background -- II. Why the breeder? -- III. The uranium cycle versus the plutonium cycle -- IV. How to strengthen the 'weak points' in the plutonium cycle -- V. Conclusion -- Paper 9. The role of the breeder reactor -- I. Background -- II. Types of nuclear weapon proliferation -- III. Breeder fundamentals |
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IV. The proper role of the breeder reactor -- V. What to do? -- VI. Conclusion -- Chapter 7. Hybrid reactors -- Paper 10. Fusion-fission hybrid reactors -- I. Nuclear fuel supply problems -- II. Hybrid reactors -- Paper 11. Laser fusion and fusion hybrid breeders: proliferation implications -- I. Introduction: energy in the very long term -- II. Fusion as a process -- III. Fusion-fission hybrid: fissile material production -- IV. The question of knowledge and technology -- V. Conclusion -- Part III Introduction -- Chapter 8. Safeguards technology -- Paper 12 IAEA safeguards technology |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000199543 |
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1000199541 |
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