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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... plant, and using some of that same capacity to provide enriched uranium for reactor fuel for military (naval propulsion) and civilian uses seemed logical. The Americans were not initially sanguine over the question of uranium supplies ...
... plant was built at Capenhurst in Cheshire that produced highly enriched uranium between 1954 and 1961, but it was too small to reproduce the economies of scale available to the Americans. When the USA resumed close nuclear collaboration ...
... a 'natural harbour' kind in favour of a very expensive and elaborate arrangement, using land at Drigg adjacent to the main reprocessing plant at Sellafield. The public sensitivity concerning the safety of nuclear waste and,
... plant. This exposed the tops of some of the fuel elements. At the high temperatures prevailing, the metal cladding of the fuel elements (a zirconium alloy) chemically reacted with steam. This naturally dissolved the fuel cladding ...
... plant in an area of low population density. At the physical level, radioactive iodine is the most dangerous substance released in nuclear reactor accidents, whereas stockpiles of nuclear waste will contain none of this, since it has a ...
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 | |