Overview
- Examines key aspects of international cooperation aimed at enhancing nuclear safety, security, safeguards, and non-proliferation
- Addresses political, institutional, and legal dimensions
- Considers how scientific developments can contribute to increased effectiveness in the implementation of international regimes
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Springer Proceedings in Physics (SPPHY, volume 172)
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Table of contents (7 papers)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- EU Member State on the evolution of Nuclear Safety
- EU perspective on nuclear safety
- IAEA Nuclear Safeguards
- Nuclear Energy in the Amaldi conference
- Nuclear Non-proliferation
- Nuclear Safeguards
- Nuclear Security update
- Nuclear safety update
- Role of scientific community for nuclear safety
- Scientists for the global security
- The Fukushima accident
About this book
This book, comprising contributions presented at the XIX Edoardo Amaldi Conference, examines important aspects of international cooperation aimed at enhancing nuclear safety, security, safeguards (the “3S”), and non-proliferation, thereby assisting in the development and maintenance of the verification regime and progress toward a nuclear weapon-free world. The Conference served as a forum where eminent scientists, diplomats, and policymakers could compare national perspectives and update international collaborations. The book opens by addressing the political, institutional, and legal dimensions of the 3S and non-proliferation; current challenges are discussed and attempts made to identify possible solutions and future improvements. Subsequent sections consider scientific developments that can contribute to increased effectiveness in the implementation of international regimes, particularly in critical areas, technology foresight, and the ongoing evaluation of current capabilities.The closing sections discuss scientific and technical challenges to the effective implementation of the 3S approach and the role of international cooperation and scientific community actions in leading the world toward peace and security.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Luciano Maiani holds the Enrico Fermi Chair at Sapienza University of Rome and is a former Director General of CERN. Prof. Maiani predicted the existence and properties of charged particles (GIM mechanism) crucial to the formulation of a gauge theory of electroweak interactions. Currently, his work is focused on the formation of quark–gluon plasma in heavy ion collisions. Prof. Maiani chaired the XIX Edoardo Amaldi Conference.
Said Abousahl is Head of the Nuclear Safety and Security Unit, European Commission – Joint Research Centre (JRC), and is responsible for the work program implemented by the JRC institutes (monitoring and evaluation) in the field of nuclear safety, security, safeguards, and non-proliferation. Dr. Abousahl was Co-Chair of the XIX Edoardo Amaldi Conference.
Wolfango Plastino is Scientific Coordinator in the framework of the virtual Data Exploitation Centre (vDEC) of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) for testingand evaluation of algorithms and datasets in support of the verification mission on radionuclide event screening categorization for the International Monitoring System (IMS) and International Noble Gas Experiment (INGE). Prof. Plastino was Scientific Secretary of the XIX Edoardo Amaldi Conference.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Cooperation for Enhancing Nuclear Safety, Security, Safeguards and Non-proliferation
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the XIX Edoardo Amaldi Conference, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, Italy, March 30-31, 2015
Editors: Luciano Maiani, Said Abousahl, Wolfango Plastino
Series Title: Springer Proceedings in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24322-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-24320-7Published: 23 October 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-37094-1Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-24322-1Published: 15 October 2015
Series ISSN: 0930-8989
Series E-ISSN: 1867-4941
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIV, 125
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Security Science and Technology, Nuclear Energy, Societal Aspects of Physics, Outreach and Education, International Relations
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