Advances in Nuclear Science and Technology

Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow, 2002, 209 pp. - ISBN: 0-306-45184-0 The editors have pleasure in presenting this volume of our review series. We have specialised in three areas: perturbation Monte Carlo, non-linear kinetics and the transfer of radioactive fluids in rocks. Contents. Contraction of Information and Its Inverse Problems in Reactor System Identification and Stochastic Diagnosis – (K. Kishida)...

Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow, 2002, 333 pp. - ISBN: 0-306-45515-3 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? Contents. Chernobyl and Bhopal Ten Years on – (M.C. Grimston)....

Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow, 2002, 302 pp. - ISBN: 0-306-45604-4 Contents Childhood Leukaemia and Radiation: The Sellafield Judgment – (E.J. Tawn and R. Wakeford). Reactor Dynamics from Monte Carlo Calculations – (T.E. Valentine). Notes on a Simplified Tour: From the Fourier to the Wavelet Transform – (M. Marseguerra). Genetic Algorithms for Incore Fuel Management and Other Recent Developments in Optim...

Kluwer Academic Publishers, New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow, 2002, 183 pp. - ISBN: 0-30646110-2 Contents. Leukaemia and nuclear establishments: fifteen years of research – (M.С. Grimston) Nonlinear Stochastic Dynamics And Instability Theory – (H. Konno). Modeling bacterial transport and accumulation processes in saturated porous material: a review – (T.P. Clement, B.M. Peyton, T.R. Ginn and R.S. Skeen). A review of crack arrest conce...