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Nuclear energy safety and international cooperation : closing the world's most dangerous reactors
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Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl explosion, disaster struck once more after a tsunami overwhelmed the considerable safety measures at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. However, Fukus...
Twenty-five years after the Chernobyl explosion, disaster struck once more after a tsunami overwhelmed the considerable safety measures at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan. However, Fukushima had put in place a solid containment structure to reduce the spread of radiation in the event of a worst-case scenario; Chernobyl did not. These two incidents highlight the importance of such safety measures, which were critically lacking in an entire class of Soviet-designed reactors. This book examines why five countries operating these dangerous reactors first signed internat
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- Creator
- Spencer Barrett Meredith, III
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2015
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (165 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781317700234, 1317700236, 9781315779690, 1315779692, 9781317700241, 1317700244, 1138282367, 1138018503
- OCLC
- ocn886674606
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
- English
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Political rules and nuclear safety; 2 Ukraine's uneasy past and uncertain future; 3 Armenia at the crossroads; 4 Lithuania reluctant but resolved to obey; 5 Bulgaria, what a strange trip it has been; 6 Overcoming Slovakia's Meciar problem; 7 Delaying disaster; Appendix A: Map of Soviet-designed reactors; Appendix B: Reactor locations, statuses, and designs; Appendix C: Chernobyl Unit 4 after April 1986 disaster; Index
Subjects
- Nuclear power plants -- Former Soviet republics -- Safety measures -- Case studies.
- Nuclear power plants -- Europe, Eastern -- Safety measures -- Case studies.
- Nuclear power plants -- Safety measures -- International cooperation.
- Nuclear power plants -- Safety regulations.
- Nuclear power plants -- Decommissioning -- Case studies.