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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... power produced). 7 The same formula can be applied pretty well unchanged to other reactors fuelled with natural uranium, such as the Canadian CANDU design. With other designs of power reactor, the difference between the ... nuclear power as.
Ian Bellany. Where commercial pressures to generate electricity from nuclear power as cheaply as possible have been strong, PWRs have come to dominate. The fact that a PWR requires fuel that has been enriched (an added cost) is more than ...
... nuclear power reactors on a design – the advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) – that required slightly enriched uranium as fuel. As the name suggests, these were updated versions of the Magnox design (fuelled with natural uranium), but ...
... Nuclear Power and Weapons Proliferation, Adelphi Paper No. 130 (London, International Institute for Strategic Studies, 1977), p. 7. The differences between the United States and its natural allies over nuclear proliferation were not ...
... nuclear proliferation lay uncomfortably alongside the competitiveness that characterised the approach of the same countries to the economic exploitation of nuclear power. And imponderables such as national pride in a distinctive ...
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 | |