Curbing the spread of nuclear weaponsWith the 2005 Review Conference of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty in the background, this book provides a fully detailed but accessible and accurate introduction to the technical aspects of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons for the specialist and non-specialist alike. It considers nuclear weapons from varying perspectives, including the technology perspective, which views them as spillovers from nuclear energy programmes; and the theoretical perspective, which looks at the collision between national and international security – the security dilemma – involved in nuclear proliferation. It aims to demonstrate that international security is unlikely to benefit from encouraging the spread of nuclear weapons except in situations where the security complex is already largely nuclearised. |
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... involved. Prototype fast breeders have been developed in France and Japan. Where thorium is used as the fertile material, the story is similar. Thorium, though less widely found in natural deposits than uranium, occurs in particularly ...
... involved is a variant of well understood chemical engineering processes, uranium enrichment was at first, in the middle of the twentieth century, as unfamiliar as an industrial undertaking as were nuclear reactors themselves. Enrichment ...
... involved. Any nuclear programme will create a certain amount of waste, but a 'oncethrough' fuel strategy, which sees spent fuel elements permanently stored in an intact form, produces smaller quantities of waste per megawatt than a fuel ...
... involved, which is only 1.009.18 Accordingly, a very large number of enrichment stages and barriers are needed to produce worthwhile levels of enrichment on a continuous process. About 1,000 stages are required for 3 per cent enrichment ...
... involved need not involve 'trigger list' components – and may therefore fail to attract the attention of exporters alert to the need to attach safeguards (IAEA inspections) to certain materials. And, as we have seen, having a feed of ...
Contents
The International Atomic Energy Agency and safeguards | |
Understanding nuclearfree zones | |
United States policy on nonproliferation and the Nuclear Non | |
Bargaining for test ban treaties | |
A The Baruch Plan | |
B Atoms for Peace | |
Treaty of Tlatelolco documentation and texts | |
E Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean | |