A Holistic Approach to Radiological Terrorism
Radionuclide Half life Particle emission Polonium (Po210 84) 138.4 days α of 5.31 MeV and γ of 0.8 MeV Radium (Ra226 88) 1,600 years α of 4.78 MeV and γ of 0.6 MeV Plutonium (Pu238 94)…
SCK•CEN’S Activities in the Field of CBRN Risk Mitigation: Practical Contributions to Improving Nuclear Security Governance
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015Samuel Apikyan and David Diamond (eds.)Nuclear Threats and Security ChallengesNATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics10.1007/978-94-017-9894-5_10 10. SCK•CEN’S Activities in the Field of CBRN Risk Mitigation:…
Risk Informing Security at the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015Samuel Apikyan and David Diamond (eds.)Nuclear Threats and Security ChallengesNATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics10.1007/978-94-017-9894-5_9 9. Risk Informing Security at the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission…
NATO Nuclear Policy, the Ukraine Crisis, and the Wales Summit
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015Samuel Apikyan and David Diamond (eds.)Nuclear Threats and Security ChallengesNATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics10.1007/978-94-017-9894-5_8 8. NATO Nuclear Policy, the Ukraine Crisis, and the Wales…
Overview of the Cooperative Projects Implemented by the European Commission Joint Research Centre in the Nuclear Security Area Outside Europe
Project Beneficiary A Improvement of accountancy and control of hold-up and waste in RT-1 plant at Mayak Russia B Establishment of testing laboratory at VNIIA for certification of NMAC…
Proliferation Resistance and Physical Protection (PR&PP) Evaluation Methodology and Applications
Fig. 5.1 Basic framework for the PR&PP evaluation methodology The challenges to the NESs are the threats posed by potential proliferant States and by sub-national adversaries. The technical and institutional…
GAO: Two Decades Evaluating the Impact and Effectiveness of U.S. Nuclear and Radiological Material Security Programs
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015Samuel Apikyan and David Diamond (eds.)Nuclear Threats and Security ChallengesNATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics10.1007/978-94-017-9894-5_1 1. GAO: Two Decades Evaluating the Impact and Effectiveness of…
Neutralizing Radicalized Threat Networks, Disrupting WMD Illicit Traffickers and Targeting Corrupt Facilitators
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015Samuel Apikyan and David Diamond (eds.)Nuclear Threats and Security ChallengesNATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics10.1007/978-94-017-9894-5_2 2. Neutralizing Radicalized Threat Networks, Disrupting WMD Illicit Traffickers and…
To Pursue an Independent Nuclear Deterrent or Not? Japan’s and South Korea’s Nuclear Decision Making Models
© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015Samuel Apikyan and David Diamond (eds.)Nuclear Threats and Security ChallengesNATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics10.1007/978-94-017-9894-5_3 3. To Pursue an Independent Nuclear Deterrent or Not? Japan’s…
Outside the Box: Alternative Binding Sites in the Ligand Binding Domain of Nuclear Receptors
Fig. 1 The AR-LBD used as an example to represent location of alternative binding sites of NRs. Standard view of AR-LBD followed by − 90° turn on x-axis and + 90° turn on…
