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Meanwhile AECL and other Canadian departnents and agencies are participating actively in the International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation (INFCE) to study all fuel cycle options. No decisions on expansion of the present research level on thorium fuels will be taken until information from INFCE has been evaluated by the Canadian Government. 

Nuclear Quadrupole Resonance Spectra Database, Japan Association for International Chemical Information, Tokyo (2003). 

Interest now is centered on the thorium cycle (23) and laboratory studies have continued to investigate both an adaptation of the Thorex process to CANDU fuel and the application of the amine process to recovering uranium-233 from irradiated thorium. The program to develop and fully demonstrate the thorium fuel cycle has been outlined, and would require about 25 years to complete. However, the current research level will not be expanded until a decision can be taken by the Canadian Government when the information from the current International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation has been assessed. 

Almost all quadrupolar nuclei in the Periodic Table have been studied experimentally in one or more of their compounds. A current list 0f these results is available in a database published by the JAICI (Japan Association for International Chemical Information, Tokyo, Japan). Biennial International Symposia on nuclear quadrupole interactions are also excellent sources of the latest experimental and theoretical works. As an illustration of the kind of solid-state problems that may be studied, we give some recent examples of such investigations. Sensitivity. or signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in WQR spectroscopy, as well as NMR, depends on the observed frequency, which in turn, depends, inter alia, on the value of Q. The lighter elements tend to have low values of Q and low NQR frequencies and low sensitivities. for example, a... 

Well-trained, safety-conscious workers are essential for safe operation of a nuclear power plant. Under the Soviet system, reactor personnel often worked in isolation from their counterparts at other plants and from the international nuclear community, hindering the exchange of information, skills, and lessons learned. 

This account is based on the information provided by the USSR to the IAEA post-accident review meeting in Vienna on 25-29 August 1986, the report of the IAEA International Nuclear Safety Advisory Group and the UKAEA report The Chernobyl Accident and its Consequences Eurther information has become available more recently through the NEA and IAEA and this has also been incorporated. 

INES International Nuclear Event Scale INES is an information system operated by IAEA to inform the public about safety related events in nuclear power plants (IAEA 2001) http //www-news.iaea.org/news/... 

IAEA (2011). A framework for an integrated risk informed decision making process a report by the International Nuclear Safety Group, INSAG series, ISSN 1025-2169, No 25, International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria. 

The operating organization should provide information on the status of the plant to the public in a regular and timely manner. The pnbUc should be informed of any significant event on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES) [4] and of any enforcement action taken by the plant. 

Data collection procedures must be established to capture the required information. Various methods have been proposed for collecting such data, including a draft international standard that provides criteria for collecting data in nuclear power plants.i These criteria are also useful in developing methodologies for collection of data within the CPI. Smith and Babb provide additional information beyond that presented in this book. 

The use of computer simulations to study internal motions and thermodynamic properties is receiving increased attention. One important use of the method is to provide a more fundamental understanding of the molecular information contained in various kinds of experiments on these complex systems. In the first part of this paper we review recent work in our laboratory concerned with the use of computer simulations for the interpretation of experimental probes of molecular structure and dynamics of proteins and nucleic acids. The interplay between computer simulations and three experimental techniques is emphasized (1) nuclear magnetic resonance relaxation spectroscopy, (2) refinement of macro-molecular x-ray structures, and (3) vibrational spectroscopy. The treatment of solvent effects in biopolymer simulations is a difficult problem. It is not possible to study systematically the effect of solvent conditions, e.g. added salt concentration, on biopolymer properties by means of simulations alone. In the last part of the paper we review a more analytical approach we have developed to study polyelectrolyte properties of solvated biopolymers. The results are compared with computer simulations. 

Much of the Pt Mossbauer work performed so far has been devoted to studies of platinum metal and alloys in regard to nuclear properties (magnetic moments and lifetimes) of the excited Mossbauer states of Pt, lattice dynamics, electron density, and internal magnetic field at the nuclei of Pt atoms placed in various magnetic hosts. The observed changes in the latter two quantities, li/ (o)P and within a series of platinum alloys are particularly informative about the conduction electron delocalization and polarization. 

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