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Book "Nuclear Testing in the USSR. Volume 4. The Use of Nuclear Explosions In the Interests of National Economy, and for Applied and Fundamental Research"

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Peaceful nuclear explosive technologies offer a lot of opportunities. Not only the wide public, but also professionals have a vague idea of these. The book publicizes the capabilities of nuclear explosive technologies and their applications in science, engineering and production, and discusses how people can benefit from these.

The thirty-years' history of developed and tested peaceful nuclear explosive technologies has experienced no serious obstacles to their implementation. Along with this, some phenomena and processes of critical importance for industrial accommodation of nuclear explosive technologies have remained understudied, including long-term prediction of conditions of radioactive explosion products.

The book consists of the following sections:

Chapter 1. The Use of Nuclear Explosions in the Interests of National Economy
- The Concept of Peaceful Nuclear Explosions;
- Classification of Soviet Peaceful Nuclear Explosions;
- Engineering Uses of Underground Nuclear Explosions;
- Safety Provisions at Peaceful Nuclear Explosions;
- Some Behavioral Features of Radioactive Substances in Specific Nuclear Explosive Technologies;
- Specific Features of Nuclear Explosive Technologies;
- Nuclear Explosive Technologies as Applied to Global Environmental Problems of the Present-day Civilization;
- Peaceful Nuclear Explosions, and Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons;
- List of Soviet Nuclear Explosions .
Chapter 2. Nuclear Explosions and Scientific Research
- The Use of Shock Waves Produced by Underground Nuclear Explosions To Study Shock-driven Compression of Condensed Matters;
- Air Shock Wave Glow and Velocity Measurements at an Underground Nuclear Explosion ;
- Nuclear Explosion as a Laser Pumping Tool in Laser Fusion Research;
- Neutron Cross-section Measurements at Nuclear Explosions;
- Neutrino Measurements in an Underground Nuclear Explosion;
- Feasibility of Ultra-high Magnetic Field Production at a Nuclear Explosion;
- Studies of Horizontal Earth Nonuniformities Based on Time-of-flight of Longitudinal Waves from Nuclear Explosions;
- Feasibility of Earthquake Initiation By Means of Underground Nuclear Explosions;
- Explosive Deuterium Energy;
- Applicability of Nuclear Explosive Technologies to Earth Protection from Hazardous Space Objects.

The book "Nuclear Testing in the USSR. Volume 4. The Use of Nuclear Explosions in the Interests of National Economy, and for Applied and Fundamental Research" has been prepared by an editorial board consisting of specialists from the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy headed by Member of Academy V.N.Mikhailov, Minister of the Russian Federation for Atomic Energy (1992-1998).

Editorial board:
I.A.Andryushin	N.P.Voloshin	Yu.V.Dubasov	R.I.Ilkaev
V.N.Mikhailov	K.V.Myasnikov	A.K.Chernyshev
Preparation of individual sections of Volume 4:
V.B.Adamsky	V.V.Adushkin	I.A.Andryushin	Ye.K.Bonyushkin
N.P.Voloshin	V.M.Gorbachev	V.F.Dorodnov	Yu.V.Dubasov
O.L.Kedrovsky	V.V.Kirichenko	V.N.Klishin	V.M.Kol'tsov
A.S.Krivokhatsky	Ye.A.Leonov	V.Ye.Marshalkin	V.N.Mokhov
V.I.Musinov	K.V.Myasnikov	Ye.A.Negin	G.A.Nikiforov
V.I.Ovchinnikov	R.S.Osipov	B.V.Pevnitsky	N.K.Prikhod'ko
Ye.V.Samoilov	Yu.N.Smirnov	A.A.Spivak	V.G.Strukov
R.F.Trunin	E.F.Fomushkin	S.A.Kholin	I.F.Turchin
A.K.Chernyshev	S.G.Chukhin	L.N.Shchekin	Yu.A.Yudin
Ye.Ya.Yurin

The book was published in 2001 in RFNC-VNIIEF printing office.