Some countries have moved beyond the design and operation of nuclear electricity generating systems to confronting the issue of nuclear waste disposal, whole others are still committed to further nuclear facility construction. Volume 24 chronicles these key developments and examines nuclear reactor accidents at Chernobyl, Bhopal, and TMI. The text also analyzes current international knowledge of neutron interactions; deterministic methods based on mean values for assessing radiation distributions; practical applications of the TIBERE models to explicit computation of leakage terms in realistic reactor geometry; and a technique to deal with the issues of finance, risk assessment, and public perception.

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Chernobyl and Bhopal Ten Years On; M.C. Grimston. Transport Theory in Discrete Stochastic Mixtures; G.C. Pomraning. The Role of Neural Networks in Reactor Diagnostics and Control; I. Pazsit, M. Kitamura. Data Testing of EndF/B-VI with MCNP: Crystal Experiments, Thermal-Reactor Lattices and Time-of-Flight Measurements; R. Mosteller, et al. System Dynamics: An Introduction and Applications to the Nuclear Industry; K.F. Hansen, M.W. Golay. BN Theory: Advances and New Models for Neutron Leakage Calculations; I. Petrovic, P. Benoist. Current Status of Core Degradation and Melt Progression in Severe LWR Accidents; R.W. Wright. Index. Contents of Earlier Volumes: Volumes 10-23.