Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Front Cover
Sep 1975
56 pages
Vol. 31, No. 7
ISSN 0096-3402
Published by Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science, Inc.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists is the premier public resource on scientific and technological developments that impact global security. Founded by Manhattan Project Scientists, the Bulletin's iconic "Doomsday Clock" stimulates solutions for a safer world.
 

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Contents

Drift becomes a rush
6
Nuclear energy (International aspects)
Origins of the Lawrence Livermore laboratory
8
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, Nuclear physics (History)
Nuclear reactor safety
15
United States Atomic Energy Commission, Nuclear reactors (Safety measures)
View from the outside
20
Safety study and its feedback
25
Nuclear reactors (Accidents and explosions)
NRC safety research which may be expanded
34
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Perspective on the debate
37
Frank Von Hippel; 1937-.
No fundamental change in the situation
40
Hans Albrecht Bethe; 1906-.
Legacy of uranium tailings
42
Robert O. Pohl, Air pollution (Physiological effects), Nuclear power plants (Environmental aspects), Electric plants (Environmental aspects), Radiation (Physiological effects), Tailings (Metallurgy)
Failure at the NPT review conference
46
Nuclear disarmament

Virtues and limitations of risk analysis
29
Risk
Future of reactor safety research
32
Nuclear research
Benefits of saying yes!
49
Paul R. Ehrlich
Pollution by electrical transmission
51
Electric lines, Electricity (Physiological effects), Pollution

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