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Category : Nuclear energy
Languages : en
Pages : 636
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The Soviet Journal of Atomic Energy
Author: Producing Power
Author: Sonja D. SchmidPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262538806
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 395
Book Description
An examination of how the technical choices, social hierarchies, economic structures, and political dynamics shaped the Soviet nuclear industry leading up to Chernobyl. The Chernobyl disaster has been variously ascribed to human error, reactor design flaws, and industry mismanagement. Six former Chernobyl employees were convicted of criminal negligence; they defended themselves by pointing to reactor design issues. Other observers blamed the Soviet style of ideologically driven economic and industrial management. In Producing Power, Sonja Schmid draws on interviews with veterans of the Soviet nuclear industry and extensive research in Russian archives as she examines these alternate accounts. Rather than pursue one “definitive” explanation, she investigates how each of these narratives makes sense in its own way and demonstrates that each implies adherence to a particular set of ideas—about high-risk technologies, human-machine interactions, organizational methods for ensuring safety and productivity, and even about the legitimacy of the Soviet state. She also shows how these attitudes shaped, and were shaped by, the Soviet nuclear industry from its very beginnings. Schmid explains that Soviet experts established nuclear power as a driving force of social, not just technical, progress. She examines the Soviet nuclear industry's dual origins in weapons and electrification programs, and she traces the emergence of nuclear power experts as a professional community. Schmid also fundamentally reassesses the design choices for nuclear power reactors in the shadow of the Cold War's arms race. Schmid's account helps us understand how and why a complex sociotechnical system broke down. Chernobyl, while unique and specific to the Soviet experience, can also provide valuable lessons for contemporary nuclear projects.
Soviet Journal of Atomic Energy
Author: Atomic Junction
Author: Abena Dove Osseo-AsarePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108471242
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
An innovative account of the first nuclear programme in independent Africa, centring on the promises and perils of atomic research in Ghana.
Making The Russian Bomb
Author: Thomas B. CochranPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429720580
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
The Natural Resources Defense Council once again provides the definitive account of the current status of Russian nuclear weapons. Taking advantage of previously unavailable information the authors describe the origins, growth, and decline of the massive Soviet nuclear weapons production complex-the places involved in the recent headline-making epi
Nuclear Science Abstracts
Author: The Soviet Journal of Atomic Energy
Author: The Propagation of Gamma Quanta in Matter
Author: O. I. LeipunskiiPublisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 1483135942
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
The Propagation of Gamma Quanta in Matter deals with various problems of the propagation and absorption of gamma quanta in matter, including the occurrence of multiple scattering of radiation. A general account of theoretical methods of solving problems of multiple scattering of quanta is presented, with emphasis on the results of solving such problems. This book consists of three chapters and begins with a discussion on the interaction of gamma radiation with matter; multiple scattering of gamma quanta; and the distribution function and quantities connected with it. The next chapter focuses on the theory of multiple scattering of gamma quanta and covers subjects such as the transport equation and its analytical solution; method of moments; method of random sampling; and method of successive collisions. The last chapter examines the propagation of radiation for various geometrical configurations of the sources and absorbing media, paying particular attention to a point source in a homogeneous medium and on the boundary of two media; unidirectional radiation in a homogeneous medium; reflexion of gamma radiation from the surface of a scattering medium; a plane isotropic source; and a thick radiating layer of an absorbing medium. This monograph will appeal to students as well as physicists and engineers engaged in shield design problems.
Fusion Energy Update
Author: Miscellaneous Publication - National Bureau of Standards
Author: United States. National Bureau of StandardsPublisher:
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Category : Weights and measures
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description