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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... operation of the reactor, as a fertile material, some thorium will be converted into uranium-233, a uranium isotope similar in properties to uranium-235, which, after chemical separation, could be used mixed with fresh thorium to form ...
... somewhat more frequent refuellings than would normally be dictated by commercial considerations, i.e. where efficient power production was the priority, since in normal operation some plutonium produced is used up in the reactor itself and.
... of enriched uranium from a compact reactor would be a 'one-off' operation, when the reactor was first fuelled, because the reactor would have to be shut down in order to divert fuel already within it and this would be.
... operation permitted a larger portion of the plutonium produced in operation to be consumed inside the reactor, without active recycling. Only if uranium were to become extremely scarce does it seem that the British preference for overt ...
... operation of nuclear reactors. In spite of the presence of critical masses of fissile materials in both bombs and reactors, when reactors go wrong they do not behave like bombs and explode but tend to overheat through some failure 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 | |