Ebook: Advances in Nuclear Science and Technology

The present review volume not only covers a wide range of topics pertinent to nuclear science and technology, but has attracted a distinguished international authorship, for which the editors are grateful. The opening review by Drs. Janet Tawn and Richard Wakeford addresses the difficult matter of questioning sci- tific hypotheses in a court of law. The United Kingdom experienced a substantial nuclear accident in the 1950s in the form of the Windscale Pile fire. This in itself had both good and bad consequences; the setting up of a licensing authority to ensure nuclear safety was one, the understandable public sentiment concerning nuclear power (despite the fire occurring in a weapons pile) the other. Windscale today is subsumed in the reprocessing plant at Sellafield operated by British Nuclear Fuels plc and it was inevitable perhaps that when an excess cluster of childhood leukaemia was observed in the nearby village of Seascale that public concern should be promoted by the media, leading to the hearing of a claim of compensation brought on behalf of two of the families of BNFLs workers who had suffered that loss. The review article demonstrates the complexity of und- standing such a claim against the statistical fluctuations inherent and shows how the courts were persuaded of the need to propose a biological mechanism if responsibility were to be held. The Company were undoubtedly relieved by the finding.

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This twenty-fifth volume in a distinguished series addresses a range of topics including:

• the difficult matter of questioning scientific hypotheses in court
• the use of Monte Carlo simulation to evaluate time-dependent development and to study system reliability in nuclear reactors of considerable complexity
• the genetic optimization algorith
• wavelet analysis
• ergonomic design of safer and more efficient plant control rooms.

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This twenty-fifth volume in a distinguished series addresses a range of topics including:

• the difficult matter of questioning scientific hypotheses in court
• the use of Monte Carlo simulation to evaluate time-dependent development and to study system reliability in nuclear reactors of considerable complexity
• the genetic optimization algorith
• wavelet analysis
• ergonomic design of safer and more efficient plant control rooms.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Childhood Leukaemia and Radiation: The Sellafield Judgment....Pages 1-29
Reactor Dynamics from Monte Carlo Calculations....Pages 31-52
Notes on a Simplified Tour: From the Fourier to the Wavelet Transform....Pages 53-112
Genetic Algorithms for Incore Fuel Management and Other Recent Developments in Optimisation....Pages 113-154
The Computerization of Nuclear Power Plant Control Rooms....Pages 155-169
Consequences of Chernobyl a View Ten Years on....Pages 171-214
Dynamic Reliability....Pages 215-278
Back Matter....Pages 279-281

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This twenty-fifth volume in a distinguished series addresses a range of topics including:

• the difficult matter of questioning scientific hypotheses in court
• the use of Monte Carlo simulation to evaluate time-dependent development and to study system reliability in nuclear reactors of considerable complexity
• the genetic optimization algorith
• wavelet analysis
• ergonomic design of safer and more efficient plant control rooms.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Childhood Leukaemia and Radiation: The Sellafield Judgment....Pages 1-29
Reactor Dynamics from Monte Carlo Calculations....Pages 31-52
Notes on a Simplified Tour: From the Fourier to the Wavelet Transform....Pages 53-112
Genetic Algorithms for Incore Fuel Management and Other Recent Developments in Optimisation....Pages 113-154
The Computerization of Nuclear Power Plant Control Rooms....Pages 155-169
Consequences of Chernobyl a View Ten Years on....Pages 171-214
Dynamic Reliability....Pages 215-278
Back Matter....Pages 279-281
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