Control on Nuclear Technology Nuclear technology made an explosive entrance in the scientific world in 1939 when the United States was made aware of Germany’s testing on nuclear technology‚ and they began the Manhattan Project in an attempt to create a nuclear weapon before Germany did. The United States scientists successfully harnessed the power of the atom in a bomb‚ and the United States took its spot as the first nation with fully functioning nuclear technology. This technology‚ in the forms
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NUCLEAR TERRORISM INTRODUCTION Nuclear terrorism denotes the detonation of a yield-producing nuclear bomb containing fissile material by terrorists.[1] Some definitions of nuclear terrorism include the sabotage of a nuclear facility and/or the detonation of a radiological device‚ colloquially termed a dirty bomb‚ but consensus is lacking. In legal terms‚ nuclear terrorism is an offense committed if a person unlawfully and intentionally “uses in any way radioactive material … with the intent
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Nuclear Reactors An Overview Nuclear reactor is any class of devices that can initiate and control a self-sustaining series of nuclear fissions. Nuclear reactors are used as research tools‚ as systems for producing radioactive isotopes‚ and most prominently as energy sources for nuclear power plants.Djeresssi (1991) Principles of operation Nuclear reactors operate on the principle of nuclear fission‚ the process in which a heavy atomic nucleus splits into two smaller fragments. The nuclear fragments
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------------------------------------------------- 1991 India economic crisis By 1967‚ India had started having balance of payments problems. By the end of 1990‚ it was in a serious economic crisis. The government was close to default‚ its central bank had refused new credit and foreign exchange reserves had reduced to such a point that India could barely finance three weeks’ worth of imports. India had to airlift its gold reserves to pledge it with International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a loan.[1]
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Research Paper on the Gulf War 1991 Ba’athist Iraq by the late 1980’s was a rogue state ruled with an iron fist by the ruthless dictator Saddam Hussein‚ who in an eight year war with his neighbor Iran‚ had mounted a pile of debt. Seeking a way to wipe out this debt and show off the military might of the fourth largest military in the world‚ Saddam looked to its oil-rich neighbor Kuwait. In an unprecedented and unprovoked act of aggression‚ Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait threatened the very stability
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The Benefits of Nuclear Technology Concerns about the disastrous event in the past make people to look into nuclear technology in a very negative perspective. For example‚ the 1979 partial meltdown of a reactor at Three Mile Island and the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. On that note‚ the most recent international event regarding nuclear technology possession‚ where Iran falls under probation for using nuclear technology for non-peaceful purposes (Iran entitled to use peaceful nuclear technology: EU
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Iran’s Development of Nuclear Energy: A Realist and Constructivist Perspective Iran’s development of nuclear energy includes the advancement of nuclear technologies encompassing a uranium enrichment program and construction of facilities such as power reactors and heavy water reactors‚ which is subject to a thick haze of repudiation that incorporates an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) investigation (Kerr‚ 2014‚ pp. 1-3). The understanding of the abovementioned nuclear developments in Iran
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sharply increased so as to meet the rapid development in every country. As generating electricity by coal is not renewable and environmental unfriendly‚ people tend to develop renewable energy like nuclear power‚ wind power‚ hydropower etc. though the cost of constructing the plants and utilizing is extremely high. Among the renewable energy mentioned above‚ nuclear power is the most popular to expand. Nuclear power is the use of nuclear fusion or fission from the reactor to generate electricity. It
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The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership: A Threat to Human Life and Health February 2009 Robert Gould‚ M.D.‚ Peter Wilk‚ M.D.‚ and Jill M. Parillo Physicians for Social Responsibility The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership: A Threat to Human Life and Health Summary The Bush Administration’s Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) would increase waste storage and proliferation concerns arising from the use and projected expansion of nuclear energy by legitimizing the use of reprocessing and enrichment
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NUCLEAR ENERGY Nuclear energy is the energy contained in the centre ‚ or nucleus of an atom. The nucleus is the most powerful source of energy that exist. Nuclear energy is use in scientific research and in medicine treatments. It powers satellites and submarines‚ and it is used to produce electricity. People have also put nuclear energy to destructive uses through the creation of weapons.1 Nuclear energy also called ATOMIC ENERGY‚ energy
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