The characteristics and problems of cavity reactors with the fuel in the solid, solid/liquid, solid/liquid/gas, liquid, and liquid/gas states are explored analytically in an effort to uncover interesting operational regimes.
A survey of the literature for an answer to the question: How long and under what conditions can POL be stored at a given level of quality? Information about the type of storage and handling facilities that will allow a particular quality of fuel to...
An analysis of the problems that have arisen in connection with civilian nuclear power, the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspection.
This perspective on the dangers of destruction promises no quick and final solution. It involves discriminating acts of choice in both the military and civilian fields of nuclear energy for the indefinite future. And it does not minimize the dangers.
A contribution to the search for quarks, fundamental physical particles hypothesized by Murray Gell-Mann that carry an electric charge a third or two-thirds that of the proton and arrive on earth via cosmic rays.
Negatively charged quarks and antiquarks may catalyze fusion in light elements. In build-up of the elements by quark catalysis the well-known difficulty at atomic number 5 does not occur. The solar energy output could be provided by quark catalysis...
Current interest in acquiring facilities for the production of uranium-235 for nuclear power plants, in addition to the desire of U.S. industry to acquire private ownership and operation of government uranium enrichment facilities, makes it imperativ...
An updating of P-3302 and Congressional testimony by the authors against the Grand Canyon dam projects. Calculation methods have been changed to credit the proposed alternative nuclear power plants with the Federal Power Commission's regular energy ...
Because fusion neutrons can produce fission in U238, 100 tons of fission energy can be produced with a blast containment problem of only one ton as opposed to 20 tons in a pure-fusion system. Compared with a nuclear fission reactor, this system woul...
Comments on the feasibility of using small, controlled thermonuclear fusion explosions to generate cheap electric power. Simple calculations show that, even without considering the additional costs of building reactors designed to accommodate repeat...
Clandestine diversion of nuclear material in strategic quantities is impractical and, since alternative methods of acquiring it exist, refinement of safeguard techniques would not solve the problem. Our funds and effort should be directed toward res...
One of a series on the Grand Canyon dam controversy, this paper analyzes the validity of a comparison of nuclear and hydroelectric power plants made for the Arizona Interstate Stream Commission by Ralph M. Parsons Co. in 1966. The Parsons study assu...
A presentation of results for the spatial and time-dependence of neutron capture from a representative fission weapon spectrum and a 14 Mev monoenergetic source at altitudes of 10 km to 48.3 km in the real atmosphere. The solutions have been obtained...
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.
Results of a study on the effects of changing economic conditions on nuclear energy costs. Zirconium alloys and stainless steel are compared as fuel cladding materials....
