文档介绍：Advances in
Nuclear Science
And Technology
VOLUME 24
Advances in
Nuclear Science
And Technology
Series Editors
Jeffery Lewins
Cambridge University, Cambridge, England
Martin Becker
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
Portland, Oregon
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Advances in
Neuclear Science
And Technology
VOLUME 24
Edited by
Jeffery Lewins
Cambridge University
Cambridge, England
and
Martin Becker
Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology
Portland, Oregon
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PREFACE
Nuclear technology, which may be said to have started with devices like
the Cockcroft-Walton machine of the thirties, or the later Lawrence Cyclotron,
and blossomed with the development of nuclear reactors in the forties, is now
well into its sixth decade. What future has it? A seminal turning point may be
taken as the Chernobyl accident (in 1986) occurring at its half-century and we
now enter the first decade beyond Chernobyl.
Chernobyl may well be seen as a paradigm of the break-up of the Soviet
Socialist Republic and while it would be foolish