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  • Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima

    Curse of the Nuclear Genie

    by Thomas Filburn, Stephan Bullard ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book examines the three most well-known and socially important nuclear accidents. Each of these accidents had significant, yet dramatically different, human and environmental impacts. Unique factors helped shape the overall pattern and scale of each disaster, but a major contributing factor was the different designs used for each reactor. Fukushima was a boiling water reactor (BWR), Chernobyl ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Commercial Aviation in the Jet Era and the Systems that Make it Possible

    by Thomas Filburn ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book discusses the multiple systems that make commercial jet travel safe and convenient. The author starts by tracing the evolution of commercial jets from the Boeing 707 to the double decker Airbus A380. The next 7 chapters discuss flight controls, along with the high lift surfaces (flaps and slats) that are essential to allow high speed, low drag aircraft to take-off and land. The other ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

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  • Fallout from Fukushima

    by Richard Broinowski ...
    On a calm afternoon in March 2011, a force-nine earthquake jolted the Pacific Ocean seabed east of Japan. Forty minutes later, a tsunami 21 metres high crashed onto the coast of Fukushima, Miyagi, and Iwate prefectures. Towns collapsed, villages were destroyed, and 16,000 people were swept away. The earthquake and tsunami also resulted in another terrifying calamity — explosions and meltdowns at a ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Landscape and Building Design for Bushfire Areas

    by Caird Ramsay, Lisle Rudolph ...
    Shortlisted in TAFE Vocational Education category in the 2004 Australian Awards for Excellence in Educational Publishing. The devastation wreaked by bushfires on Australian homes and landscapes is an all too familiar scenario. Yet, why do we often see one house burn, whilst an apparently similar house on an adjacent block can endure? Research has shown that many factors affect the chances of a ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • The Nuclear Imperative

    A Critical Look at the Approaching Energy Crisis (More Physics for Presidents)

    by Jeff Eerkens ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    In this well documented global wake-up call, nuclear physicist Jeff Eerkens explores remedies for the impending energy crisis, when oil and natural gas are depleted. Because burning coal worsens the problem of global warming, alternate energy sources must be instituted. The Nuclear Imperative demonstrates with scientific documentation that solar, wind, and biomass power alone, while helpful, are ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Tritium: Fuel of Fusion Reactors

    Edited by Tetsuo Tanabe ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    This book focuses on tritium as a fuel for fusion reactors and a next-generation energy source. Following an introduction of tritium as a hydrogen radioisotope, important issues involved in establishing safe and economical tritium fuel cycles including breeding for a fusion reactor are summarized; these include the handling of large amounts of tritium: confinement, leakage, contamination, ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • Flooded Forest and Desert Creek

    Ecology and History of the River Red Gum

    by Matthew Colloff ...
    The river red gum has the most widespread natural distribution of Eucalyptus in Australia, forming extensive forests and woodlands in south-eastern Australia and providing the structural and functional elements of important floodplain and wetland ecosystems. Along ephemeral creeks in the arid Centre it exists as narrow corridors, providing vital refugia for biodiversity. The tree has played a ... Read more

    $50.39 USD

  • Chemical Pretreatment of Nuclear Waste for Disposal

    Edited by E.P. Horwitz, W.W. Schulz ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Chemical pretreatment of nuclear wastes refers to the sequence of separations processes used to partition such wastes into a small volume of high-level waste for deep geologic disposal and a larger volume of low-level waste for disposal in a near-surface facility. Pretreatment of nuclear wastes now stored at several U. S. Department of Energy sites ranges from simple solid-liquid separations to ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Remaining Issues in the Decommissioning of Nuclear Powered Vessels

    Including Issues Related to the Environmental Remediation of the Supporting Infrastructure

    Edited by Ashot A. Sarkisov, L.G. LeSage ...
    Series Book 22 - NATO Science Series: IV
    The Russian NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "Scientific Problems and Unresolved Issues Remaining in the Decommissioning of Nuclear Powered Vessels and in the Environmental Remediation ofTheir Supporting Infrastructure," was held in Moscow, Russia at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences on April 22-24, 2002. This was the third in this series of North Atlantic Treaty Organization ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • Chemical Separation Technologies and Related Methods of Nuclear Waste Management

    Applications, Problems, and Research Needs

    Edited by Gregory R. Choppin, Mikhail Kh. Khankhasayev ...
    Series Book 53 - NATO Science Partnership Subseries
    Separation technologies are of crucial importance to the goal of significantly reducing the volume of high-level nuclear waste, thereby reducing the long-term health risks to mankind. International co-operation, including the sharing of concepts and methods, as well as technology transfer, is essential in accelerating research and development in the field.The writers of this book are all ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Deep-Water Fisheries of the North Atlantic Oceanic Slope

    Edited by Alan G. Hopper ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    A comprehensive review of current knowledge of the deep-water fishes of the North Atlantic and their exploitation. Individual countries and research institutions have carried out their own investigations and surveys in the past, but these results have rarely been coordinated, nor has there been a proper sharing of results and data. But there is a need to assess the total size of the deep-water ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Subsurface Hydrological Responses to Land Cover and Land Use Changes

    Edited by Makoto Taniguchi ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Since human beings first appeared on the earth, we have changed land cover and land use for our own purposes, such as conveniences and high productivity. As a result of the land cover and land use changes, many serious environmental problems occur on the earth. Studying meteorological and hydrological effects of vegetation and land cover/use changes helps us to understand the environmental changes ... Read more

    $89.09 USD