Uranium Road
Title | Uranium Road PDF eBook |
Author | David Fig |
Publisher | Jacana Media |
Pages | 134 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781770090927 |
Providing rare insights into the history of South Africa's secretive nuclear industry, this book explains how South Africa turned to the development of a nuclear program and weapons of mass destruction as a result of its abundance of uranium--a byproduct of its gold mines. South Africa's current plans to revitalize its nuclear industry are judged against the background of an international nuclear industry that has not been able to solve basic problems of excessive cost, the threat to human health and safety, and long-term environmental contamination. An illustrated explanation of basic nuclear concepts and the nuclear fuel chain makes the history and arguments easy to follow.
Foreign Economic Trends and Their Implications for the United States
Title | Foreign Economic Trends and Their Implications for the United States PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 908 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Economic history |
ISBN |
Guide to the Colorado Mountains
Title | Guide to the Colorado Mountains PDF eBook |
Author | Randy Jacobs |
Publisher | The Mountaineers Books |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2000-03-01 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 9780967146607 |
Guide to the Colorado Mountains, 10th Edition compiles updated route descriptions for more than 1,500 hiking and climbing destinations-peaks, passes, lakes, and trails- from the expert trip leaders of the Colorado Mountain Club.
Minerals Yearbook
Title | Minerals Yearbook PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Bureau of Mines |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1182 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Mineral industries |
ISBN |
Thorium Energy for the World
Title | Thorium Energy for the World PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Pierre Revol |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 442 |
Release | 2016-04-05 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 3319265423 |
The Thorium Energy Conference (ThEC13) gathered some of the world’s leading experts on thorium technologies to review the possibility of destroying nuclear waste in the short term, and replacing the uranium fuel cycle in nuclear systems with the thorium fuel cycle in the long term. The latter would provide abundant, reliable and safe energy with no CO2 production, no air pollution, and minimal waste production. The participants, representatives of 30 countries, included Carlo Rubbia, Nobel Prize Laureate in physics and inventor of the Energy Amplifier; Jack Steinberger, Nobel Prize Laureate in physics; Hans Blix, former Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Rolf Heuer, Director General of CERN; Pascal Couchepin, former President of the Swiss Confederation; and Claude Haegi, President of the FEDRE, to name just a few. The ThEC13 proceedings are a source of reference on the use of thorium for energy generation. They offer detailed technical reviews of the status of thorium energy technologies, from basic R&D to industrial developments. They also describe how thorium can be used in critical reactors and in subcritical accelerator-driven systems (ADS), answering the important questions: – Why is thorium so attractive and what is the role of innovation, in particular in the nuclear energy domain? – What are the national and international R&D programs on thorium technologies and how are they progressing? ThEC13 was organized jointly by the international Thorium Energy Committee (iThEC), an association based in Geneva, and the International Thorium Energy Organisation (IThEO). It was held in the Globe of Science and Innovation at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland, in October 2013.
Minerals Yearbook
Title | Minerals Yearbook PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Mineral industries |
ISBN |
Niger
Title | Niger PDF eBook |
Author | Robert B Charlick |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 175 |
Release | 2019-03-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0429728581 |
Niger, a landlocked former French colony in the heart of west Africa, is a rich ensemble of African societies struggling to survive as a new nation in one of the world's most difficult ecological regions-the Sahel. Dr, Charlick sketches the emergence and history of Niger, showing how its component societies were influenced by changes in the physica