Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1 Preliminary considerations: reactor types and characteristics
  • chapter 2 The world pattern of nuclear power production
  • chapter 3 The USA and Canada
  • chapter 4 Western Europe
  • chapter 5 The USSR and CMEA countries of Eastern Europe
  • chapter 6 East Asia
  • chapter 7 From uranium ore to fuel element: the front-endof the nuclear fuel cycle
  • chapter 8 The nature of the hazards: radiation and its biological effects
  • chapter 9 Money costs of nuclear power and their locational effects
  • chapter 10 Safety issues in the siting of nuclear power plants
  • chapter 11 Siting in relation to exceptional environmental events:earthquakes and faults, tornadoes, tsunamis and floods
  • chapter 12 The back-end of the nuclear fuel cycle: storing andtransporting radioactive waste
  • chapter 13 Prospects for the future.