Published 1983
by AERE Harwell in Harwell .
Written in English
Edition Notes
| Statement | Sir Walter Marshall...[et al]. |
| Contributions | Marshall of Goring, Walter Charles Marshall, Baron, 1932-, United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority. |
| ID Numbers | |
|---|---|
| Open Library | OL15114544M |
| ISBN 10 | 0705808777 |
| OCLC/WorldCa | 59124378 |
After discussing the development of a nuclear industry and early 'problems' with industrial use of radium, Mahaffey provides a chronological accounting of disasters or near-disasters including accidents, meltdowns and/or explosions at Canada's Chalk River labratory in , the Naval Proving Ground in , the Windscale (U.K.) Facility in /5(4). The worst nuclear accident to date was the Chernobyl disaster which occurred in in accident killed 31 people directly and damaged approximately $7 billion of property. A study published in by the World Health Organization estimates that there may eventually be up to 4, additional cancer deaths related to the accident among those exposed to . Doug Koplow, in Encyclopedia of Energy, Nuclear Accidents. Nuclear accidents can expose large populations to dangerous levels of radioactivity, triggering enormous liabilities for the firm responsible. Caps on nuclear liability are common throughout the world. The United States, under the Price–Anderson Act, has a two-tier system of . Radiation exposures in accidents - Annex C of UNSCEAR Report (Comprehensive list of accidents with details) "The world's worst nuclear power disasters". Power Technology. .
The book recounts numerous nuclear accidents, the events at site are told in great detail whereas other incidents are summarised. The sheer number of these accidents is really rather terrifying. The tales of sheer courage, moral and physical, on the part of those involved in the big picture and in the nuclear accident, which is so. This is a list of books about nuclear are non-fiction books which relate to uranium mining, nuclear weapons and/or nuclear power.. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer (); The Angry Genie: One Man's Walk Through the Nuclear Age (); The Atom Besieged: Extraparliamentary Dissent in France and Germany . A nuclear weapon (also called an atom bomb, nuke, atomic bomb, nuclear warhead, A-bomb, or nuclear bomb) is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission (fission bomb) or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions (thermonuclear bomb).Both bomb types release large quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of . Accidents Will Happen: The Case Against Nuclear Power (Perennial library ; P ) by Environmental Action Foundation., Lee Stephenson, George R. Zachar and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at
Three reactors suffered nuclear meltdowns, releasing significant amounts of radiation and stunning a world that had been led to believe that nuclear power was safe. Following the accident, a task force of senior staff at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) issued a page report, detailing their recommendations for protecting the U.S. J-value assessment of relocation measures following the nuclear power plant accidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi I. Waddington, P.J. . Revealed in this book is one of American history’s best-kept secrets: the world’s first nuclear reactor accident to claim fatalities happened on United States soil. Chronicled here for the first time is the strange tale of SL-1, a military test reactor located in Idaho’s Lost River Desert that exploded on the night of January 3, One of the main reasons people are fearful of nuclear power is the possibility of accidents. This fear is generally fueled by three high-profile nuclear accidents: Three Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima Daiichi. Each of these accidents involved a partial or full core meltdown. A core meltdown is when the reactor’s core severely overheats.
