This edition builds on earlier traditions in providing broad subject-area coverage, application of theory to practical aspects of commercial nuclear power, and use of instructional objectives. Like the first edition, it focuses on what distinguishes nuclear engineering from the other engineering disciplines. However, this edition includes reorganization and overall update of descriptions of reactor designs and fuel-cycle steps, and more emphasis on reactor safety, especially related to technical and management lessons learned from the TMI-2 and Chernobyl - 4 accidents.
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This book is a comprehensive overview of nuclear engineering topics. It is that ONE book if you must rely on just one. It is similar to the Glasstone book but newer and with better text. The explanations in the Reactor Physics and Kinetics chapters are great and easy to understand. I wish I'd had this book as an undergraduate; that Reactor Analysis course would have been much more understandable!
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After studying this chapter, the reader should be able to: 1. Describe the atom, including the constituent parts and their relationships. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
reactivity penalty, core protective system, linear heat rate, point kinetics equations, reactivity inventory, engineered safety systems, excess core reactivity, inhour equation, xenon oscillations, moderator volume, void feedback, reference reactors, clad melting, shutdown margin, core disruptive accidents, blanket assemblies, control rod withdrawal, radioactivity removal, fertile nuclides, reactivity insertion, excess multiplication, fuel pins, burnable poisons, poison rods, nuclear criticality safety Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, Department of Energy, Selected Bibliography, General Electric, Monte Carlo, General Bibliography, Numerical Problems, Objectives After, Chart of the Nuclides, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Nuclear Engineering International, International Atomic Energy Agency, Three Mile Island, Nuclear News, Appropriate Sections, Combustion Engineering, Nuclear Power Plant Design Analysis, Nucleonics Week, Peach Bottom, Book Company, Federal Republic of Germany, Los Alamos, Yucca Mountain New!
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After studying this chapter, the reader should be able to: 1. Describe the atom, including the constituent parts and their relationships. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
reactivity penalty, core protective system, linear heat rate, point kinetics equations, reactivity inventory, engineered safety systems, excess core reactivity, inhour equation, xenon oscillations, moderator volume, void feedback, reference reactors, clad melting, shutdown margin, core disruptive accidents, blanket assemblies, control rod withdrawal, radioactivity removal, fertile nuclides, reactivity insertion, excess multiplication, fuel pins, burnable poisons, poison rods, nuclear criticality safety Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, United Kingdom, Soviet Union, Department of Energy, Selected Bibliography, General Electric, Monte Carlo, General Bibliography, Numerical Problems, Objectives After, Chart of the Nuclides, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Nuclear Engineering International, International Atomic Energy Agency, Three Mile Island, Nuclear News, Appropriate Sections, Combustion Engineering, Nuclear Power Plant Design Analysis, Nucleonics Week, Peach Bottom, Book Company, Federal Republic of Germany, Los Alamos, Yucca Mountain New!
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- Nuclear Power Technology: Volume 3: Nuclear Radiation by W. Marshall on page 543, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Nuclear Reactor Engineering: Reactor Design Basics/Reactor Systems Engineering by Samuel Glasstone on page 85, and page 87
- Radioactive Waste Management: Proceedings of an International Conference on Radioactive Waste Management Held by the International Atomic Energy Age ... Atomic Energy Agency Proceedings Series) by International Atomic Energy Agency in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Accident at Three Mile Island: The Need for Change, the Legacy of Tmi by John G. Kemeny on page 444, and Back Matter
- Introduction to Nuclear Power by Geoffrey Hewitt on page 195, and Back Matter
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- Nuclear Reactor Physics by Weston M. Stacey on 6 pages
- Nuclear Energy, Fifth Edition: An Introduction to the Concepts, Systems, and Applications of Nuclear Processes by Raymond Murray on page 12, and page 145
- Nuclear engineering : theory and technology of commercial nuclear power by Ronald Allen Knief in Back Matter
- Fundamentals of Nuclear Science and Engineering by J. Kenneth Shultis on page 344
- Environmental Technology Handbook: 2nd Edition (Applied Energy Technology Series) by James G Speight on page 67
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