Download or read book The Containment of Underground Nuclear Explosions written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Underground Nuclear Testing Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Statement Underground Nuclear Test Programs Nevada Test Site tests of 1 Megaton Or Less written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Underground Nuclear Test Programs FY 1972 written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Underground Weapons Testing written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers S.J. Res. 155, to investigate international political consequences and ecological effects of underground nuclear testing, especially in the Pacific Ocean area.
Download or read book Safety of Underground Nuclear Testing written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Nevada Operations Office and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Underground Nuclear Testing Programs Nevada Test Site written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Statement written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Effects of Underground Nuclear Tests written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Environmental Statement Underground Nuclear Test Programs Fiscal Year 1972 Nevada Test Site tests of 1 Megaton Or Less written by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Material Properties Testing Support to the DNA Underground Nuclear Test Program written by Lawrence B. Owen and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Underground Nuclear Test Program FY 1973 written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nuclear Weapons written by Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three authoritative reports provide unique information about nuclear weapons testing and the verification of nuclear nonproliferation treaties: (1) The Containment of Underground Nuclear Explosions, (2) Seismic Verification of Nuclear Testing Treaties, (3) Environmental Monitoring for Nuclear Safeguards. The Containment of Underground Nuclear Explosions - At a time of continued underground nuclear bomb tests, an assessment of the safety of the process led to this report. This special report reviews the safety of the nuclear testing program and assesses the technical procedures used to test nuclear weapons and ensure that radioactive material produced by test explosions remains contained underground. An overall evaluation considers the acceptability of the remaining risk and discusses reasons for the lack of public confidence. Seismic Verification of Nuclear Testing Treaties - Like an earthquake, the force of an underground nuclear explosion creates seismic waves that travel through the Earth. A satisfactory seismic network to monitor such tests must be able to both detect and identify seismic signals in the presence of "noise," for example, from natural earthquakes. In the case of monitoring a treaty that limits testing below a certain size explosion, the seismic network must also be able to estimate the size with acceptable accuracy. All of this must be done with an assured capability to defeat adequately any credible attempt to evade or spoof the monitoring network. This report addresses the issues of detection, identification, yield estimation, and evasion to arrive at answers to the two critical questions: Down to what size explosion can underground testing be seismically monitored with high confidence? How accurately can the yields of underground explosions be measured? Environmental Monitoring for Nuclear Safeguards - To assure that states are not violating their Non-Proliferation Treaty commitments, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) must also verify that states do not possess covert nuclear facilities-a mission that prior to the 1991 Gulf War, it had neither the political backing nor the resources to conduct. In the report, OTA concluded that providing the IAEA with the resources, the information, and the political support it needs to look for such sites may turn out to be the most important aspect of a reinvigorated safeguards regime. The IAEA recognizes the importance of this new mission and is in the process of assuming it. One of the tools it is exploring to provide some indication of the presence of secret, or undeclared, nuclear activities and facilities is environmental monitoring. Modern sampling and analysis technologies provide powerful tools to detect the presence of characteristic substances that are likely to be emitted by such illicit activities. This background paper examines the prospects for such technologies to improve nuclear safeguards. It concludes that environmental monitoring can greatly increase the ability to detect undeclared activity at declared, or known, sites, and it can significantly increase the chances of detecting and locating undeclared sites.
Download or read book Technical Discussions of Offsite Safety Programs for Underground Nuclear Detonations written by Reynolds Electrical & Engineering Co. Administrative Publications Section and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Radiological Criteria for Underground Nuclear Tests written by J. S. Malik and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The radiological criteria for the conduct of nuclear tests have undergone many revisions with the current criteria being 0.17 rad for uncontrolled populations and 0.5 rad for controllable populations. Their effect upon operations at the Nevada Test Site and the current off-site protective plans are reviewed for areas surrounding the Site. The few accidental releases that have occurred are used to establish estimates of probability of release and of hazard to the population. These are then put into context by comparing statistical data on other accidents and cataclysms. The guidelines established by DOE Manual Chapter MC-0524 have never been exceeded during the entire underground nuclear test program. The probability of real hazard to off-site populations appears to be sufficiently low as not to cause undue concern to the citizenry.
Download or read book Evaluation of Quantification of Margins and Uncertainties Methodology for Assessing and Certifying the Reliability of the Nuclear Stockpile written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-04-02 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maintaining the capabilities of the nuclear weapons stockpile and performing the annual assessment for the stockpile's certification involves a wide range of processes, technologies, and expertise. An important and valuable framework helping to link those components is the quantification of margins and uncertainties (QMU) methodology. In this book, the National Research Council evaluates: how the national security labs were using QMU, including any significant differences among the three labs its use in the annual assessment whether the applications of QMU to assess the proposed reliable replacement warhead (RRW) could reduce the likelihood of resuming underground nuclear testing This book presents an assessment of each of these issues and includes findings and recommendations to help guide laboratory and NNSA implementation and development of the QMU framework. It also serves as a guide for congressional oversight of those activities.
Download or read book Undergrounds in Flux written by Amy Cassell Loji and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By contextualizing Albert Wendt's Black Rainbow with histories of nuclear testing in Oceania, this thesis contends that the novel's representations of underground spaces critique the practices of underground nuclear testing that predominated in the late Cold War. The nuclear colonial powers attempted to domesticate the underground in willful ignorance of the ways that the subterranean sphere shapeshifts mercurially between domestic and wild. This thesis incorporates Kamau Brathwaite's framework of tidalectics to rebuke the perceived dichotomy between land and ocean and to show that the underground is inherently multifaceted and imbued with resistant potential. In examining the plural meanings and attendant critical possibilities presented by Black Rainbow's subterranean settings, I articulate the ambivalences lurking within colonial conceptions of these spaces and examine interconnections between ideas of the underground, cultural conceptions of ecology, and feminist decolonial theory. The relationality between these elements is central to Black Rainbow's indictment of the colonial conceptions of land (and human-land interactions) that justified underground nuclear testing programs during the Cold War and continue to shape the structural conditions producing and exacerbating contemporary ecological crises.
