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Contents
| 2 | |
| Nuclear energy, Power resources | |
| 3 | |
| Bernard I. Spinrad | |
| 7 | |
| Radiation (Safety measures) | |
| 8 | |
| Nuclear power plants | |
| 17 | |
| Radioactive pollution, Radiation (Physiological effects) |
| 28 | |
| John William Gofman (American physical chemist and molecular biologist.) | |
| 33 | |
| Plutonium | |
| 36 | |
| Nuclear reactors | |
| 37 | |
| Power plants (Environmental aspects) | |
| 43 | |
| Radiobiology |
| 25 | |
| Arthur R. Tamplin |
| 46 | |
| Nuclear power plants |
Common terms and phrases
accident amount areas Atomic Energy Commission boiling water reactor cancer cent China Chinese coal cooling cost of electricity demonstration plants dioxide economic effects effluents electric power emissions energy crisis energy source enterprise environment environmental factor fast breeder reactor fission products fossil fuels fossil-fueled plant fusion fusion power future gas-cooled fast genetic dose Gofman guidelines hazards ICRP increase less leukemia levels light water reactors limit liquid metal fast major megawatt ment metal fast breeder millirems mutation natural background neutrons nuclear energy nuclear fuel nuclear plant nuclear power plants nuclear power reactors operation oxides plutonium pollution population possible present pressurized water pressurized water reactor problem radiation exposure radioactivity rads reduce release reprocessing require risk Russian safety Seaborg sodium standards steam storage sulfur sulfur dioxide Tamplin tion tional tons United uranium utilities waste heat