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Product Description: Intended for the non-specialist reader, this report reviews the significant efforts that have been made in recent years to enhance the safe design and operation of nuclear reactors in OECD countries. The reactors in operation today in these countries have widely benefited, in large part through international cooperation, from the lessons learned from past experience and from the polling of resources in safety research and development...read more

Product Description: Featuring the latest research findings and applications, this expert guide covers the fundamentals and advanced principles of aerosol technology, and provides useful problem-solving techniques in air pollution, public health, and industrial hygiene...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The subject of aerosols goes back many years and enters many aspects of science and technology. Optics, heat-transfer, biology, meteorology and pollution are just a few areas where the behaviour of small particles suspended in a gas is of vital importance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The Institution of Nuclear Engineers symposium on 'ALARA': Quantitative Optimization Techniques for Radiation Protection in the Nuclear Industry was held in London on 18 September 1986, and was attended by over 130 delegates from all branches of the nuclear industry...read more

Product Description: Book by Granier, Robert, Gambini, Denis-Jean, Lisker, Roy

The International Basic Safety Standards for Protection against Ionizing Radiation and for the Safety of Radiation Sources (BSS), jointly sponsored, inter alia, by the IAEA, ILO, WHO and PAHO, establish requirements on the legal persons responsible for designing, running and decommissioning practices involving ionizing radiation. These requirements are basic and general in nature. This report is intended to be of assistance to both regulators and users of radiation sources in diagnostic radiology and interventional procedures using X rays in applying the BSS to this practice. Regulators will find it useful for reviewing applications for authorization and for the inspection of the practice. Users of radiation in radiology may follow the guidance provided in order to comply with BSS requirements or equivalent national requirements. Experts recruited on IAEA missions to advise on the implementation of the BSS for the practice of diagnostic radiology and interventional procedures using X rays are expected touse this regulatory guidance report rather than their own national regulations and guidance. --Publisher's description.

Product Description: With wit and thoughtful compassion, Richard Meehan presents one of the most perplexing of contemporary moral predicaments, one that arises in every attempt to assess potentially hazardous technologies. He focuses on the longrunning controversy over suspected earthquake faults near the nation's first corporately owned nuclear test reactor at Vallecitos, California, and uses this account of "the politics of expertise" to probe the nature of scientific truth and its relationship to the determination of public safety...read more

Product Description: From the first real graphic demonstration of it's power, the atom has developed (thankfully) into many less dramatic roles. But not without the same hazards it had before, those of radiation exposure to those who come in contact with it, and contamination of the environment where it may be released...read more