The world inventory of available published literature already contains much of the history and technology of the nuclear energy enterprise over the past 60 years. Many conference proceedings, reports and textbooks are freely available in libraries, a few of which are listed here. Naturally, some information is restricted for reasons of commercial interest.

10.8.1 Owners’ groups

Owners’ groups mentioned in Section 10.6.1 are sharply focused on sustain­ing good performance of their own power plants. These groups encourage joint R&D and education of operating staff. For example, the CANDU group website can be found at COG (2010). Generally, this site offers infor­mation to the owners of CANDU power plants; other examples are AREVA-NP (2010), General Electric (2010), and the Westinghouse Owners’ Group (WOG; unfortunately, no reference available). One general charac­teristic of these groups is that they maintain all or some of their information confidential to group members. This is understandable due to the large commercial interests involved.