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Nuclear
Power Reactors
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How
power reactors work in brief |
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Pressurised
Water Reactor |
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The
PWR is the most popular reactor in use today |
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Boiling
Water Reactor |
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The
second most popular reactor design and how it differs from
the PWR |
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Pressurised
Heavy Water Reactor |
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Outlines
the design of the pressurised heavy water reactor |
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RBMK
Light Water Graphite Reactor |
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The
original design of the RBMK and changes made in the light
of the Chernobyl accident |
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Nuclear
Fuel Cycle |
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Outlines
the processes which together form the nuclear fuel cycle
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Uranium |
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Uranium,
its uses, history, properties, sources and safety |
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Plutonium |
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Plutonium
does not deserve its reputation as the most hazardous material
known to man |
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Uranium
Resources |
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How
abundant is the fuel for nuclear reactors? |
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Zirconium |
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The
use of zirconium in nuclear reactor components |
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Recycling |
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Outlines
the processes necessary to utilise the energy potential
of spent nuclear fuel |
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Mixed
Oxide (MOX) Fuel |
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What
is MOX fuel, and where is it being used? |
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Nuclear
Materials Balance |
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Inputs
and outputs for a typical 1000 MWe reactor |
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Safety
and environmental aspects
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Ensuring
safety and protecting the environment are vital at all stages
of the nuclear fuel cycle; this set of factsheets describes
the safety and environmental aspects of each step |
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Uranium
Mining and Milling |
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UF6
Conversion |
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Uranium
Enrichment |
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Nuclear
Fuel Fabrication |
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Transport
of Nuclear Materials |
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Nuclear
Power Generation |
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Spent
Fuel Storage |
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Recycling
Nuclear Materials |
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Radioactive
Waste Management |
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Nuclear
accidents
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The
Accident at Three Mile Island |
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A
simplified sequence of the events at the Three Mile Island
nuclear power station in March 1979 |
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The
Accident at Chernobyl |
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The
event sequence during the Chernobyl accident of April 1986 |
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Radiation
Accident at Tokai |
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Details
of the radiation accident in Japan in September 1999 |
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Radiation |
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What
is radiation? |
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Public
Dose Limits |
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Radiation
protection for the general public |
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Occupational
Dose Limits |
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Radiation
protection for nuclear industry workers |
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Safeguards
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International
initiatives designed to prevent the proliferation of nuclear
weapons |
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Transport
is a vital step in the nuclear fuel cycle, and this set
of factsheets explains what is involved in transporting
various types of nuclear material
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Uranium
Ore |
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Uranium
Ore Concetrate |
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Natural
Uranium Hexafluoride |
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Spent
Fuel |
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Mixed
Oxide Fuel Assemblies |
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Low
Level Waste and Intermediate Level Waste |
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Vitrified
High Level Waste |
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Plutonium |
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Uranium
Fuel Assemblies |
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Radioactive
waste management
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Radioactive
Waste: an Introduction |
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Background
on the types and arisings of radioactive wastes |
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Safety
Standards in Radioactive Waste Management |
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The
various internationally agreed standards for the safety
of radioactive waste management |
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The
Joint Convention on Radioactive Waste |
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The
Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management
and the Safety of Radioactive Waste Mangement |
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Management
of Uranium Mining and Milling Wastes |
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Management
of Operational Waste from Nuclear Power Plants |
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Management
of Spent Nuclear Fuel |
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Management
of Radioactive Waste from Reprocessing |
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