Nuclear Safety: Concerns with the Continuing Operation of Soviet-Designed Nuclear Reactor Powers

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Year: 2000
Pages: 87
Binding Paperback

Product Code: 0756703182

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Gene Aloise (ed); Gary L. Jones (ed). There is concern about the safety of 59 Soviet-designed nuclear power reactors that operate in the Newly Indep. States of the former Soviet Union, as well as in other nations throughout Central & Eastern Europe. Many of these reactors are similar in design to the Chernobyl reactor in Ukraine that exploded in 1986, causing the worst accident in the history of nuclear power. Deficiencies in the design of many of these reactors pose grave safety risks. This report reviews efforts to improve the safety of Soviet-designed nuclear power reactors & assesses the mgmt. of the Dept. of Energy’s & the NRC’s nuclear safety assistance activities. Illus.

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