Tritium On Ice
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Author | : Kenneth D. Bergeron |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2004-09-17 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780262261722 |
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The dangers of a United States government plan to abandon its fifty-year policy of keeping civilian and military uses of nuclear technology separate. 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.
Author | : Maynard M. Miller |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 5 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Glacier Ice |
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Author | : JOHN M. FLOURNOY |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1 |
Release | : 1961 |
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Download Radical Formation and Trapping in Tritium-enriched Ice Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Electron-paramagnetic-resonance (EPR) spectrometry was used to follow quantitatively the formation of trapped OH radicals at 77 K in a sample of ice containing 1 curie/ml of tritium-labeled water as a source of internal beta-radiation. The results are compared with the results of studies of gamma-irradiated ice. The absolute value of the rate constant at look, activation energy for the process, and 3/2-order rate expression were the same as those for gammaproduced irradiated ice. (Author).
Author | : W. D. Bond |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Nuclear explosions |
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Author | : T. G. Kotzer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1999 |
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Download Natural and anthropogenic levels of tritium in a Canadian arctic ice core, agassiz ice cap, ellesmere island, and comparison with other radionuclides Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : David E. Prudic |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Deuterium |
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Download Tritium, Deuterium, and Oxygen-18 in Water Collected from Unsaturated Sediments Near a Low-level Radioactive-waste Burial Site South of Beatty, Nevada Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : Richard Dale Shores |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 102 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Hydrocarbons |
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Download Reactions of Tritium Atoms with Frozen Hydrocarbons Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Ice coring rigs |
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Author | : Seymour Gold |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Carbon |
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Download Analysis of Carbon-14 and Tritium in Reactor Stack Gas Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : International Atomic Energy Agency |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
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Download Safe Handling of Tritium Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This publication contains information on the dosimetry and monitoring of tritium, the use of protective clothing for work with tritium, safe practices in tritium handling laboratories and details of tritium compatible materials. The information has been compiled from experience in the various applications of tritium and should represent valuable source material to all users of tritium, including those involved in fusion R&D.