Light Water Reactors (LWRs) poses the most risk to the public. LWRs are the predominant nuclear reactor in use around the world. This book emphasizes the prevention & management of severe accidents, in order to teach nuclear professionals how to mitigate potential risks to the public to the maximum extent possible. ...

This textbook aims at a simple, intuitive approach to the resurgent field of nuclear structure physics. The approach is based on physics ideas & themes that allow a systematic development of the subject with a minimum of formulas & with the idea that most results of nuclear models can be obtained or motivated without detailed calculations. ...

A collection of archive information films revealing how the British government communicated the nuclear threat to its people over four decades from the 1950s to the 1980s. Films are: ' The Waking Point' (1951), ' Civil Defence Newsreels' (1951/1952), ' Civil Defence Get New Gear' (1955), ' Defence Sense' (1956), ' Atomic Attack' (1958), ' The Warden, His Duties & Training' (1961), ' The Warden & the Householder' (1961), ' Bertrand Russell Has Fear of Nuclear War' (1961), ' Hole in the Ground' (1962), '700 Practice Civil Defence' (1962), ' Seven Civil Defence Warning Films' (1964), ' Care of the Homeless' (1965), ' Sound an Alarm' (1971), ' Protect & Survive' (1976) & ' Should Disaster Strike' (1987). ...

Management of civilian radioactive waste has posed difficult issues for Congress since the beginning of the nuclear power industry in the 1950s. This title examines the key attributes, challenges, alternatives, & costs of the Yucca Mountain repository, & the liability issues of nuclear waste disposal. ...