Management and disposition of excess weapons plutonium [[electronic resource] ] : reactor-related options / / Panel on Reactor-Related Options for the Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium [and] Committee on International Security and Arms Control, National Academy of Sciences |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, 1995 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (436 p.) |
Disciplina | 621.48/38 |
Soggetto topico |
Radioactive waste disposal - Management
Plutonium - Isotopes Nuclear weapons - Environmental aspects - United States Surplus military property - United States - Management |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-19351-4
9786610193516 0-309-58737-9 0-585-02540-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""THE SPENT FUEL STANDARD""; ""Promising and Unpromising Options for Meeting the Spent Fuel Standard""; ""The Leading-Candidate Options: Specific Cases and Their Timing""; ""OTHER ASPECTS OF SECURITY""; ""ECONOMIC COMPARISONS""; ""ENVIRONMENT, SAFETY, AND HEALTH (ES&H)""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""Parallel Project-Oriented Programs""; ""Working with Russia""; ""The Longer Term""; ""REFERENCES""; ""1 Introduction""; ""ROAD MAP OF THE REPORT""; ""UNCERTAINTIES""
""GOALS, TIMING, AND RELATED FACTORS""""The Importance of Timing""; ""Cost and Other Objectives""; ""U.S. AND RUSSIAN PLUTONIUM DISPOSITION: DIFFERENCES AND LINKAGES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""2 Background""; ""PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY OF NUCLEAR FISSION""; ""Fission and Chain Reactions""; ""Reactor Cooling and Electricity Generation""; ""Energetics and Fuel Consumption""; ""Fuel Preparation, Refueling, and Reprocessing""; ""Preparation""; ""Refueling""; ""Reprocessing""; ""Some Differences Between Plutonium- and Uranium-Based Reactor Fuels""; ""Some Relevant Aspects of Weapon Science"" ""CLASSES OF DISPOSITION OPTIONS""""PRESENT AND FUTURE FISSILE MATERIAL STOCKPILES""; ""Excess Weapons Plutonium Stockpiles""; ""Total World Plutonium and HEU Stockpiles""; ""Military Plutonium Stockpiles""; ""Civilian Plutonium Stockpiles""; ""Projected Plutonium Stocks in the Year 2000""; ""HEU Stockpiles""; ""WORLD NUCLEAR-ENERGY SYSTEMS RELEVANT TO PLUTONIUM DISPOSITION""; ""Nuclear-Power Plant Types and Numbers""; ""Civilian Plutonium Separation and Use""; ""REFERENCES""; ""3 Criteria for Comparing Disposition Options""; ""CRITERIA RELATED TO SECURITY AND TIMING"" ""The Context for Security Concerns and Criteria""""Specific Security Concerns and Threat Characteristics""; ""A Matrix Scheme for Characterizing Options""; ""Start Dates""; ""End Dates""; ""Integrated Inventory""; ""Dilution""; ""Intrinsic Barriers""; ""Implementation-Dependent Barriers""; ""The Threat and Vulnerability Interaction""; ""Criteria for Choice""; ""ISSUES AND CRITERIA IN ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVES""; ""Principles and Pitfalls in Cost Comparisons""; ""Inflation and the Real Cost of Money""; ""Property Taxes and Insurance"" ""Costs of Land, Materials, Labor, and Purchased Components""""Indirect Construction Costs""; ""Contingency""; ""Interest on Preoperational Investments""; ""Comprehensiveness""; ""Net Versus Gross Costs and Revenues and the Treatment of Sunk Costs""; ""Operational Lifetime of Facilities""; ""ISSUES AND CRITERIA RELATING TO ENVIRONMENT, SAFETY, AND HEALTH""; ""Proposed ES&H Criteria for Disposition of Weapons Plutonium""; ""Rationale for the Proposed Criteria""; ""The Main ES&H Issues in Weapons Plutonium Disposition""; ""OTHER CONSIDERATIONS""; ""Public Acceptability"" ""Institutional Acceptability"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456006203321 |
Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, 1995 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Management and disposition of excess weapons plutonium [[electronic resource] ] : reactor-related options / / Panel on Reactor-Related Options for the Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium [and] Committee on International Security and Arms Control, National Academy of Sciences |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, 1995 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (436 p.) |
Disciplina | 621.48/38 |
Soggetto topico |
Radioactive waste disposal - Management
