Research Catalog

Title

Controlling the atom in the 21st century / edited by David P. O'Very, Christopher E. Paine, and Dan W. Reicher.

Publication

Boulder : Westview Press, 1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• O'Very, David P.
• Paine, Christopher E.
• Reicher, Dan W.

Description

xiv, 397 pages; 23 cm

Summary

Bringing together a diverse group of experts, this book examines the critical problems involved in the effective control of military and civilian applications of nuclear energy. The solutions proposed differ significantly from the arrangements and practices established during the Cold War era. The authors offer pragmatic approaches that should minimize environmental and security risks from nuclear energy while ensuring an open, fair-minded assessment of its benefits. Five decades after the first splitting of the atom, the military and civilian applications of nuclear energy have reached a critical juncture, providing an unprecedented opportunity to reexamine both the national and international mechanisms for controlling nuclear energy. The disintegration of the Soviet Union has eliminated the need to maintain and modernize a large nuclear arsenal and sharpened the focus on horizontal proliferation problems, such as Iraqʹs clandestine nuclear weapons program, civil plutonium production, the potential loss of central Russian control over the former Soviet nuclear arsenal, and North Koreas threatened defection from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. In addition, both the U.S. and Russia are faced with the staggering environmental legacy of fifty years of nuclear weapons production. -- Review from http://www.amazon.co.uk (Oct. 19, 2012).

Subject

• Nuclear energy > Law and legislation
• Nuclear power plants > Licenses
• Nuclear nonproliferation
• Kernwaffe
• Nonproliferation
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Kernkraftwerk
• Atomrecht
• Radioaktiver Abfall
• Entsorgung

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Strengthening international controls on the military applications of nuclear energy : technical and political aspects of a universal Nuclear Explosive Material Cutoff and Control (NEMC2) system / Christopher E. Paine and Thomas B. Cochran -- Public access to nuclear energy and weapons information / Allan Robert Adler -- Managing change in the U.S. nuclear weapons complex / Kevin T. Knobloch -- The role of the states in nuclear regulation / Dan M. Berkovitz -- The role of the public in the licensing of nuclear power plants ; Public participation in the oversight of nuclear power plant operations / Eric Glitzenstein -- The re-licensing of nuclear power plants / Diane Curran -- Nuclear oversight by Congress / Henry R. Myers -- An investment community perspective on nuclear power / Paul Parshley -- The regulation of radioactive pollution / David P. O'Very -- Decommissioning nuclear power plants / Martin J. Pasqualetti -- The disposal of high-level nuclear waste / Terry R. Lash.

ISBN

• 0813388163
• 9780813388168

LCCN

93039042

OCLC

• ocm29224650
• 29224650
• SCSB-2043459

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library