The Department of Energy (DOE)proposes under the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) to build facilities to begin recycling the nation's comme...

The Hanford Site, in south-eastern Washington State, is a former nuclear defence production facility. A groundwater plume containing uranium, origi...

After several decades of decline and disfavour, nuclear power is attracting renewed interest. New permit applications for 30 reactors have been fil...

A nuclear detonation in the United States is one of the most catastrophic incidents imaginable. While the United States Government is working domes...

Bahman Zohuri, PhD opens this book by first describing the history of nuclear power plants and then supplements this information by making a case f...

The earthquake and resulting tsunami that severely damaged Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on March 11, 2011, raised questions in Con...

Nuclear energy is the energy that is directly released from the atomic nucleus. The conversion of nuclear mass to energy is consistent with the mas...

Global inventories of spent nuclear fuel are expected to increase substantially in future years. Because of the widely accepted international princ...

Nuclear materials include materials relevant to nuclear fission and fusion reactors and high power accelerator technologies, and closely related as...

This book provides important research in materials relevant to nuclear fission and fusion reactors and high power accelerator technologies, and in ...

This book examines nuclear oversight, planning and safety efforts at U.S. nuclear power reactors across the United States. The U.S. Nuclear Regulat...

This book is concerned about the adequacy of electricity supply and the impact of greenhouse-gas emissions on the environment have prompted policym...

A major concern about the global expansion of nuclear power is the potential spread of nuclear fuel cycle technology (particularly uranium enrichme...

Nuclear reactors play a key role in 21st Century energy production. This book provides critical research in both fission and fusion energy producti...

The March 2011 accident at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant led to a worldwide review of nuclear power programs. NRC licenses and over...

Questions regarding the advancement of the technology for production and regeneration of nuclear fuel and to the further perfection of the nuclear ...

Questions regarding the advancement of the technology for production and regeneration of nuclear fuel and to the further perfection of the nuclear ...

The importance of the radioactive minerals occurring at the Poços de Caldas plateau for the establishment of the Brazilian Nuclear Energy Program h...

This book explores the topic of nuclear power in the United States. Nearly three decades after the most recent order was placed for a new nuclear p...

Many contemporary uses of uranium exploit its unique nuclear properties. Uranium-235 has the distinction of being the only naturally occurring fiss...