1988 - Volume 30, Issue 4 | by Boulanenkov, V.; Brands, B. (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)) Where accident prevention and mitigation have not succeeded in avoiding damage from nuclear installations, a comprehensive liability regime and an obligation to pay compensation for all nuclear damages must exist as an important component of what is referred to as nuclear energy
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1988 - Volume 30, Issue 4 | by International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria) This summation is drawn from the report The Radiological Accident in Goiania. The report is based on a review meeting of experts held in July 1988 in Rio de Janeiro under the joint organization of CNEN and the IAEA. Many people were directly irradiated by the source and were
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1988 - Volume 30, Issue 4 | by International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria) In 1988, the Uranium Institute, a London-based international association of industrial enterprises in the nuclear industry, published a report entitled The Safety of Nuclear Power Plants. Based on an assessment by an international group of senior nuclear experts from eight
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1988 - Volume 30, Issue 4 | by International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria) Important steps in several areas of global nuclear co-operation were taken by Member States at the 32nd regular session of the IAEA General Conference. The Conference was attended by more than 600 delegates from 100 States. Resolutions were adopted on a wide range of subjects
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1988 - Volume 30, Issue 4 | by Hagen, A. (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria). Div. of Nuclear Safety) The definition of radioactive waste unsuitable for dumping at sea is based on the protection of man. See IAEA Safety Series No. 78. The development of criteria for assessing the impact on deep sea marine organisms at the population level has been attempted in a report recently
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1988 - Volume 30, Issue 4 | by Nam, J.W. (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria). Div. of Life Sciences) Industrial application and advanced research of radiation processing today offers technological advantages. Timely initiation of the Agency's high-dose standardization programme made it possible to meet stringent demands for reliable and accurate dosimetry in high-dose applied
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