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This Safety Guide, prepared jointly by the International Atomic
Energy Agency (IAEA) and the International Labour Organization
(ILO), provides guidance on fulfilling the requirements of the
International Basic Safety Standards (IAEA Safety Standards Series
No. GSR Part 3) with respect to occupational exposure. It provides
general guidance on the development of occupational radiation
protection programmes as appropriate for the sources of radiation
likely to be encountered in the workplaces in question to fulfil
the management's responsibility for protection and safety. Detailed
guidance is also provided on the monitoring and assessment of
workers' exposure due to external radiation sources and from
intakes of radionuclides. The Safety Guide reflects the current
internationally accepted principles and recommended good practices
in occupational radiation protection, with account taken of the
conceptual changes and technological enhancements that have
occurred over the past decade.
The identification and assessment of threats provides an essential
basis for the selection, design, and implementation of nuclear
security measures. For nuclear material and other radioactive
material that is under regulatory control, and associated
facilities and activities, the results of this identification and
assessment are expressed as a design basis threat or representative
threat statement describing the intentions and capabilities of
potential adversaries against which the materials and associated
facilities and activities are to be protected. An Implementing
Guide was issued in 2009 under the title of Development, Use and
Maintenance of the Design Basis Threat which was updated and
revised. The result of this revision is the current publication. It
provides a stepbystep methodology for conducting a national nuclear
security threat assessment including both physical and computer
security aspects, and for the development, use and maintenance of
design basis threats and representative threat statements.
Since the 1970s, the IAEA has been involved in the analysis of fuel
failures in water cooled reactors in normal (nonaccident)
operational conditions. This updated version of IAEA Nuclear Energy
Series No. NFT2.1 provides information on all aspects of fuel
failures in current nuclear power plant operations. It summarizes
fuel failure occurrences and their mechanisms and root causes, as
well as fuel failure prevention and management in plant operation
for 97% of light and heavy water cooled nuclear power units
operated worldwide during the period 2006-2015. Data on fuel
failures from 1987 to 2006 extracted from three previous IAEA fuel
failure reports are included and analysed in the present
publication, together with the 2006-2015 fuel failure data, to
reveal long term tendencies in fuel performance. In addition to
fuel rod leakers, fuel structural damages and other fuel assembly
issues are considered in the report.
Nuclear astrophysics is, in essence, a science that attempts to
understand and explain the physical universe beyond the Earth by
studying its smallest particles. "Cauldrons in the Cosmos," by
Claus E. Rolfs and William S. Rodney, serves as a basic
introduction to these endeavors. From the major discoveries in the
field to a discussion of the makeup of stars to an explanation of
standard lab techniques, this text provides students and scientists
alike a thorough and fascinating survey of the accomplishments,
goals, and methods of nuclear astrophysics. A classic in its field,
"Cauldrons in the Cosmos" will surely remain an important reference
in nuclear astrophysics for years to come.
"One could not wish for a better account of the current state of
knowledge (and uncertainty) about nuclear reactions in stars."--B.
E. J. Pagel, "Nature
""Written in an informal style that those uninitiated into the
jargon of nuclear astrophysics and astronomy will find readable and
illuminating. . . . A useful and long-awaited introduction to
nuclear astrophysics."--G. J. Mathews, "Science
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The Working Group "0ffshore Nuclear Power Plants" was established
by the Commission of the European Communities in 1971. At that time
it appeared that the option offered by creating new sites offshore
should be explored. The present development of nuclear power has
not, however, reached the stage where offs hore siting can be
considered as a near or medium term proposition. The purpose of
this report is to summarize the state of the art for the provision
of floating or fixed structures, or man-made islands of the size
needed for the construction of nuclear and other power stations. It
describes the main factors which must be taken into account in the
design and location of such islands and provides an indication of
feasibility and cost for each design at the present time. It deals
mainly with the civil engineering problems and not other major
factors, such as the law of the sea, the rights of countries to
locate nuclear establishments off their coast, their safety,
security, the energy connection with the mainland, the marine
ecology, the logistics, etc. ; many of these problems are directly
related to the site and have major economic and political
implications. By studying application examples the Working Group
has occupied itself with these other factors.
