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Fri Jul 07 10:57:48 2000

There is one more piece of unfinished business.
It is our position on the edge of a total end
to civilised existence on the planet, perhaps of life itself.
Available are the nuclear weapons which could do precisely this.
And there is a strong commitment to keeping
and protecting these weapons even though we fully realise the threat.
As long as we accept them in nuclear countries,
we are limited in our ability to persuade others to a policy of sanity and survival.

John Kenneth Galbraith
in a lecture on "The Two Greatest Unfinished Tasks of the Century,"
upon receiving an honorary doctorate
from the London School of Economics.

(Source: New Straits Times Malaysia, Monday, 12 July 1999)

  Guide for Students and Teachers 

The first commercial nuclear power plant in the world at the Institute of Physics and Power Engineering in Obninsk, Russia.

To assist students and teachers, especially those undertaking class projects concerning the technology and utilisation of nuclear energy for power generation, the management and disposal of radioactive waste, the characteristics and effects of use of nuclear weapons, and other, more general issues concerning the utilisation of nuclear technology in various human activities, a list of websites featuring Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) are listed below:

 NUCLEAR ENERGY & NUCLEAR SAFETY:

  NUCLEAR ENERGY BASICS
Website maintained by the Nuclear Energy Institute, USA.
 
  NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE
description of the various processes in the production of nuclear fuel, from uranium mining and conversion, through fuel fabrication,
to their use in power plants and nuclear spent fuel reprocessing,
and the treatment and final disposal of treated nuclear wastes.
 
  URANIUM INFORMATION CENTRE
For extensive and detailed information on uranium
by the Uranium Information Centre Ltd of Australia.
 
  FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT NUCLEAR ENERGY
This page, which is maintained by Professor John McCarthy of Stanford University, discusses nuclear energy as a part of a more general discussion of why human material progress is sustainable and should be sustained. Energy is one of the questions considered.
 
  NUCLEAR REACTION FAQ by Dr. Charles Till
These Q & A's are from an interview with Dr. Charles Till,
a nuclear physicist and Associate Lab Director
at Argonne National Laboratory West in Idaho, USA.
 
  NUCLEAR FAQ by Dr. Jeremy Whitlock
This website is an unofficial and privately-maintained list
of Frequently-Asked Questions (FAQ's)
regarding CANDU reactors and nuclear power generation in Canada.
It is designed to meet general as well as technical interest needs.
 
  NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS & THE Y2K BUG
Website maintained by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, USA.
 
  THE NUCLEAR ENERGY OPTION IN MALAYSIA
For more information on the potential need for and use
of nuclear energy for electricity generation in Malaysia.
 
  NUCLEAR ENERGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
For more information on the relationship and effects
of the use of nuclear energy on the environment.
 
  INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR EVENT SCALE
For more information on the scale used to grade the degree of nuclear accidents and other safety-related events.

 NUCLEAR AND RADIOACTIVE WASTE:

  RADWASTE.ORG
An extensive guide to nuclear and radioactive waste resources available on the Internet.
 
  RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT ISSUES IN MALAYSIA
For more information on the sources
and management of radioactive waste in Malaysia.

 NUCLEAR TRANSPORT SAFETY:

  ENVIRONMENTAL DANGERS OF NUCLEAR TRANSPORT
From the N-Base Nuclear Information Service,
a database of newspaper articles on the UK nuclear industry,
reprocessing and plutonium production at Sellafield and Dounreay, nuclear transports, waste, pollution,
and other environment and health issues.

 NUCLEAR WEAPONS:

  NUCLEAR WEAPONS FAQ by Carey Sublette
This website provides a convenient survey
of the fundamentals of nuclear weapons,
including summaries of key information, grouped as follows:

1.0 Types of Nuclear Weapons
2.0 Introduction to Nuclear Weapon Physics and Design
3.0 Matter, Energy, and Radiation Hydrodynamics
4.0 Engineering and Design of Nuclear Weapons
5.0 Effects of Nuclear Explosions
6.0 Nuclear Materials
7.0 Nuclear Weapon Nations and Arsenals
8.0 The First Nuclear Weapons
9.0 Hiroshima and Nagasaki
10.0 Chronology For The Origin Of Atomic Weapons
11.0 Questions and Answers
12.0 Useful Tables
 
  NUCLEAR WEAPON DIAGRAMS By Richard K. Brown
The designs appearing on this website
are a mixture of reasonable illustrations of design principles,
and speculative designs of either highly hypothetical weapon concepts or of actual weapons. Most of the illustrations and much of the text were taken from Weapons of Tomorrow
by Brian Beckett (Plenum Press, 1983).
 
