This Book second edition to covers all the areas of scientific communication that a scientist needs to know and to master in order to successfully promote his or her research and career. This unique "all-in-one" handbook begins with a discussion of the basics of scientific writing style and composition and then applies these principles to writing research papers, review articles, grant proposal…
Proceedings contains material Safety management; Occupational radiation protection: Trends and developments; Backfitting, upgrading and modernization of nuclear power plants; Radiological protection principles for situations of chronic exposure to residual radioactive materials: decommissioning and rehabilitation and reclamation of land; Radiation safety in the distant future: the issue of the …
Where many other textbooks concentrate on the theoretical issues surrounding the nature of human reliability and try to explain and prove why people err, we have chosen a different path. This text presents a summary of methods and techniques and data and concepts as they are applied in the practice of HRA. What we do first in our text is to simply report the facts-- to locate the probabilistic …
This book consist 21 chapters that Introduction; Soil formation and characterization; Soil phase relationships, index properties and classification; Soil permeability and seepage; Effective stress and pore water pressure; Stress distribution in soils due to surface loads; Compressibility and consolidation; Shear strength of soil; Soil exploration; Stability of slopes; Lateral earth pressure; Sh…
Terrorism is no longer something that only happens to other countries. Attacks on US soil in the 1990’s brought the reality of terrorism home and the Sept 11th tragedy let us know that the United States is a high priority target. The goal of today’s terrorist is body count, and while traditional bombings have served them in the past, the allure of killing thousands of people with a very s…
Nuclear forensic analysis (or nuclear forensics) is an example of such a new discipline. Certain nuclear forensic techniques have been used for many years in isolated applications, including: * IAEA safeguards system verifying compliance with the treaty’s prohibitions on the manufacture of a nuclear weapon by a non-nuclear weapon state; * Enforcement of controls on the transfer of nuclear mat…