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Chemical Industry and Nuclear Power Plants Technology
FCH-BCO_TCPAcad. year: 2009/2010
Basic raw-materials and chemical industry sources. Reactors and chemical industry apparatuses. Chemical productions typical by special breakdown and related risks. Safety proceeding for transport of dangerous substances and goods. Nuclear equipments characteristics. Buildings and operating complexes witch nuclear reactor is part of. Used reactor types. Storage plants for radioactive waste.
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2. Reactors and apparatusses of chemical industry
3. Chemical productions with potential breakdowns and risks connections with them
4. Safety precautions by the transport of dangerous chemicals and goods
5. Classes by the transport of chemicals and goods by the Agreement ADR and RID
6. Characteristic of the nuclear equipments mainly nuclear power stations
7. Buildings and operation complexes with nuclear reactor
8. Types of nowadays used nuclear reactors
9. Safety of nuclear reactors – Tshernobyl syndrom
10. Storage and reprocessing plants for radioactive wastes
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Basic literature
Moldan B.: Ekologická dimenze udržitelného rozvoje, Karolinum, Praha 2001 (CS)
Shafer D.A.: Hazardous Materials Characterization, Wiley, New York 2006 (CS)
Recommended reading
LaGrega M.D., Buckingham P.L., Evans J.C.: Hazardous Waste Management, McGraw-Hill, London 2001 (CS)
Urban P.G., Pitt M.J.: Handbook of Reactive Chemical Hazards, Elsevier, Amsterodam 2007 (CS)
Walker C.H.: Organic Pollutants, Taylor and Francis Publishing, London 2001 (CS)
Wang L.K., Hung Y.T., Lo H.H.: Hazardous Industrial Waste Treatment, CRC Press, Boca raton 2007 (CS)
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