Plutonium - Isotopes Nuclear weapons - Environmental aspects - United States Surplus military property - United States - Management |
ISBN |
1-280-19351-4
9786610193516 0-309-58737-9 0-585-02540-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""THE SPENT FUEL STANDARD""; ""Promising and Unpromising Options for Meeting the Spent Fuel Standard""; ""The Leading-Candidate Options: Specific Cases and Their Timing""; ""OTHER ASPECTS OF SECURITY""; ""ECONOMIC COMPARISONS""; ""ENVIRONMENT, SAFETY, AND HEALTH (ES&H)""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""Parallel Project-Oriented Programs""; ""Working with Russia""; ""The Longer Term""; ""REFERENCES""; ""1 Introduction""; ""ROAD MAP OF THE REPORT""; ""UNCERTAINTIES""
""GOALS, TIMING, AND RELATED FACTORS""""The Importance of Timing""; ""Cost and Other Objectives""; ""U.S. AND RUSSIAN PLUTONIUM DISPOSITION: DIFFERENCES AND LINKAGES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""2 Background""; ""PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY OF NUCLEAR FISSION""; ""Fission and Chain Reactions""; ""Reactor Cooling and Electricity Generation""; ""Energetics and Fuel Consumption""; ""Fuel Preparation, Refueling, and Reprocessing""; ""Preparation""; ""Refueling""; ""Reprocessing""; ""Some Differences Between Plutonium- and Uranium-Based Reactor Fuels""; ""Some Relevant Aspects of Weapon Science"" ""CLASSES OF DISPOSITION OPTIONS""""PRESENT AND FUTURE FISSILE MATERIAL STOCKPILES""; ""Excess Weapons Plutonium Stockpiles""; ""Total World Plutonium and HEU Stockpiles""; ""Military Plutonium Stockpiles""; ""Civilian Plutonium Stockpiles""; ""Projected Plutonium Stocks in the Year 2000""; ""HEU Stockpiles""; ""WORLD NUCLEAR-ENERGY SYSTEMS RELEVANT TO PLUTONIUM DISPOSITION""; ""Nuclear-Power Plant Types and Numbers""; ""Civilian Plutonium Separation and Use""; ""REFERENCES""; ""3 Criteria for Comparing Disposition Options""; ""CRITERIA RELATED TO SECURITY AND TIMING"" ""The Context for Security Concerns and Criteria""""Specific Security Concerns and Threat Characteristics""; ""A Matrix Scheme for Characterizing Options""; ""Start Dates""; ""End Dates""; ""Integrated Inventory""; ""Dilution""; ""Intrinsic Barriers""; ""Implementation-Dependent Barriers""; ""The Threat and Vulnerability Interaction""; ""Criteria for Choice""; ""ISSUES AND CRITERIA IN ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVES""; ""Principles and Pitfalls in Cost Comparisons""; ""Inflation and the Real Cost of Money""; ""Property Taxes and Insurance"" ""Costs of Land, Materials, Labor, and Purchased Components""""Indirect Construction Costs""; ""Contingency""; ""Interest on Preoperational Investments""; ""Comprehensiveness""; ""Net Versus Gross Costs and Revenues and the Treatment of Sunk Costs""; ""Operational Lifetime of Facilities""; ""ISSUES AND CRITERIA RELATING TO ENVIRONMENT, SAFETY, AND HEALTH""; ""Proposed ES&H Criteria for Disposition of Weapons Plutonium""; ""Rationale for the Proposed Criteria""; ""The Main ES&H Issues in Weapons Plutonium Disposition""; ""OTHER CONSIDERATIONS""; ""Public Acceptability"" ""Institutional Acceptability"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778764403321 |
Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, 1995 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Management and disposition of excess weapons plutonium : reactor-related options / / Panel on Reactor-Related Options for the Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium [and] Committee on International Security and Arms Control, National Academy of Sciences |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, 1995 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (436 p.) |
Disciplina | 621.48/38 |
Soggetto topico |
Radioactive waste disposal - Management
Plutonium - Isotopes Nuclear weapons - Environmental aspects - United States Surplus military property - United States - Management |
ISBN |
1-280-19351-4
9786610193516 0-309-58737-9 0-585-02540-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Management and Disposition of Excess Weapons Plutonium""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""THE SPENT FUEL STANDARD""; ""Promising and Unpromising Options for Meeting the Spent Fuel Standard""; ""The Leading-Candidate Options: Specific Cases and Their Timing""; ""OTHER ASPECTS OF SECURITY""; ""ECONOMIC COMPARISONS""; ""ENVIRONMENT, SAFETY, AND HEALTH (ES&H)""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""Parallel Project-Oriented Programs""; ""Working with Russia""; ""The Longer Term""; ""REFERENCES""; ""1 Introduction""; ""ROAD MAP OF THE REPORT""; ""UNCERTAINTIES""
