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10.2.3 Technical History and Developments

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10.4.4 Alpha Radiation

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Chapter 10 : Nuclear Power Plant

10.1 Introduction
10.2 General History and Trends
10.2.1 Major Events
10.2.2 What Might Change the Current Situation ?

10.5 Ethical Problems in Nuclear Power Regulation

10.6 Chemical and Nuclear Equations
10.7 Nuclear Fusion and Fission
10.7.1 Fusion
10.7.2 Fission
10.8 Energy From Fission and Fuel Burn Up
10.9 Radioactivity
10.10 Nuclear Reactor
10.10.1 Parts of a Nuclear Reactor
10.10.2 Nuclear Fuel

10.10.10 Reactor Core

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10.16.1 Importance of Heavy Water

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10.23 Safety Measures for Nuclear Power Plants

10.24 Site Selection and Commissioning Procedure
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11.6 Essential Features of a Water-Power Plant
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10.26.4 Accident/Safety Plans

10.26.5 Evacuation
10.27 Safety Problems in Chernobyl Reactor Design
10.27.1 System Dynamics
10.27.2 Another Safety Problem with the Design
10.28 Other, Earlier, Soviet Nuclear Accidents
Chapter 11 : Hydro-Electric Power Plants

11.8.2 Run-of-River Power Plants