Nuclear Facilities Licensing: A Word More

Lessons learnt from ITER safety & licensing for DEMO and future nuclear fusion facilities

Bertrand’s Paradox Revisited: More Lessons about that Ambiguous Word, Random

The Bertrand paradox question is: “Consider a unit-radius circle for which the length of a side of an inscribed equilateral triangle equals 3 . Determine the probability that the length of a ‘random’ chord of a unit-radius circle has length greater than 3 .” Bertrand derived three different ‘correct’ answers, the correctness depending on interpretation of the word, random. Here we employ geomet...

Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities

clusters and nuclear facilities :

by Joel I. Cehn R«Leports of clusters of cases of disease, allegedly resulting from exposure to ionizing radiation, frequently appear in the press. To the laymen, these reports are difficult to interpret and are often frightening. How do we evaluate such reports? A cluster of disease cases refers to what appears to be an unusual increase in the number of cases. Such clusters can occur either in...

Compulsory licensing of technology and the essential facilities doctrine

We look at compulsory licensing of intellectual property as remedy for anti-competitive practice. We identify aspects of intellectual property that warrants a different remedy from those using general definitions and remedies for essential facility. Based on the analysis, we present a characterisation of optimal compulsory licensing for a simple market. ∗Department of Economics, University of A...