""GOALS, TIMING, AND RELATED FACTORS""""The Importance of Timing""; ""Cost and Other Objectives""; ""U.S. AND RUSSIAN PLUTONIUM DISPOSITION: DIFFERENCES AND LINKAGES""; ""REFERENCES""; ""2 Background""; ""PHYSICS AND TECHNOLOGY OF NUCLEAR FISSION""; ""Fission and Chain Reactions""; ""Reactor Cooling and Electricity Generation""; ""Energetics and Fuel Consumption""; ""Fuel Preparation, Refueling, and Reprocessing""; ""Preparation""; ""Refueling""; ""Reprocessing""; ""Some Differences Between Plutonium- and Uranium-Based Reactor Fuels""; ""Some Relevant Aspects of Weapon Science"" ""CLASSES OF DISPOSITION OPTIONS""""PRESENT AND FUTURE FISSILE MATERIAL STOCKPILES""; ""Excess Weapons Plutonium Stockpiles""; ""Total World Plutonium and HEU Stockpiles""; ""Military Plutonium Stockpiles""; ""Civilian Plutonium Stockpiles""; ""Projected Plutonium Stocks in the Year 2000""; ""HEU Stockpiles""; ""WORLD NUCLEAR-ENERGY SYSTEMS RELEVANT TO PLUTONIUM DISPOSITION""; ""Nuclear-Power Plant Types and Numbers""; ""Civilian Plutonium Separation and Use""; ""REFERENCES""; ""3 Criteria for Comparing Disposition Options""; ""CRITERIA RELATED TO SECURITY AND TIMING"" ""The Context for Security Concerns and Criteria""""Specific Security Concerns and Threat Characteristics""; ""A Matrix Scheme for Characterizing Options""; ""Start Dates""; ""End Dates""; ""Integrated Inventory""; ""Dilution""; ""Intrinsic Barriers""; ""Implementation-Dependent Barriers""; ""The Threat and Vulnerability Interaction""; ""Criteria for Choice""; ""ISSUES AND CRITERIA IN ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF ALTERNATIVES""; ""Principles and Pitfalls in Cost Comparisons""; ""Inflation and the Real Cost of Money""; ""Property Taxes and Insurance"" ""Costs of Land, Materials, Labor, and Purchased Components""""Indirect Construction Costs""; ""Contingency""; ""Interest on Preoperational Investments""; ""Comprehensiveness""; ""Net Versus Gross Costs and Revenues and the Treatment of Sunk Costs""; ""Operational Lifetime of Facilities""; ""ISSUES AND CRITERIA RELATING TO ENVIRONMENT, SAFETY, AND HEALTH""; ""Proposed ES&H Criteria for Disposition of Weapons Plutonium""; ""Rationale for the Proposed Criteria""; ""The Main ES&H Issues in Weapons Plutonium Disposition""; ""OTHER CONSIDERATIONS""; ""Public Acceptability"" ""Institutional Acceptability"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817705603321 |
Washington, DC, : National Academy Press, 1995 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Space exploration : DOE could improve planning and communication related to plutonium-238 and radioisotope power systems production challenges: report to congressional requesters |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, DC : , : United States Government Accountability Office, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (iii, 47 pages) : color illustrations |
Soggetto topico |
Isotopic power generators
Radioisotopes in astronautics Plutonium - Isotopes Interagency coordination - United States Interagency coordination |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Space exploration |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910717284403321 |
Washington, DC : , : United States Government Accountability Office, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Space exploration : improved planning and communication needed for plutonium-238 and radioisotope power systems production: testimony before the Subcommittee on Space, Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, House of Representatives / / statement of Shelby S. Oakley |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | [Washington, D.C.] : , : United States Government Accountability Office, , 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (11 pages) : color illustration |
Collana | Testimony |
Soggetto topico |
Plutonium
Plutonium - Isotopes |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Space exploration |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910717284903321 |
[Washington, D.C.] : , : United States Government Accountability Office, , 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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