Nuclear Technology Review — Update 2005

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Contents

Forty-ninth regular session1

Executive Summary.1

A. Atomic and Nuclear Data.3

B. Power Applications.4

B.1. Nuclear Power Today.4

B.2. The Future7

B.2.1. Updated medium-term projections.7

B.2.2. Sustainable development and climate change.8

B.2.3. Current issues9

B.2.4. Resources.13

B.2.5. Advanced fission and fusion.14

C. Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture15

C.1. Sustainable Land Management and Water-Use Efficiency15

C.2. Crop Improvement16

C.3. Crop Protection.17

C.4. Improving Livestock Productivity and Health18

C.5. Food Safety and Safety of Plant and Animal Products.18

D. Human Health.18

D.1. Nutrition18

D.2. Nuclear Medicine.19

D.3. Radiotherapy19

D.4. Dosimetry and Medical Radiation Physics.20

E. Water Resources.21

F. Marine and Terrestrial Environments22

F.1. Marine Environment.22

F.1.1. Radiotracing contaminants in seafoods.22

F.1.2. Isotopic tracing of the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) phenomenon.22

F.1.3. Disequilibria in natural radionuclides track carbon sinks in the ocean interior22

F.2. Terrestrial Environment23

F.2.1. Radioecological studies.23

G. Research Reactor Utilization24

H. Accelerator Utilization.25

I. Industrial Process Monitoring.25

I.1. Radiation Processing - Nanotechnology26