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In December 1998, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson announced that the U.S. planned to begin producing tritium for its nuclear weapons in commercial nuclear power plants. This decision overturned a fifty-year policy of keeping civilian and military nuclear production processes separate. Tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen, is needed to turn A-bombs into H-bombs, and the commercial nuclear power plants that are to be modified to produce tritium are called ice condensers. This book provides an insider's perspective on how Richardson's decision came about, and why it is dangerous.Kenneth Bergeron shows that the new policy is unwise not only because it undermines the U.S. commitment to curb nuclear weapons proliferation but also because it will exacerbate serious safety problems at these commercial power facilities, which are operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority and are among the most marginal in the United States. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's review of the TVA's request to modify its plants for the new nuclear weapons mission should attract significant attention and opposition."Tritium on Ice is part expose, part history, part science for the lay reader, and part political science. Bergeron's discussion of how the issues of nuclear weapons proliferation and nuclear reactor safety have become intertwined illuminates larger issues about how the federal government does or does not manage technology in the interests of its citizens and calls into question the integrity of government-funded safety assessments in a deregulated economy.

This classic reference combines broad, yet in-depth coverage ofnuclear engineering principles with practical descriptions of theirapplication in the design and operation of nuclear power plants.Published in a two-volume format to accommodate readers' specificinterests, the first volume concentrates on the fundamentals ofnuclear engineering, while the second explores applications and moreadvanced topics. In the second volume, Alexander Sesonske draws onhis extensive experience in nuclear engineering to investigatestate-of-the-art approaches to reactor systems, including computeranalysis, assisting the reader in exploiting the potential ofinformation technology in nuclear engineering. We explore energytransport and fuel management and their roles in cost-effective plantdesign and operation. Sesonske discusses the environmental, health, and safety concerns that are crucial to the continued success andexpansion of nuclear power, illustrating risk analysis methods thatfacilitate reliable assessment and control of hazards. The book alsodetails current and potential innovations in plant design, examiningchallenges likely to be faced by the nuclear power industry inmeeting future energy demands. investigating topics such as reactorsystems, cost-effective fuel management, environmental issues, andthe design of future plants.

Bataan Nuclear Power Plant - Bataan Nuclear Power Plant is a nuclear power plant completed but never fuelled on Bataan Peninsula in the Philippines. As of 2005 it is the Philippines' only attempt at building a nuclear power plant.

Trojan Nuclear Power Plant - Trojan Nuclear Power Plant is a decomissioned nuclear power plant in Rainier, Oregon, USA, and the only nuclear power plant to be built in Oregon. After only sixteen years service it was closed by its operator, Portland General Electric, almost twenty years before its design lifetime.

Seabrook Station nuclear power plant - The Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant, more commonly known as Seabrook Station, is a nuclear power plant located in Seabrook, New Hampshire, approximately 60 mi (100 km) north of Boston and 10 mi (16 km) south of Portsmouth, NH. The station is one of three nuclear generating stations operated primarily by Florida Power & Light (FPL) (the other two are in Florida).

Jervis Bay Nuclear Power Plant - Jervis Bay Nuclear Power Plant was a proposed nuclear power reactor in the Jervis Bay Territory on the south coast of New South Wales. It would have been Australia's first nuclear power plant, and was the only proposal to have received serious consideration as of 2005.

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Nuclear Weapon Proliferation - Nuclear Weapon Proliferation Nuclear Weapons And Strategy Thought to have been marginalized by the end of the Cold War, nuclear weapons have returned to the center of U.S. security concerns. As North Korea have removed the veil of uncertainty by public acknowledgment of its nuclear weapons nuclear weapon proliferation and Iran is thought to seeks a nuclear weapons capability, fears that rogue states nuclear weapon proliferation and non-state actors might acquire nuclear weapon proliferation and use nuclear weapons are ...

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