  NUCLEAR WEAPON FAQ
Website maintained by the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, USA.
 
  MALAYSIA'S VIEWS ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS
For more information on the Malaysia's views on,
and role in addressing the problem of the continued existence of nuclear weapons in the world.
 
  NUCLEAR WEAPON TESTING: A REVIEW OF ISSUES
by Jamal Khaer Ibrahim,
a MINT Review Report dated October 1995.
 
  TECHNICAL ASPECTS OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS: A REVIEW
by Jamal Khaer Ibrahim,
a lecture delivered at
the Malaysian Armed Forces Staff College,
on 21 May 1987.

 NUCLEAR MEDICINE:

  NUCLEAR MEDICINE FAQ
Website maintained by the White Plains Hospital Center, USA. 
  NUCLEAR MEDICINE FAQ
Website maintained by Nuclear Imaging of Texas, USA.
 

 RADIOACTIVITY & NUCLEAR RADIATION:

  RADIATION LESSONS FROM HIROSHIMA AND CHERNOBYL
From the "WhyFiles: Science Behind the News" website
maintained by the University of Wisconsin-Madison
and founded by the National Institute for Science Education (NISE)
and the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the USA.
 
  RADIOACTIVE FACTS
Also from the "WhyFiles: Science Behind the News" website.
 
  ICE FISHING FOR NEUTRINOS
Also from the "WhyFiles: Science Behind the News" website.

 
 NUCLEAR FUSION:

  FUSION ENERGY OVERVIEW
Website maintained by the United States Department of Energy. 
  FUSION ENERGY
Fusion Energy Educational website.
 

 FOOD IRRADIATION:

  FROM REACTOR TO REFRIGERATOR
From the "WhyFiles: Science Behind the News" website
maintained by the University of Wisconsin-Madison
and founded by the National Institute for Science Education (NISE)
and the National Science Foundation (NSF) of the USA.

 NUCLEAR HISTORY:

  NUCLEAR AGE TIMELINE
This timeline, maintained by the United States Department of Energy, traces the nuclear age from the discovery of x-rays and radioactivity to the explosion of the first atomic bomb through the cold war to its thaw to the cleanup of the nuclear weapons complex. This publication gives you a brief explanation of events on the timeline plus a guide for further reading and classroom resources.
 
  THE NUCLEAR FILES
Explore the Nuclear Age and its political and ethical dilemmas at the Nuclear Files, a project of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation.

 MODEL UNITED NATIONS:

  MODEL UNITED NATIONS AT THE REAL UNITED NATIONS
The Model United Nations is a simulation of the United Nations system. Students assume the roles of ambassadors to the United Nations and debate current global issues. Participants seek ways, through diplomacy and negotiation, in which the world community can deal with complex global concerns such as the environment, economic development, refugees, AIDS, conflict resolution, disarmament and human rights. Young people from diverse backgrounds participate in these educational exercises to experience first-hand decision-making processes and diplomatic work at the United Nations.
 
  UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION OF THE USA
The United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan national organization dedicated to enhancing U.S. participation in the United Nations system and to strengthening that system as it seeks to define and carry out its mission. UNA-USA抯 action agenda uniquely combines education and public research, substantive policy analysis, advocacy, and ongoing U.S.-U.N. dialogue.
 
  LINKS TO MODEL UN CONFERENCES OUTSIDE THE USA 
  LINKS TO MODEL UN CONFERENCES IN THE USA 

Links to other sources of information can be found on the following pages:

  International Organizations & Multilateral Fora 
  Strategic & Policy Think-Tanks & Journals 
  Non-Governmental & Industry Organizations 
  Technological, Economic and Historical Databases  
  Policy Positions of National Governments  
  Global & Local News Organizations  

Or search the MINT Web for relevant information using specific keywords or phrases, such as "nuclear energy," "nuclear waste," "nuclear weapons," etc: