ADVANCES IN NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
CHILDHOOD LEUKAEMIA AND RADIATION: THE SELLAFIELD JUDGMENT 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 REACTOR DYNAMICS FROM MONTE CARLO CALCULATIONS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 NOTES ON A SIMPLIFIED TOUR: FROM THE FOURIER TO THE WAVELET TRANSFORM 1 2 3 4 5 6 INTRODUCTION CHILDHOOD LEUKAEMIA AROUND NUCLEAR INSTALLATIONS THE GARDNER REPORT THE LEGAL CASES THE NATURE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY BACKGROUND TO THE GARDNER HYPOTHESIS AND SUBSEQUENT FINDINGS RADIATION GENETIC RISK GENETIC RISK FROM SELLAFIELD OCCUPATIONAL RADIATION EXPOSURE HERITABILITY OF LEUKAEMIA ETIOLOGY AND HETEROGENEITY OF CASES ANIMAL STUDIES DOSE RATE EFFECTS UNCONVENTIONAL GENETIC MECHANISMS THE LEGAL JUDGMENT AND AFTERMATH REFERENCES INTRODUCTION REVIEW OF STATISTICS OF STOCHASTIC PROCESSES REACTOR TRANSFER FUNCTIONS TIME DELAY ESTIMATION MONTE CARLO SIMULATION APPLICATION TO THE ADVANCED NEUTRON SOURCE REACTOR SUMMARY REFERENCES INTRODUCTION PRELIMINARIES THE CONTINUOUS WINDOWED FOURIER TRANSFORM FRAMES THE CONTINUOUS WAVELET TRANSFORM THE DISCRETE WINDOWED FOURIER TRANSFORM THE DISCRETE WAVELET TRANSFORM CONTENTS 7 8 9 THE MULTIRESOLUTION ANALYSIS SUB-BAND FILTERING CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES GENETIC ALGORITHMS FOR INCORE FUEL MANAGEMENT AND OTHER RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN OPTIMISATION 1 2 3 4 5 INTRODUCTION OPTIMISATION PROBLEMS OPTIMISATION ALGORITHMS FOR COMBINATORIAL OPTIMISATION OPTIMISATION METHODS FOR CONTINUUM PROBLEMS CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES APPENDIX: GRAY CODING THE COMPUTERIZATION OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANT CONTROL ROOMS 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 INTRODUCTION HUMAN-MACHINE INTERFACE COMPUTERIZATION IN NUCLEAR POWER PLANT CONTROL ROOMS SAFETY AND LICENSING IMPLEMENTATION AND MAINTENANCE ISSUES FUTURE TRENDS CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES CONSEQUENCES OF CHERNOBYL: A VIEW TEN YEARS ON 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 INTRODUCTION THE ACCIDENT AREA POLLUTION CREATION OF THE SARCOPHAGUS: ITS ADVANTAGES AND SHORTCOMINGS RESEARCH ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATED WITH THE SARCOPHAGUS WHAT IS THE THREAT FROM THE SARCOPHAGUS? NECESSITY AND STRATEGY FOR THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE SARCOPHAGUS REMEDIATION OF CONTAMINATED AREAS MEDICAL CONSEQUENCES: RESIDENCE IN THE CONTAMINATED AREAS CONCLUSION REFERENCES DYNAMIC RELIABILITY 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 INTRODUCTION PHYSICAL SETTING THE CHAPMAN-KOLMOGOROV EQUATIONS REDUCED FORMS EXIT PROBLEMS SEMI-MARKOVIAN GENERALIZATION SUBDYNAMICS APPLICATION TO EVENT TREES SEMI NUMERICAL METHODS THE MONTE CARLO METHOD EXAMPLES OF NUMERICAL TREATMENT OF PROBLEMS OF DYNAMIC RELIABILITY CONCLUSIONS REFERENCES