1978 - Volume 20, Issue 1 | by Georg Woite The estimation of capital investment costs for power plants is one of the most relevant steps in power system planning. The intention of this article is to summarize capital cost experience and estimates in industrialized and developing Member States, and to provide some
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1978 - Volume 20, Issue 1 | by Author not available The IAEA together with the Nuclear Energy Agency of OECD has been concerned with the problems of uranium supply and demand for a number of years and has periodically published reports on uranium resources, production and demand at roughly two-year intervals in order to provide
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1978 - Volume 20, Issue 1 | by John P. Colton The nuclear fuel cycle is composed of a number of discrete operations before and after irradiation of fuel in the reactor. Those operations before insertion and irradiation of the fuel elements in a reactor are generally referred to as process steps in the front end of the fuel
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1978 - Volume 20, Issue 1 | by Vyacheslav Chernyshev Over the past two decades, research and development in magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) electrical power generation have been accompanied by" a considerable upswing in international co-operation. The IAEA's MHD programme was launched in 1966 when it supported the initiative of OECD's
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1978 - Volume 20, Issue 1 | by Doederlein, J.M. (Safety Technology Division, Institutt for Atomenergi, Kjeller (NO)) In evaluating the desired role of nuclear power, the overall perspective of the role of energy in society should be applied. Views on the role of electric energy and its production forms need to be integrated in an overall cost-risk-benefit analysis on overall economic growth,
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1978 - Volume 20, Issue 1 | by Author not available Radioassay procedures for the measurement of substances such as hormones, vitamins and drugs in the body fluids and tissues, above all in the blood, are now m the front rank of medical applications of radioactive materials. These procedures, which are carried out on specimens in
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1978 - Volume 20, Issue 1 | by Author not available As shortages of food and energy still continue to constitute the major threats to the well-being of the human race, all actions aiming at overcoming these problems must be assigned vital importance. Of the two complementary ways of solving the food problem (i.e., increasing the
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1978 - Volume 20, Issue 1 | by Author not available Interest in the utilization of nuclear steam supply systems for merchant ships and icebreakers has recently increased considerably due to the sharp rise in oil prices and the continuing trend towards larger and faster merchant ships. Canada, for example, is considering
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1978 - Volume 20, Issue 1 | by Author not available Deliberations of this conference mainly dealt with the following topics: standardization in primary standardizing laboratories, standardization in in Secondary Standard Dosimetry Laboratories (SSDLs), standardization in personnel dosimetry, basic physical data and international
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