TY - CHAP AU - Jonas Mazeika ED - Pavel Tsvetkov Y1 - 2010-08-17 PY - 2010 T1 - Carbon-14 in Terrestrial and Aquatic Environment of Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant: Sources of Production, Releases and Dose Estimates N2 - The world of the twenty first century is an energy consuming society. Due to increasing population and living standards, each year the world requires more energy and new efficient systems for delivering it. Furthermore, the new systems must be inherently safe and environmentally benign. These realities of today's world are among the reasons that lead to serious interest in deploying nuclear power as a sustainable energy source. Today's nuclear reactors are safe and highly efficient energy systems that offer electricity and a multitude of co-generation energy products ranging from potable water to heat for industrial applications. The goal of the book is to show the current state-of-the-art in the covered technical areas as well as to demonstrate how general engineering principles and methods can be applied to nuclear power systems. BT - Nuclear Power SP - Ch. 14 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.83893 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.83893 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -