Advanced Security and Safeguarding in the Nuclear Power Industry

Advanced Security and Safeguarding in the Nuclear Power Industry: Impacts of Radiation and Disaster Planning in the Modern World presents an overview of contemporary developments in nuclear energy post-Fukushima. Editor Victor Nian and his team of contributors guide those involved in the nuclear industry on how to re-educate society on the benefits of nuclear energy, working towards improving public perception. This book is particularly insightful to countries with an interest in developing a nuclear industry but who are not yet a nuclear-state, as well as countries where education to improve society’s opinion on nuclear energy is crucial to its future success.

Advanced Security and Safeguarding in the Nuclear Power Industry covers the foundations of nuclear power production as well as the benefits and impacts of radiation to human society, global conventions on safety, security and safeguarding, emergency preparedness and response, and relevant legal frameworks governing nuclear safety.

• Explores applications of nuclear energy beyond power production
• Examines the impacts of, and protection against, severe radiological disasters on society
• Discusses safety and security arrangements at international and national levels

Industry practitioners and nuclear researchers, educators, policy makers, nuclear scientists, nuclear engineers. Those working to re-educate society on nuclear power to improve public perception

1. Recent advances in nuclear power technologies
2. Non-power applications of nuclear energy
3. Radiation hazards from the nuclear fuel cycle
4. Radiation detection and monitoring
5. Health effects of exposure to ionising radiation
6. Protection against severe radiological events
7. Emergency preparedness and response
8. International convention and legal frameworks on nuclear safety, security, and safeguards
9. Civil liability in the event of a severe nuclear disaster
10. Concluding remarks