Download or read book The Environment Created by a Nuclear Explosion in Salt written by D. Rawson and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book THE ENVIRONMENT CREATED BY A NUCLEAR EXPLOSION IN SALT Project GNOME written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Project Gnome written by Project Plowshare (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Earth Deformation from a Nuclear Detonation in Salt written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gnome, an underground test of a nuclear device, was located at a point 303 meters on a bearing N49 deg 43'11''E from the center of Section 34, Township 23 South, Range 30 East, New Mexico Principal Meridian, at an elevation of about 674 meters referred to mean sea level or at a depth from the surface of 361 meters. This site is about 40 km southeast of Carlsbad, New Mexico, in salt beds of the Salado formation in the Delaware Basin. The topography, geology, and structure of the site are described. Theoretical calculations indicated that the effects of the Gnome nuclear explosion would result in a cavity 17 meters in radius and total tunnel collapse to a point 125 meters from the blast. E ssentially no permanent displacement was expected in the shaft. Damage was not expected in the Shell gas well, 9.3 km distant; the potash mines, the nearest 13 km distant; nor in Carlsbad Caverns, 55 km distant. The theoretical maximum limit of displacement of a free particle at the surface was 3.035 meters. This was expected to develop fractures and visible permanent displacements. At the Gnome shot point a relatively stable cavity about 40 meters high was formed that could be used for underground storage of gas, petroleum, or waste products or to assist in mineral extraction. Surface effects from the explosion were minor, because the lithology, geologic structures, and topography were favorable for minimizing effects. The only potentiallydangerous effect of the deformation was the escape of radiation, and this could probably be prevented by additional stemming in the tunnel or by firing the shot in a vertical drill hole. It was concluded that nuclear detonations of 3 plus or minus 1-kt yield can be fired in horizontally-layered salt without damaging shafts at distances of 400 or more meters, and a drift near a nuclear detonation in salt does not suffer total collapse as it does in tuff and granite and as it was theorized would happen to a point 125 meters from the shot point. It was also concluded that a 5-kt nuclear explosion can be detonated in halite 200 meters under a water-bearing formation (aquifer) without so seriously fracturing both the upper part of the halite and the aquifer that water would penetrate downward to the cavity or to any part of the mine. The significantly different results between Gnome and Logan events, both having a yield of approximately 5-kt (Gnome 3 plus or minus 1-kt), demonstrate that different environmental characteristics will almost certainly cause differing effects from nuclear explosions. There is a critical need to reduce the necessity for interpolation by increasing both empirical and theoretical knowledge by other experiments in different environments. The transient displacement at the surface, reported to be 1.5 meters, was just half the theoretical maximum limit of 3 meters estimated for displacement of a free particle at the surface. (C.H.).
Download or read book Peaceful Applications of Nuclear Explosives Plowshare written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes scientific articles and papers, p. 55-606.
Download or read book Production of Tritium by Contained Nuclear Explosions in Salt written by W. D. Bond and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nuclear Science Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1976-03 with total page 938 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Engineering with Nuclear Explosives written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proceedings written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Protection Against Radioactive Pollution written by N. Birsen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATO Advanced Research Workshop "Environmental Protection Against Radioactive Pollution" was held in Almaty on September 16-19, 2002. Experts from Azerbaijan, Denmark, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Norway, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Ukraine, USA, Uzbekistan and the IAEA have participated and made presentations. The Workshop was organized parallel to the “2nd Eurasia Conference on Nuclear Science and its Application” held in Almaty on September 16-19, 2002 that was organized by Institute of Nuclear Physics of Kazakhstan with Turkish Atomic Energy Authority and National Academy of Science of Azerbaijan, National Academy of Science of Kyrgyzstan, Institute of Nuclear Physics of Uzbekistan. So, the number of participants for the Workshop was rather high. The NATO Advanced Research Workshop generated important interactions and provided a mechanism for scientists of different nations and of varied disciplines to discuss challenges that confront many countries around the world. The reports presented at the Workshop were published in this NATO Science Series. The main directions of the presented reports were as follows; General estimation of the radioactive contamination of the territories and radiation hazardous objects, including former military test sites, areas influenced due to Chernobly and Mayak accidents, and territories of oil fields; Techniques and procedures of radioecological monitoring; Techniques of determination of radionuclide concentrations and its species in the environment.
Download or read book Monitoring a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty written by Eystein S. Husebye and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 843 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international treaty banning the testing of any nuclear device in any environment - a comprehensive test ban treaty (CTBT) - has been on the political agenda for nearly 40 years. Objections to a CTBT have been political, technical, or a combination of both. However, the possibilities seem better after the end of the Cold War. In the prevailing, cooperative disarmament climate a CTBT appears likely to be approved by most countries in 1996. Hence the great current interest in monitoring technologies and capabilities. Such issues are comprehensively addressed here, a preamble being devoted to the political developments and setbacks over the past 40 years. Since seismic means are considered the dominant monitoring element, they are explored in detail. Contributions cover network deployments, advanced signal processing, wave propagation in heterogeneous media, and seismic source representations, and a variety of techniques for source classification (including neural networks). Complementary monitoring techniques, such as hydroacoustics, radionuclides and infrasound, are also summarised. The IAEA operation for monitoring compliance with the Non-Proliferation Treaty is also presented. The book also includes eyewitness accounts of the Soviet 50 Mt megabomb development and test, as well as the efforts made by the state to monitor the nuclear test programmes of the western powers. Includes some 33 articles written by distinguished scientists active in CTBT monitoring research for decades.
Download or read book Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Explosions written by and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nuclear Explosion Services for Industrial Applications written by United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers H.R. 477 and identical H.R. 10288 and companion S. 1885, to amend the Atomic Energy Act to authorize AEC to provide peaceful nuclear explosives to commercial domestic and foreign concerns under an expanded Plowshare Program. Includes report "Nuclear Construction Engineering Technology" by Lt. Col. Bernard C. Hughes, Sept. 1968 (p. 447-629).
Download or read book Peaceful Uses for Nuclear Explosives written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred nine annotated and subject-arranged references are presented to reports and published literature concerning excavation, natural resources development and scientific applications. Author and report number availability indexes are included.
Download or read book Nuclear Risk in Central Asia written by Brit Salbu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-04-04 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a significant number of nuclear and radiological sources in Central Asia, which have contributed, are still contributing, or have the potential to contribute to radioactive contamination in the future. Key sources and contaminated sites of concern are: The nuclear weapons tests performed at the Semipalatinsk Test Site (STS) in Kazakhstan during 1949–1989. A total of 456 nuclear weapons tests have been perf- med in the atmosphere (86), above and at ground surface (30) and underground (340) accompanied by radioactive plumes reaching far out of the test site. Safety trials at STS, where radioactive sources were spread by conventional explosives. Peaceful nuclear explosions (PNEs) within STS and outside STS in Kazakhstan, producing crater lakes (e.g., Tel’kem I and Tel’kem II), waste storage facilities (e.g., LIRA) etc. Technologically enhanced levels of naturally occurring radionuclides (TENORM) due to U mining and tailing. As a legacy of the cold war and the nuclear weapon p- gramme in the former USSR, thousands of square kilometers in the Central Asia co- tries are contaminated. Large amounts of scale from the oil and gas industries contain sufficient amounts of TENORM. Nuclear reactors, to be decommissioned or still in operation. Storage of spent nuclear fuel and other radioactive wastes. In the characterization of nuclear risks, the risks are estimated by integrating the results of the hazard identification, the effects assessment and the exposure assessment.
Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by United States. Superintendent of Documents and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
