
Advanced Security and Safeguarding in the Nuclear Power Industry
State of the Art and Future Challenges
Description
Key Features
- The socio-technical and economic risks of civilian and military applications of atomic energy
- Putting into perspective the hazards of radioactive sources and health impacts of exposure to radiation
- Prevention and protection against severe nuclear accidents with a much needed update on lessons learnt from “Fukushima”
- International conventions, treaties, legal frameworks, standards and best practices on “Three S’s”, emergency preparedness and response, and civil liability
- Evolving technological and institutional challenges facing the nuclear power industry in the future
Readership
Nuclear industry practitioners, scientists and engineers, and lawyers, educators, and policy makers.
Table of Contents
1. Recent advances in nuclear power technologies
2. Non-power applications— new missions for nuclear energy to be delivered safely and securely
3. Radiation hazards from the nuclear fuel cycle
4. Health effects of exposure to ionizing radiation
5. Nuclear plant severe accidents: challenges and prevention
6. Nuclear off-site emergency preparedness and response: key concepts and international normative principles
7. International conventions and legal frameworks on nuclear safety, security, and safeguards
8. Civil liability in the event of a severe nuclear disaster
9. Future challenges in safety, security, and safeguards
Product details
- No. of pages: 268
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: August 4, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128182574
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128182567
About the Editor
Victor Nian
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