Author: United States. Energy Research and Development AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant Site, Piketon, Ohio
Author: United States. Energy Research and Development AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages : 898
Book Description
Proposed American Centrifuge Plant in Piketon, Ohio
Author: Final Environmental Statement
Author: United States. Energy Research and Development AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diffusion
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant Expansion
Author: Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant Piketon, Ohio
Author: John CardarelliPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indoor air pollution
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Uranium Enrichment and Nuclear Weapon Proliferation
Author: Allan S. KrassPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100020054X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Originally published in 1983, this book presents both the technical and political information necessary to evaluate the emerging threat to world security posed by recent advances in uranium enrichment technology. Uranium enrichment has played a relatively quiet but important role in the history of efforts by a number of nations to acquire nuclear weapons and by a number of others to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons. For many years the uranium enrichment industry was dominated by a single method, gaseous diffusion, which was technically complex, extremely capital-intensive, and highly inefficient in its use of energy. As long as this remained true, only the richest and most technically advanced nations could afford to pursue the enrichment route to weapon acquisition. But during the 1970s this situation changed dramatically. Several new and far more accessible enrichment techniques were developed, stimulated largely by the anticipation of a rapidly growing demand for enrichment services by the world-wide nuclear power industry. This proliferation of new techniques, coupled with the subsequent contraction of the commercial market for enriched uranium, has created a situation in which uranium enrichment technology might well become the most important contributor to further nuclear weapon proliferation. Some of the issues addressed in this book are: A technical analysis of the most important enrichment techniques in a form that is relevant to analysis of proliferation risks; A detailed projection of the world demand for uranium enrichment services; A summary and critique of present institutional non-proliferation arrangements in the world enrichment industry, and An identification of the states most likely to pursue the enrichment route to acquisition of nuclear weapons.
Department of Energy's Management of Health and Safety Issues at Its Gaseous Diffusion Plants in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Piketon, Ohio
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Gaseous diffusion plants
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Construction and Operation of a Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride Conversion Facility at the Paducah, Kentucky, Site
Author: Radioactive Waste Processing and Disposal
Author: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory CommissionPublisher:
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Category : Radioactive waste disposal
Languages : en
Pages : 948
Book Description
Restricted Data
Author: Alex WellersteinPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022602038X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 558
Book Description
"Nuclear weapons, since their conception, have been the subject of secrecy. In the months after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the American scientific establishment, the American government, and the American public all wrestled with what was called the "problem of secrecy," wondering not only whether secrecy was appropriate and effective as a means of controlling this new technology but also whether it was compatible with the country's core values. Out of a messy context of propaganda, confusion, spy scares, and the grave counsel of competing groups of scientists, what historian Alex Wellerstein calls a "new regime of secrecy" was put into place. It was unlike any other previous or since. Nuclear secrets were given their own unique legal designation in American law ("restricted data"), one that operates differently than all other forms of national security classification and exists to this day. Drawing on massive amounts of declassified files, including records released by the government for the first time at the author's request, Restricted Data is a narrative account of nuclear secrecy and the tensions and uncertainty that built as the Cold War continued. In the US, both science and democracy are pitted against nuclear secrecy, and this makes its history uniquely compelling and timely"--