Nuclear issues books

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The Myths of August: Personal Exploration of Our Tragic Cold War Affair with the Atom

The Myths of August: Personal Exploration of Our Tragic...

Author: Stewart L. Udall
ISBN: 9780813525464
Format: Paperback
$63.23

In this study, the author describes how since the end of World War II, a small """"cleared"""" elite group of nuclear...  Read More >>

Actinides and the Environment

Actinides and the Environment

Author: P.A. Sterne ,  A. Gonis
ISBN: 9780792349686
Format: Hardback
$789.36

The handling of actinides and actinide-based materials provides significant technological challenges due to the...  Read More >>

Licensed To Kill?: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant

Licensed To Kill?: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission...

Author: Joan Aron ,  E. Leo Slaggie
ISBN: 9780822956495
Format: Paperback
$57.95

Examines the nuclear power plant constructed at Shoreham, New York, and the accumulated miscalculation and mishaps...  Read More >>

Atmospheric Nuclear Tests: Environmental and Human Consequences

Atmospheric Nuclear Tests: Environmental and Human Consequences...

Author: Charles S. Shapiro
ISBN: 9783540638049
Format: Hardback
$409.20

Radionuclides produced by past nuclear weapon test explosions comprise the largest source of anthropogenic radioactivity...  Read More >>

Nuclear Tests: Long-Term Consequences in the Semipalatinsk/Altai Region

Nuclear Tests: Long-Term Consequences in the Semipalatinsk/Altai...

Author: Charles S. Shapiro ,  Valerie I. Kiselev
ISBN: 9783540638056
Format: Hardback
$498.96

This volume focuses on the human exposures and medical effects studies in the SemipaiatinskJ Altai region of Siberia...  Read More >>

Licensed to Kill?: Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant (Pitt Series in Policy & Institutional Studies)

Licensed to Kill?: Nuclear Regulatory Commission and...

Author: Joan Aron ,  E. Leo Slaggie
ISBN: 9780822940449
Format: Hardback
$124.07

Taking the $5.5 billion never-used nuclear power station at Shoreham, Long Island as an example, the author explores...  Read More >>

Absorbed Dose Determination in Photon and Electron Beams

Absorbed Dose Determination in Photon and Electron Beams...

Author: IAEA
ISBN: 9789201005977
Format: Paperback
$56.80

This second edition contains eight additional pages, summarizing recommended changes resulting from a review of...  Read More >>

Radiation and Society, Volume 3: Comprehending Radiation Risk

Radiation and Society, Volume 3: Comprehending Radiation...

Author: IAEA
ISBN: 9789201011978
Format: Paperback
$115.50

Proceedings of an international conference, Paris, 24-28 October 1994. Upon a request by the IAEA, the Swedish Risk...  Read More >>

The Struggle Against the Bomb: Resisting the Bomb: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1954-70

The Struggle Against the Bomb: Resisting the Bomb: A...

Author: Lawrence S. Wittner
ISBN: 9780804729185
Format: Hardback
$143.99

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Nuclear Politics in America: A History and Theory of Government Regulation

Nuclear Politics in America: A History and Theory of...

Author: Robert J. Duffy
ISBN: 9780700608539
Format: Paperback
$59.40

Examining the politics of nuclear power over the last 50 years, this study relates broad trends in American politics...  Read More >>

Kennedy, Macmillan and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate, 1961-63

Kennedy, Macmillan and the Nuclear Test-Ban Debate,...

Author: K. Oliver
ISBN: 9780333696071
Format: Hardback
$290.37

This book provides an account of Anglo-American debates over a foreign-policy issue of the early 1960s. It examines...  Read More >>

ICRP Publication 76: Protection from Potential Exposures: Application to Selected Radiation Sources

ICRP Publication 76: Protection from Potential Exposures:...

Author: ICRP
ISBN: 9780080427447
Format: Paperback
$80.95

Develops the principles outlined in ICRP Publication 60 and elaborates on the concepts in ICRP Publication 64 concerning...  Read More >>

Blessèd Assurance: At Home with the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas

Blessèd Assurance: At Home with the Bomb in Amarillo,...

Author: A. G. Mojtabai
ISBN: 9780815605089
Format: Paperback
$52.67

Amarillo, a Bible-belt city in the Texas Panhandle, is the home of Pantex, the final assembly plant for all nuclear...  Read More >>

INIS: Subject Categories and Scope Descriptions

INIS: Subject Categories and Scope Descriptions

Author: IAEA
ISBN: 9789201033970
Format: Paperback
$30.80

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Pakistan and the Bomb: Public Opinion and Nuclear Options

Pakistan and the Bomb: Public Opinion and Nuclear Options...

Author: David Cortright ,  Samina Ahmed
ISBN: 9780268038199
Format: Paperback
$52.80

Surveying Pakistani public attitudes towards nuclear weapons policy, this volume provides a view of the nuclear...  Read More >>

Radiation in Perspective: Applications, Risks and Protection

Radiation in Perspective: Applications, Risks and Protection...

Author: Nuclear Energy Agency
ISBN: 9789264154834
Format: Paperback
$55.95

This report, intended for the non-specialist reader, aims to contribute to an enlightened debate on the subject...  Read More >>

Environmental Radioactivity from Natural, Industrial and Military Sources: From Natural, Industrial and Military Sources

Environmental Radioactivity from Natural, Industrial...

Author: Merrill Eisenbud (Professor Emeritus, New York University Medical Center) ,  Thomas F. Gesell (Idaho State University, Dept. of Physics)
ISBN: 9780122351549
Format: Hardback
$388.08

Environmental Radioactivity from Natural, Industrial, and Military Sources is a source of information on radiation...  Read More >>

Peace and Security in Northeast Asia: Nuclear Issue and the Korean Peninsula

Peace and Security in Northeast Asia: Nuclear Issue...

Author: Peter Hayes ,  Young Whan Kihl
ISBN: 9781563247903
Format: Paperback
$62.99

This work provides an analysis of North Korea's nuclear controversy from a variety of perspectives, including: nuclear...  Read More >>

Radiation Hazards to Crews of Interplanetary Missions: Biological Issues and Research Strategies

Radiation Hazards to Crews of Interplanetary Missions:...

Author: Task Group on the Biological Effects of Space Radiation ,  Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications
ISBN: 9780309074995
Format: Paperback
$68.64

NASA's long-range plans include possible human exploratory missions to the moon and Mars within the next quarter...  Read More >>

Peace and Security in Northeast Asia: Nuclear Issue and the Korean Peninsula

Peace and Security in Northeast Asia: Nuclear Issue...

Author: Peter Hayes ,  Young Whan Kihl
ISBN: 9781563247897
Format: Hardback
$183.00

This work provides an analysis of North Korea's nuclear controversy from a variety of perspectives, including: nuclear...  Read More >>

Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Energy's Alternatives for the Removal and Disposition of Molten Salt Reactor Experiment Fluoride Salts

Evaluation of the U.S. Department of Energy's Alternatives...

Author: Molten Salt Panel of the Committee on Remediation of Buried and Tank Wastes ,  Commission on Geosciences, Environment and Resources
ISBN: 9780309056847
Format: Paperback
$75.04

Discusses the technical alternatives for cleanup of radioactive fluoride salts that were the fuel for the Molten...  Read More >>

The Pacific Islands: Paths To The Present

The Pacific Islands: Paths To The Present

Author: Evelyn Colbert
ISBN: 9780813332864
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This accessible volume provides a brief introduction to the institutions, policy concerns, and international roles...  Read More >>

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