RAND Research Topic: Nuclear Sciences 2012-05-24T14:35:36Z Copyright (c) 2012, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/topics/nuclear-sciences.html Attention to Societal Priorities Can Help Guide Nuclear Waste Management Policy http://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG970.html Nov 15, 2010 Nov 15, 2010 To break the impasse over how to deal with spent nuclear fuel from commercial nuclear power plants policymakers should focus on how various waste management strategies address societal priorities related to nuclear energy. Attention to Societal Priorities Can Help Guide Nuclear Waste Management Policy http://www.rand.org/news/press/2010/11/15.html Nov 15, 2010 Nov 15, 2010 To break the impasse over how to deal with spent nuclear fuel from commercial nuclear power plants, policymakers should focus on how various waste management strategies address societal priorities related to nuclear energy. Policy Implications of Alternative Spent Nuclear Fuel Management Strategies http://www.rand.org/pubs/testimonies/CT352.html Nov 8, 2010 Nov 8, 2010 Testimony presented before the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future on November 15, 2010. Managing Waste With and Without Plutonium Separation http://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P8035.html Dec 31, 1998 Dec 31, 1998 This study examines whether reprocessing and plutonium recycle will make radioactive waste management more effective and economical. PGMs: Changing Weapon Priorities, New Risks, New Opportunities http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19760301.html Dec 31, 1975 Dec 31, 1975 <p>Discusses questions raised by the new wide availability of precision guided munitions (PGMs). Nonnuclear PGMs make smaller states and NATO more defensible, thus short-run stability is increased. PGMs will play an important part in making or countering a threat to use limited nuclear force.</p> Bands of D2 and T2 originating from the lowest excited 1Sigma g states (1s sigma)(2s sigma)1Sigma g and (2p sigma) squared 1Sigma g http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19651101.html Dec 31, 1964 Dec 31, 1964 <p>Bands of the two extensive band systems (1Sigma g) (2s sigma)1Sigma g to (1Sigma g) (2p sigma)1Sigma g and (2p sigma) squared 1Sigma g to (1Sigma g) (2p sigma)1Sigma u of D2 and T2 are presented.</p> Scattering of Light By Light in Plasmas http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19640801.html Dec 31, 1963 Dec 31, 1963 <p>A quantum-mechanical calculation of the scattering rate of light by light in the polarizable medium of a plasma is carried out.</p> Green's Functions for One-Velocity Neutron Transport in a One-Dimensional Slab and Sphere http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19640902.html Dec 31, 1963 Dec 31, 1963 <p>The memorandum presents an exact and efficient method of computing a well-defined resolvent, or Green's function, for one-velocity neutron transport or radiative transfer in a one-dimensional slab or sphere with isotropic scattering.</p> Spectral Analysis of the Anisotropic Neutron Transport Kernel in Slab Geometry with Applications http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP19640301.html Dec 31, 1963 Dec 31, 1963 <p>A spectral analysis of the transport kernel for anisotropic scattering in finite slabs is achieved by first solving a type of generalized scattering problem for a subcritical slab.</p>