Prevention, Detection and Response to Nuclear and Radiological Threats - Apikyan, Samuel; Diamond, David; Way, Ralph; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2008)
Prevention -- From Cold War to International Terrorism -- Nuclear Terrorism: An Overview -- Prospects for Cooperative Threat Reduction Beyond the FSU -- Perspectives on International Radiological Trafficking -- Proliferation Resistance Features in Nuclear Reactor Designs For Small-Power Plants -- Integrated Border Management: R&D Activities at JRC -- Individual Protection Against Inhalation of Long Living Radioactive Dust Due to an Uncontrolled Release -- Contributions of Legislative, Regulatory and Institutional Infrastructures to Sustaining National Nuclear Security Regimes -- Identification, Assessment and Prevention of Different Environmental Risk-Factors Impact, Including Radiation, on the Population Health -- Detection -- Neutrinos, Dark Matter and Nuclear Detection -- Detection of 'Dirty Bombs' Using Nanosecond Neutron Analysis (NNA) Technique -- Ansi and IEC Standards for, and Evaluation of, Radiation Detection Instrumentation -- New Devices for the Detection and Identification of Radioactive Sources -- Perspectives of High Pressure Xenon Gamma-Ray Spectrometers to Detect and Identify Radioactive and Fissile Materials -- Experimental Model of the Device for Detection of Nuclear Materials by Pulsed Photoneutron Technology -- Radioecological Monitoring to the South Caucasus' Rivers as a Tool for Early Warning System -- Response -- Calibration of a Cloud Rise Model for a Rdd Scenario -- Application of a Decision Support System in Nuclear and Radiological Emergency: Opportunities and Challenges -- A 3D-Monte Carlo Based Dispersion Model for an Rdd or a Nuclear Terror Scenario -- Challenges in Responding to Incidents Involving the Malevolent use of Radiation -- French Emergency Response in Case of Dirty Bomb Threat -- Psychological and Social Response to a Nuclear Terrorist Event -- Cleanup and Site Restoration Strategy After a Radiological Terror Attack -- Activity Estimation of Gamma-Ray Emitting Sources Without the Preliminary Knowledge on a Shielding Design. Simulation and Experiment for NAI(TL) Detector -- Assessment of Radiological Risks and Possible Ecological and Economic Damages From Large-Scale Natural and Man-Induced Catastrophes in Ecology-Hazard Regionscatastrophes in Ecology-Hazard Regions of Central Asia and the Caucasus -- Results of Implementation of the State Program 'Radiation' in Georgia.
Keywords: Nuclear energy; Radiation protection; Radiation-Safety measures; Quality control; Reliability; Industrial safety; Particle acceleration; Nuclear fusion; Nuclear Energy; Effects of Radiation/Radiation Protection; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk; Particle Acceleration and Detection, Beam Physics; Nuclear Fusion; Nuclear Energy