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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.

Nuclear engineering. --- Nuclear physics. --- Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons. --- Heavy ions. --- Ions --- Atomic nuclei --- Atoms, Nuclei of --- Nucleus of the atom --- Physics --- Atomic power engineering --- Engineering --- Nuclear physics --- Nuclear energy

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This volume presents a comprehensive collection of state-of-the-art advances in the field of solid state ionic materials and the design, fabrication and performance of devices that use them, such as lithium batteries, gas sensors, fuel cells, supercapacitors and electrochromic displays. These electrochemical devices are becoming pervasive in our technologically driven lifestyles.The book includes research activities being carried out in the new millennium, through special keynote addresses, as well as invited and contributed papers, related to experimental and theoretical modeling in solid sta

Solid state electronics --- Semiconductors --- Ions --- Intermediates (Chemistry) --- Matter --- Physics --- Solution (Chemistry) --- Electrolysis --- Electrons --- Properties

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Hollow cathodes. --- Ions. --- Double layer. --- Plasmas (physics) --- Electric propulsion. --- Ion engines.

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This textbook is intended as an introduction to the physics of solar and stellar coronae, emphasizing kinetic plasma processes. It is addressed to observational astronomers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduates without a ba- ground in plasma physics. Coronal physics is today a vast field with many different aims and goals. So- ing out the really important aspects of an observed phenomenon and using the physics best suited for the case is a formidable problem. There are already several excellent books, oriented toward the interests of astrophysicists, that deal with the magnetohydrodynamics of stellar atmospheres, radiation transport, and radiation theory. In kinetic processes, the different particle velocities play an important role. This is the case when particle collisions can be neglected, for example in very brief phenomena – such as one period of a high-frequency wave – or in effects produced by energetic particles with very long collision times. Some of the most persistent problems of solar physics, like coronal heating, shock waves, flare energy release, and particle acceleration, are likely to be at least partially related to such p- cesses. Study of the Sun is not regarded here as an end in itself, but as the source of information for more general stellar applications. Our understanding of stellar processes relies heavily, in turn, on our understanding of solar processes. Thus an introduction to what is happening in hot, dilute coronae necessarily starts with the plasma physics of our nearest star.

Stars --- Plasma astrophysics. --- Plasma dynamics. --- Particle beams. --- Corona. --- Sun --- Planetology. --- Nuclear physics. --- Plasma Physics. --- Astrophysics and Astroparticles. --- Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons. --- Atomic nuclei --- Atoms, Nuclei of --- Nucleus of the atom --- Physics --- Planetary sciences --- Planetology --- Plasma (Ionized gases). --- Astrophysics. --- Heavy ions. --- Ions --- Astronomical physics --- Astronomy --- Cosmic physics --- Gaseous discharge --- Gaseous plasma --- Magnetoplasma --- Ionized gases

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Prominent progress in science is inevitably associated with controversies. Thus, young researchers, in particular, have to learn how to persevere during the period of controversy and struggle for acceptance. Unfortunately, the skills needed are not taught in textbooks or monographs, which mostly describe the consensus of contemporary experts. This book, which is based on my own experiences as a scientist, describes the history of the progress made in auroral science and magnetospheric physics by providing examples of ideas, controversies, struggles, acceptance, and success in some instances. Although no general methodology (if any exists) is mentioned, I hope that the reader will learn about the history of progress in auroral science and examples (right or wrong) of dealing with the controversies.

Auroras. --- Physical geography. --- Nuclear physics. --- Astrophysics and Astroparticles. --- Geophysics/Geodesy. --- Atmospheric Sciences. --- Nuclear Physics, Heavy Ions, Hadrons. --- Atomic nuclei --- Atoms, Nuclei of --- Nucleus of the atom --- Physics --- Geography --- Astrophysics. --- Geophysics. --- Atmospheric sciences. --- Heavy ions. --- Ions --- Atmospheric sciences --- Earth sciences --- Atmosphere --- Geological physics --- Terrestrial physics --- Astronomical physics --- Astronomy --- Cosmic physics --- Aurora australis --- Aurora borealis --- Northern lights --- Polar lights --- Atmospheric physics