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    Nuclear Disasters & The Built Environment: A Report to the Royal Institute of British Architects
    Nuclear Disasters & The Built Environment: A Report to the Royal Institute of British Architects
    Nuclear Disasters & The Built Environment: A Report to the Royal Institute of British Architects
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    Nuclear Disasters & The Built Environment: A Report to the Royal Institute of British Architects

    By Philip Steadman and Simon Hodgkinson

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    Nuclear Disasters & the Built Environment discusses the effects of nuclear disasters on the built environment. The book is comprised of 10 chapters that are organized into three parts. Part I provides an introductory discourse and covers nuclear reactions and radiation. Part II discusses nuclear reactor accidents; this part tackles several concerns such as nuclear safety and risk; contamination of urban areas; and emergency planning. Part III deals with topics concerning nuclear war, such as nuclear weapons, damages, and consequences. The text will be of great interest to readers concerned with the implication of the use of nuclear technology.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherElsevier Science
    Release dateOct 22, 2013
    ISBN9781483106229
    Nuclear Disasters & The Built Environment: A Report to the Royal Institute of British Architects
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    Philip Steadman

    Philip Steadman is Emeritus Professor of Urban and Built Form Studies at UCL. He trained as an architect, and has taught at Cambridge University and the Open University. He has published several books on geometry in architecture, of which the most recent is Why Are Most Buildings Rectangular? (2018). In 2001 he published Vermeer’s Camera, on the Dutch painter’s use of the camera obscura.

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