Supplying The Nuclear Arsenal
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Supplying The Nuclear Arsenal
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Author : Rodney P. Carlisle
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2020-02-04
Supplying The Nuclear Arsenal written by Rodney P. Carlisle and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-04 with History categories.
Originally published in 1996. Although the history of commercial-power nuclear reactors is well known, the story of the government reactors that produce weapons-grade plutonium and tritium has been shrouded in secrecy. Supplying the Nuclear Arsenal looks at the origin and development of these production reactors, Rodney Carlisle and Joan Zenzen describe a fifty-year government effort no less complex, expensive, and technologically demanding than the Polaris or Apollo programs—yet one about which most Americans know virtually nothing. Carlisle and Zenzen describe the evolution of the early reactors, the atomic weapons establishment that surrounded them, and the sometimes bitter struggles between business and political constituencies for their share of "nuclear pork." They show how, since the 1980s, aging production reactors have increased the risk of radioactive contamination of the atmosphere and water table. And they describe how the Department of Energy mounted a massive effort to find the right design for a new generation of reactors, only to abandon that effort with the end of the Cold War. Today, all American production reactors remain closed. Due to short half-life, the nation's supply of tritium, crucial to modern weapons, is rapidly dwindling. As countries like Iraq and North Korea threaten to join the nuclear club, the authors contend, the United States needs to revitalize tritium production capacity in order to maintain a viable nuclear deterrent. Meanwhile, as slowly decaying artifacts of the Cold War, the closed production reactors at Hanford, Washington, and Savannah River, South Carolina, loom ominously over the landscape.
Supplying The Nuclear Arsenal
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Author : Rodney P. Carlisle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1996
Supplying The Nuclear Arsenal written by Rodney P. Carlisle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Nuclear fuels categories.
Internationalization To Prevent The Spread Of Nuclear Weapons
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Author : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
language : en
Publisher: Crane Russak, Incorporated
Release Date : 1980
Internationalization To Prevent The Spread Of Nuclear Weapons written by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute and has been published by Crane Russak, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Political Science categories.
Plutonium For Japan S Nuclear Reactors
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Author : Kenneth A. Solomon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Plutonium For Japan S Nuclear Reactors written by Kenneth A. Solomon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Political Science categories.
Adequate supplies of electricity have allowed Japan to make impressive economic advances. But Japan can sustain these advances only with assured supplies of fuel. To this end, it diversifies both its type of power producing facilities and its sources of fuel. Nuclear power provides Japan 30% of its electricity today and by the end of the century it will grow to 40%. Japan is facing both an opportunity and a dilemma. Japan's opportunity to convert its nuclear power from the conventional uranium based fuel to the more expensive mix of plutonium and uranium fuel extends its fuel supply by up to ten years at a substantial dollar cost as well as a potential nuclear weapons proliferation cost. This study estimates that if Japan elects to fuel its reactors with mixed plutonium and uranium oxide the dollar cost alone would run from $135 million to $800 million per year over the conventional uranium fuel. This cost is compounded by the fact that plutonium - unlike reactor grade uranium - is weapons usable. Plutonium in the hands of Japan may attract other countries to also want plutonium. This study concludes that one means of assuring energy and minimizing the potential for weapons proliferation is to develop an international nuclear fuel bank that could supply countries with energy credits.
Nuclear Weapons
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Author : United States. General Accounting Office
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Nuclear Weapons written by United States. General Accounting Office and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Nuclear reactors categories.
Uranium Enrichment And Nuclear Weapon Proliferation
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Author : Allan S. Krass
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-11-20
Uranium Enrichment And Nuclear Weapon Proliferation written by Allan S. Krass and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-20 with Political Science categories.
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.
Nuclear Implosions
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Author : Daniel Pope
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-02-04
Nuclear Implosions written by Daniel Pope and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-04 with Business & Economics categories.
This book follows a small public agency in Washington State that undertook one of the most ambitious construction projects in the nation in the 1970s: the building of five large nuclear power plants. By 1983, delays and cost overruns, along with slowed growth of electricity demand, led to cancellation of two plants and a construction halt on two others. Moreover, the agency defaulted on $2.25 billion of municipal bonds, leading to a monumental court case that took nearly a decade to resolve fully. Daniel Pope sets this in the context of the postwar boom's ending, the energy shocks of the 1970s, a new restraint in forecasting demand, and shifting patterns of municipal finance. Nuclear Implosions also traces the entangling alliance between civilian nuclear energy and nuclear weapons and recounts a telling example of how the law has become a primary method of resolving disputes in a litigious society.
Taiwan S Former Nuclear Weapons Program
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Author : Andrea Stricker
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2018-11-14
Taiwan S Former Nuclear Weapons Program written by Andrea Stricker and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-14 with Nuclear nonproliferation categories.
Thirty years ago, in 1988, the United States secretly moved to end once and for all Taiwan's nuclear weapons program, just as it was nearing the point of being able to rapidly break out to build nuclear weapons. Because intense secrecy has followed Taiwan's nuclear weapons program and its demise, this book is the first account of that program's history and dismantlement. Taiwan's nuclear weapons program made more progress and was working on much more sophisticated nuclear weapons than publicly recognized. It came dangerously close to fruition. Taipei excelled at the misuse of civilian nuclear programs to seek nuclear weapons and implemented capabilities to significantly reduce the time needed to build them, following a decision to do so. Despite Taiwan's efforts to hide these activities, the United States was able to gather incriminating evidence that allowed it to act, effectively denuclearizing a dangerous, destabilizing program, that if left unchecked, could have set up a potentially disastrous confrontation with the People's Republic of China (PRC). The Taiwan case is rich in findings for addressing today's nuclear proliferation challenges.
Savannah River Site At Fifty
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Author : Mary Beth Reed
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Savannah River Site At Fifty written by Mary Beth Reed and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Government publications categories.
Transparency In Nuclear Warheads And Materials
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Author : Nicholas Zarimpas
language : en
Publisher: Sipri Monograph
Release Date : 2003
Transparency In Nuclear Warheads And Materials written by Nicholas Zarimpas and has been published by Sipri Monograph this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
These studies address the technical means and procedures for establishing transparency in nuclear warheads and materials in the nuclear weapons states.