Managing security risks to the nuclear fuel cycle: current knowledge and challenges ahead
DOI: 10.1504/AFP.2007.015821 | Friedrich Steinhausler | Since the terror attacks on 11 September 2001 in the USA, the world has suffered 11 major terror attacks with suspected links to al-Qaeda, resulting in over 1045 dead and about 6000 persons injured. These attacks were targeted against nigh... | 275 - 280 |
Nuclear energy and non-proliferation
DOI: 10.1504/AFP.2007.015821 | M. Gharib | More than 60 years after the |atomic age| was born, the international community is still suffering from the side effects. The doors were opened to a new energy resource that is vast and powerful. Problems on how to regulate and confine it t... | 281 - 286 |
Iran|s strong case for nuclear power is obscured by UN sanctions and geopolitics
DOI: 10.1504/AFP.2007.015821 | David Wood | Rapid growth in Iran|s domestic energy demand and its dependence on oil exports for revenue has forced it to consider alternative future energy solutions. Years of inadequate investment in new infrastructure to develop oil and gas reserves ... | 287 - 300 |
Non-proliferation international legal instruments on the 50th anniversary of the IAEA
DOI: 10.1504/AFP.2007.015821 | Diva E. Puig | The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction is a threat for the peace and security of all humanity. From Hiroshima in 1945, vertical and horizontal proliferation has increased considerably. Nuclear proliferation is the spread of nuclea... | 301 - 306 |
The Hyde Act 2006: India|s nuclear dilemma
DOI: 10.1504/AFP.2007.015821 | B.B. Singh | 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... | 307 - 319 |
Evaluation of nuclear knowledge management on light water reactor, high temperature gas-cooled reactor and fusion reactor: a case study of Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI)
DOI: 10.1504/AFP.2007.015821 | Kazuaki Yanagisawa | Within JAERI, funds invested in a 45-year study of light-water reactors (LWRs) totalled 4.2 b$ (billion dollars) for research, including human resources of 34,718 years. The benefits to taxpayers from this JAERI work were estimated to be ab... | 320 - 335 |
Damage propagation in complex biological systems following exposure to low doses of ionising radiation
DOI: 10.1504/AFP.2007.015821 | Ludwig E. Feinendegen, Herwig G. Paretzke, Ronald D. Neumann | Biological organisms present hierarchical levels of organisation capable of maintaining homeostasis at low-level perturbations through intricate signalling between cells. Ionising radiation may damage DNA and other molecular components. Thi... | 336 - 354 |
Newly arising issues on the limitation of intervention law and refugees under the North Korean Human Rights Act of 2004
DOI: 10.1504/AFP.2007.015821 | Heewon Han | An Act must have a jurisdiction in order to become validly enforceable and to have legitimacy as a law. From this point of view, one of the purposes of this article is to find the validity and legitimacy of the North Korean Human Rights Act... | 355 - 422 |