Lecture Notes for the International Winter School in Nuclear
Physics, held at Beijing (Peking), The People's Republic of China,
December 22, 1980 - January 9, 1981
Lecture Notes for the International Winter School in Nuclear
Physics, held at Beijing (Peking), The People's Republic of China,
December 22, 1980 - January 9, 1981
International Workshop on Resonances in Heavy Ion Collisions
Sponsored by Comitato Nazionale Energia Nucleare, Research Dep. RIT
The study which fonns the second volume of this series deals with
the interplay of groups and composite particle theory in nuclei.
Three main branches of ideas are de- veloped and linked with
composite particle theory: the pennutational structure of the
nuclear fermion system, the classification scheme based on the
orbital partition and the associated supennuitiplets, and the
representation in state space of geometric trans- fonnations in
classical phase space. One of the authors (p. K.) had the
opportunity to present some of the ideas under- lying this work at
the 15th Solvay Conference on Symmetry Properties of Nuclei in
1970. Since this time, the authors continued their joint effort to
decipher the conceptual struc- ture of composite particle theory in
tenns of groups and their representations. The pattern of
connections is fully developed in the present study. The
applications are carried to the points where the impact of group
theory may be recognized. The range of applications in our opinion
goes far beyond these points.
Resonances are a common feature of many systems in nature. They reveal much about the structure of such systems. This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of a similar phenomenon in atomic nuclei, the giant resonances. It describes experimental facts, how these are obtained, and how they fit into existing theoretical models. It also includes a short history and an overview of the main achievements in this field.
The present European success in neutron physics and in neutron
scattering applied to condensed matter research rests upon the
subtle interaction of new instrument requirements for an expanding
scientific program in Physics, Chemistry and Biology and the
programme of invention of neutron instruments, which has long been
a characteristic of neutron physics, particularly in Germany.
Although this distinction between the role played by the instrument
demands of "problem oriented" scientists and the interest of
"instrument inventors" is somewhat facile, I believe it to be
worthwhile since progress needs both components; many of the uses
of a new method only becoming evident as it is improved under the
conditions of real experiment. The Institut Laue Langevin in
Grenoble brings both streams together and a measure of its
importance on the or1d scene can be seen in Figure 1, which charts
the world publications in Neutron Physics and Neutron Scattering
since the neutron's discovery. This figure also clearly shows the
correlation between innovation (and publication) in neutron science
and the flux of neutrons available. hi1st in 1936 it was possible
to demonstrate the wave properties and diffraction of
neutrons(1)(2) it was not until 1944 with the "pile" CP3 at Argonne
National Laboratory that intensities were high enough to stimulate
the construction of the first neutron diffractometer and
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A Conference is one thing, its Proceedings is another issue. The
1976 Neutrino Conference at Aachen met with friendly approval,
within and beyond the brotherhood of neutrino physicists. The
generally well informed "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" spoke of a
"Sternstunde" of Science . . . And even without invoking the stars,
we may register with some satisfaction that several important
developments came to an end. "Charm is found " - hailed Alvaro de
Rujula the most spectacular event of the Conference. The organizers
held this opinion even before, as is evidenced by the Conference
badge: a little aluminum tetra hedron, symbolizing the four quarks,
and fastened by a three-coloured string. In fact, the history of
the discovery of charm goes a long way back, perhaps even back to
the first CERN neutrino experiment in 1963/64, when indications of
charged lepton pairs were recognized - long before charm was taken
serious. Muon pairs were established by the
Harvard-Pennsylvania-Wisconsin Group in 1974, and correctly inter
preted in terms of charm. At the Paris Neutrino Meeting in 1975 the
BNL event came, confirming the con nection with strangeness and
suggesting charm production to occur at quite low energies."
This Safety Guide provides recommendations and guidance on
achieving and demonstrating compliance with IAEA Safety Standards
Series No. SSR-6 (Rev. 1), Regulations for the Safe Transport of
Radioactive Material (2018 Edition), which establishes the
requirements to be applied to the national and international
transport of radioactive material. Transport is deemed to comprise
all operations and conditions associated with and involved in the
movement of radioactive material, including the design, fabrication
and maintenance of packaging, and the preparation, consigning,
handling, carriage, storage in transit, shipment after storage and
receipt at the final destination of packages. The Advisory Material
is not a stand-alone text. It is to be used concurrently as a
companion to the IAEA Safety Standards Series No. SSR-6 (Rev. 1)
and each paragraph of this guide is numbered correspondingly to the
paragraph of the Regulations to which it most directly relates.
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