Advanced Security and Safeguarding in the Nuclear Power Industry: State of the art and future challenges presents an overview of a wide ranging scientific, engineering, policy, regulatory, and legal issues facing the nuclear power industry. Editor Victor Nian and his team of contributors deliver a much needed review of the latest developments in safety, security and safeguards ("Three S's�) as well as other related and important subject matters within and beyond the nuclear power industry. This book is particularly insightful to countries with an interest in developing a nuclear power industry as well as countries where education to improve society's opinion on nuclear energy is crucial to its future success.
Advanced Security and Safeguarding in the Nuclear Power Industry covers the foundations of nuclear power production as well as the benefits and impacts of radiation to human society, international conventions, treaties, and standards on the "Three S's�, emergency preparedness and response, and civil liability in the event of a nuclear accident.
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Table of Contents
1. Recent advances in nuclear power technologies 2. Non-power applications- new missions for nuclear energy to be delivered safely and securely 3. Radiation hazards from the nuclear fuel cycle 4. Health effects of exposure to ionizing radiation 5. Nuclear plant severe accidents: challenges and prevention 6. Nuclear off-site emergency preparedness and response: key concepts and international normative principles 7.�International conventions and legal frameworks on nuclear safety, security, and safeguards 8. Civil liability in the event of a severe nuclear disaster 9. Future challenges in safety, security, and safeguards
