nuclear energy Articles
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India's nuclear energy architecture - global actions and local responses
Post–Fukushima, while some countries decided to shift away from nuclear energy, others like India that continue to pursue their nuclear ambitions have been facing challenges domestically - especially, local–level protests against expansion of nuclear energy. In parallel, India has made significant progress at the global front in civilian nuclear energy ties. While India has attained prominence ...
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Nuclear energy: a fuel for the 21st century? A green perspective
Global warming has put green economics in an uncomfortable position. Should we support nuclear energy, long considered an anathema, as a temporary expedient? Or should we resist nuclear energy's seductive appeal as a palliative for global warming? Is green economics forced to choose between the lesser of two evils – global warming and nuclear energy? Or is there a more palatable alternative ...
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The international pressures on the energy market in Iberian America and Brazil
This paper analyses Brazilian nuclear energy history, and addresses recent events, such as the international political pressures, the International Atomic Energy Agency/IAEA position, the new facts about nuclear energy in the world, the international energy market and the Iberian-America, the news about the Brazilian nuclear energy area, the best opportunities of good business in the Brazilian ...
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Misinformation, nuclear energy and national education in France
Some people think that nuclear energy will develop again in France. They are mistaken: they will face rising generations that are educated to be antinuclear. This paper analyses one of the ways by which this could be achieved.Keywords: misinformation, nuclear energy, education, France, nuclear ...
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The knowledge of and attitude towards nuclear energy among students of medicine in the north of Iran
The use of nuclear energy globally seems to have become greater in recent decades. Today, society wants to have nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. This study was carried out to investigate the knowledge and attitude of students of medicine towards nuclear energy in the universities of medical sciences in Mazandaran Province in the northern part of Iran. All of the students of medicine in basic ...
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Status and prospects of nuclear power in Asian countries
This paper documents the relative position or standing of Asian countries in terms of nuclear energy power production and compares it with the rest of the world, especially North America and Western Europe.Keywords: Asia, nuclear power production, nuclear ...
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INDO-US 123 agreement - a saga of controversies and compromises
The text of the Agreement for Cooperation between The Government of India and The Government of USA concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy (123 Agreement) has been released for public scrutiny before final execution. It has faced unprecedented criticism in both countries and is, perhaps, one of the most difficult negotiations carried out in this field in recent times. The contents of the ...
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Library: Centrales Nucleares en la agenda: Uruguay al dia [Nuclear Energy in the Agenda. Uruguay Updated]
This brief paper reviews the main problems associated with nuclear power and outlines the position in Uruguay.Keywords: Uruguay, nuclear energy, nuclear ...
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The recent global concern and basic considerations for the entrance of developing countries to a nuclear power programme
The global energy and environmental scenarios put pressures on many developing and developed countries to think and rethink for nuclear power in their overall energy supply mix. For developing countries like China and India, nuclear energy has become an inevitable energy option. Other developing countries like Bangladesh, Indonesia, Poland, Thailand, Turkey and Vietnam are committed to introduce ...
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The Russian approach to nuclear liability
This paper gives a view of the challenges of nuclear liability in the specific context of the Russian Federation's legal system. Starting from the Chernobyl disaster and the benefits of nuclear energy, a detailed examination of the development of both internal law and international law regulating nuclear liability matters in Russia is given. Special attention is paid to the regimes established by ...
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Atoms for peace
This overview paper outlines the global energy imbalance. The IEA has also said that the increased use of nuclear power would help meet the increase in energy demand, enhance the security of energy supply and mitigate carbon emissions. Nuclear energy alone is not a panacea, but it is likely in the near future to have an increasing role as part of the global energy mix. The global status of ...
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Treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and its recent issues: a legal perspective
The treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons (NPT) is the cornerstone for a nuclear non-proliferation regime. Nuclear proliferation is a central global security issue and the most dangerous issue in the world of the coming era. After the failure of the NPT 2005 review conference, there is no doubt that the present crisis is the worst that the NPT has faced. There are many positive ...
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The global energy challenges of the 21st century and the potential Russian contribution to world and regional nuclear power
The paper considers the world energy demand until the middle of the 21st century, as well as the possible solutions for this challenge. On the basis of the mathematical model developed at the Kurchatov Institute in 2003-2005, the vision of the global nuclear energy system and its potential contribution to the energy mix was analysed. The energy mix picture by mid-century would contain an ...
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Criminal nuclear law: international obligations and their implementation in the EU
In this paper, 'criminal nuclear law' is understood as the group of rules adopted at the national, regional or international level which criminalises or makes it mandatory for states to criminalise the practices associated with nuclear energy or radioactivity and which can be distinguished from other provisions relating to similar practices on the basis of the inherent ultra-hazardous nature of ...
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Nuclear code of ethics
The nuclear industry is inseparable from the other techniques making up our industrial society. It is not an excrescence that can be lanced without impinging upon the other sectors of this society, one of whose aspects is its interrelativity. The ethical question concerning nuclear energy in its application, its operation, its use, is part of a wider question from which it cannot be separated: ...
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A pn-pair mass evaluation in nuclear photofission
A relation for the proton-neutron pair (pn-pair) mass inside the nucleus is obtained by a statistical model in the Quasi-Deuteron (QD) energy region.Keywords: photofission, nuclear waste, proton-neutron pairs, modelling, nuclear energy, nuclear ...
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Public opinion about nuclear energy in Mexico: a study
Currently, Mexico has adopted an energy policy to diversify the electricity sources, and nuclear energy is among the alternatives to achieve this goal. Public opinion plays a very important role in the policy to adopt the deployment of new nuclear reactors; therefore, it is necessary to define communication strategies to promote nuclear energy. The current study was performed to find what is the ...
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Editorial[:The Indo?US Civil Nuclear Cooperation]
The Indo?US Civil Nuclear Cooperation has aroused great controversy in India on the grounds of technical feasibility, economic desirability, legal implications and political ideologies. This Editorial provides the background to the Special Issue, outlining the Indian political scene and the opinions of Indian scientists as expressed in their open letter.Keywords: India, USA, United States, ...
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Political support for nuclear power in Central Europe
Since the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan, nuclear energy has been under increased media scrutiny. The focus is mainly on Germany and the radical transformation of the position on nuclear energy in that country. To understand and potentially predict the development, however, the situation needs to be viewed from a wider Central European perspective. Polarisation of countries' attitudes ...
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The Hyde Act 2006: India's nuclear dilemma
The Henry J. Hyde US-India Peaceful Atomic Energy Act 2006 having been passed on 18 December 2006, the US Atomic Energy Act 1954 stands amended to conform to the Joint Statement signed on 18 July 2005 by the US President George Bush and the Prime Minister of India Dr Man Mohan Singh for a Bilateral US-India Cooperation in Civilian Nuclear Energy. This communication attempts to analyse how far the ...
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